Like Charlotte Bronte both William Crimsworth and Jane Eyre encountered hardships early in their lives therefore they sought independence. Crimsworth's need to leave his brother Edward and Hunsden reflected the independence "[sought] by Charlotte in order to pursue her career as a governess."2 Since Bronte's mother died when Charlotte was very young her father allowed their aunt to educate and raise the children until they were old enough to seek a career. Their aunt was a stern woman and "was rather content receiving obedience than affection"3 which is similar to the character of Aunt Reed in Jane Eyre. Although Hunsden did not hold any blood relation to Crimsworth the relationship be

Also reflecting Bronte's life was the concept of her main characters conceiving images as symbols of important events in their lives. The split tree after the storm in Jane Eyre symbolized for Jane the stability of the friendship that existed between her and Rochester. For Bronte it was merely foreshadowing future events in the novel. Still, symbolic elements such as the split tree, in both novels were common in Charlotte's novels. Symbols were techniques used to foreshadow but also a means of formulating the decisions of the main characters. The split tree in Jane Eyre allowed Jane to examine her own motives and question if they still pursued her goals. The red room in Jane Eyre "suggest[ed] violence, enclosure, rebellion and rebirth,"7 a stage Bronte after went through after her sister Anne died. To Bronte the red room was also a symbol of failed love as the room was dark, cold, and it was the place where Jane's uncle died under the care of Aunt Reed. Despite that The Professor didn't carry the same measure of symbols as Jane Eyre and thus didn't produce that same foreshadowing and ironic effect, "Bronte drew heavily on her recent experiences in Brussels [seeking] to disguise this personal element by making her narrator-protagonist a man. . ."8 Perhaps not looked at as a "symbol" or "conceived image," a male narrator was created to hide Charlotte's personal emotions of her lifetime experiences thus, in a way it can be a symbol of the need of privacy imagined by Bronte. Charlotte often incorporated motifs from her Angrian tales because they were her symbolic images that later in her life aided in her decisions regarding her family, romantic r

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