Thesis:

The intense and varied imagining is at times undisciplined, unrelated to the novel's real imaginative logic: in this, as in other ways, the distinction between the narrator and the heroine begins to blur.

Necessary Background:

l  Charlotte Bronte’s first successful novel is all too clearly self-projective, both in its account of the workings of the imagination and in its concern with social demands and tensions.

l  Her letters refer again and again to the compensatory and vicarious role of “the faculty of imagination” in her own dreary life.

 

Works Cited

Gribble, Jennifer. "Jane Eyre's Imagination", Nineteenth Century Fiction, 23:3 (1968), 279-293