![]() ![]() They reveal her great awareness for dreams. When Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield, Rochester takes interest in three watercolor imaginative landscapes she painted while at Lowood school. Jane's dreams thus reveal the raw emotions she attempts to mask in order to be an ideal Victorian lady. Despite her placid exterior, Jane still maintains a wild and active dream life According to Maurianne Adams, Jane even pays "inordinate attention to the details of her dream life" (85). After a turbulent childhood, Jane fulfills a Victorian ideal of womanhood, and grows more graceful and composed as she completes her education. This suppression of day-dreams reflects the trend of Jane learning to suppress her passions over the course of the novel. Fairfax, awakens Jane, Rochester imagines her thinking "My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal," and finding a task to complete to ensure she does not slip back into daydreaming (3.22). ![]() Edward Rochester, Jane's employer at Thornfield, recounts observing her pace around in a day-dream. Despite her distaste for fantasies and inefficiency, the eponymous narrator, Jane, is a frequent day-dreamer. Jane Eyre contains a number of significant dreams and day-dreams. This essay is Part I of Alan Gordon's "Dreams in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea." The second part, which discusses Wide Sargasso Seae, resides on the Postcolonial Web. ![]()
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