Theisis of Imprisonment

In the Victorian novel, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, a major precedent and theme throughout the course of the novel is the developed scheme of imprisonment. Being a female orphan in a caste system whose mother married into to a lower stature was an outcaste from her upper caste family in which the repercussions continued in Jane Eyre’s life through imprisonment. Charlotte Bronte continues this idea from the beginning of Jane’s life at …

…her independence and autonomy. The only reason that equilibrium formed between Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester was the fact that he became an outcaste by his handicap and disfigurements and now no longer of the upper caste. Without the qualities of upper caste and normalness, society and his persona exiled him into the forest. Additionally Jane’s trials would not be as significant in the novel had these disfiguring events occurred earlier to Mr. Rochester.