Thus, Brontë establishes a growing comfort with a place that was otherwise marked as dangerous. Furthermore, Jane’s inability to look inside while distracted by the beauty of the outdoors highlights that her movement from the inside to the outside furthers her development from isolation. In addition, the proposal scene between Rochester and Jane evokes the latter’s kinship with the moon. As he proposes to Jane, Rochester calls her “ ‘You–you strange, you almost unearthly thing!...' ” (229). Just like the moon she praises, Jane is also of beyond the earth. Brontë links Jane to a personified celestial object; thus, she implies Jane’s rightful place is outside. Therefore, Jane Eyre suggests Jane’s inevitable shift from social isolation to possessing a deep …show more content…
She claims that she saw Bertha’s “reflection…and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass.” In her childhood, Jane uses the mirror to see her own reflection; yet, in adulthood she sees the image of another individual. She describes the face as “fearful and ghastly…discoloured,” and wished she “could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of lineaments!” Rochester replies, “Ghosts are usually pale…” (254) Despite there being a different individual in the reflection, Jane still uses supernatural terms to describe what she sees. After the encounter, Jane again looks in the mirror, but this time she wears her wedding veil. She remarks that in her reflection, she “saw a robed and veiled figures, so unlike my usual self that it seemed almost the image of a stranger…” (257). Even though she looks at her own reflection this time, she still remarks upon how she appears as an individual unknown to her. Hence, the novel still denotes glass as a border between the worlds of the fantastical and reality, as Jane still uses supernatural diction to describe the visual reflections. However, it suggests Jane’s distance from self-reflection by her finding other individuals in the mirror–marking a shift from mental and physical