Both novels are a heterogeneous collection of the same theme: the spiritual and emotional growth of the heroine. Both novels send forth, political messages traversing feminism idea of one's emancipation. Bronte uses Jane as a figure of female independence, while Sylvia Plath demonstrates her views on civil rights through the narrators' point of view. In this essay I will be examining the childhood events and journeys that both Jane (from chapter 1-4) and the narrator of SPBNS encounters.
             Written in 1840s, set in the 1830s published in 1848, "Jane Eyre" the title provides us no clue as to what the story will be about. Bronte or first known as "Currer Bell" has reflected this novel upon the Victorian era, allowing herself and of Jane confidently rely on one but herself to challenge a very "inferior" status of that period.
             JE opens with a revelation question: "What does Bessie say I have done?" tell us that Jane is someone who is not only very curiosity in life, but also her place in it. Bronte presents Jane's quest to question "elitism", (hence reflects moral sensibility of British Society at the mid-century), as Mrs Reed immediately considered Jane being a "passionate" girl. "...until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent" This inevitably grasp the reader's heartfelt releasing empathy to Jane, as a women then cannot show too much of one's characteristic tone that also includes other non-rational human nature.
             Bronte uses animal imagery to describe Jane as wild and uncivilized. At Gateshead, we quickly discovered that John Reed refers her as "bad animal and rat". John emerges as the dominant male figure and considered Jane is to be his servant and less, menacing her with mental and physical abuse, which later on evidently lead to the book incident. John viciously through the book that Jane was reading at her, st...