Two versions of Bildungsromane: Jane Eyre and David Copperfield

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Unlike David Copperfield, for example, Jane does not exactly gain an easy admittance into society through the act of marriage.

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In fact, Jane's experience of social and physical isolation changes drastically throughout the novel and certainly accounts for one of the major shifts which takes place in Jane's overall character development. Let us take Jane's isolation in the red room in chapter II and then juxtapose it with an account of her life at Ferndean at the end of the novel:.

This room was chill, because it seldom had a fire; it was silent, because remote from the nursery and kitchens; solemn, because it was known to be seldom entered. My seat, to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney-piece; the bed rose before me; to my right hand there was a high, dark wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room.

I was not quite sure whether they had locked the door; and, when I dared move, I got up, and went to see. Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed.

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All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: Jane's descriptions of the red room speak of it as a sort of large royal tomb which is also parallel to a kind of alternate universe or hell of sorts. Everything about the room speaks to its deathlike qualities: This above kind of isolation, often paralleled with the fate of Bertha Mason who becomes the iconographic "woman in the attic," acts as an antithesis of Jane's sanctuary at Ferndean.

Rochester, who undergoes a symbolic moral purification in the fire at Thornfield and perhaps is even absolved for his sins when he gains back half of his sight at the end of the novel, can be aligned with the figure of Adam just as Jane asserts herself as a clear descendent of Eve when she states in chapter XXXVIII:. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth.

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I hold myself supremely blest — blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am; ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.

But enough about yours truly. Incidentally, the books in question — mostly 18th-century classics like Roderick Ransom , Tom Jones or Peregrine Pickle — tend to feature rogues and outcasts who are, in due course, successfully assimilated into society.

Two versions of Bildungsromane: Jane Eyre and David Copperfield (E-Book, EPUB)

These picaresque stories were favourites of Dickens too, and a source of literary inspiration, especially in his early work. In books, David finds a source of emotional sustenance, and not just intellectual stimulation.

With the help of its illustrations, this otherwise daunting reading material propels the young girl onto her own reveries. In the process, he betrays the extent of his own loneliness, and his desperate need to connect meaningfully with other people: It might therefore seem peculiar to have dwelt here on its portrayal of reading as an empowering experience. And yet, I would argue, the fictional readers who most readily come to mind tend to be those characters whose better judgment — indeed whose very reason — has been impaired by too much of the wrong kind of fiction: If that really is the case, then with David Copperfield we are most definitely on to a winner.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Reader.

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