Jane Eyre - Analysis of Nature Charlotte Bronte makes use of nature imagery throughout Jane Eyre, and comments on both the human relationship with the outdoors and human nature. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines "nature" as "1. the phenomena of the physical world as a whole . . . 2. a thing's essential qualities; a person's or animal's innate character . . . 4. vital force, functions, or needs." It will be seen how Jane Eyre comments on all of these. Several natural themes …showed first 75 words of 1403 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1403 total…in the context of the early to mid nineteenth-century. This was of course the time of the Industrial Revolution. People were draining the fens and the flats. For Brontë, this suggests the time in Jane Eyre as something dated, the past more than the future. Jane therefore must leave it in order to remake herself. We see that during the novel Jane obeys nature instead of God, yet she longs to be close to Him.