What Does Reading Symbolize In Jane Eyre

In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Jane uses reading as a mean to cope with her hardships of living at Gateshead. She uses this mechanism because it is effective way of relieving her stress. This is a good way to deal with her problems because it takes her mind off what is happening in the outside world . Also, Jane rads because when we the audience are introduced to Jane in the text, she is very lonely because she has no one in her life and this allows her to be distracted from that so she can be at peace.
The main coping mechanism Jane has in the novel is reading. Jane uses this because it is all she is able to do at Gateshead that is able to seclude her from the servants and the Reed family. As Jane says,”I was reading.”(10),. This shows how the mechanism the mechanism she uses to cope with her hardships.
This is shown in the text when Abbott says,”No; you are less than a servant, for nothing you do...think about your wickedness.”(11). This shows how Jane spent most of her life secluded because if one person came into her life, they leave her one way or another. This development shows later on in the book because the one only friend she ever had, Helen, had died and miss Temple left the school because she had