JE #14

“I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature: I will seek her breast and ask repose” (414). In a time of solitude, with nowhere to go, Jane Eyre seeks for a motherly figure to comfort her. Throughout the novel, Bronte has given the orphan Jane many motherly figures including: Bessie, Miss Temple, Helen, and even the moon. When she is alone searching for something to cling onto, Jane resolves that her only relative is the “universal mother Nature,” and fastens herself to it.