t looking forward to the journey ahead: “Few children can eat when excited with the thoughts of a journey; nor could I” (34). With regards to these documentations, Jane is indeed craving variation in her monotonous, melancholy life and is delighted when it presents itself.When Jane leaves Lowood she is not only leaving her security, but also a paid position and a trouble free life. In order for her to commit these actions, she would have to possess a desire to leave. After Miss Temple, a considerably close mentor and friend of Jane’s, marries and leaves, this urge for departure is tremendously magnified in her mind and even more importantly in her heart (76). While contemplating in her room alone, she happens to walk to her window and, when looking out, recounts:My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks. It was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits. I traced the white road winding round the base of one mountain, and vanishing in a gorge between two. How I longed to follow it farther! (77)In Jane’s mind, she already feels that she needs change before this moment, and after it her heart is truly drawn into the concept as well. Noting the exclamation point at the end of this statement, her intense desire for something new is distinctly apparent. Shortly after this life-changing insight, not forgetting her penitential surroundings, she narrates, “I desired liberty; for liberty I grasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer… For change, stimulus” (77). An enthused young woman caught up in the spirit of the moment, Jane later understands that because of her social status this freedom will most likely remain non-existent. However, she does still crave something new and fresh to taste: something in a new setting to experience (77).In addition to Jane’s desire of leaving Gateshead and L...
