Psychology and narrative in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is known for how its eponymous protagonist is portrayed as a woman who yearns for solidarity and freedom, which is not common for women in Nineteenth-Century British society. However, the language that is used in the narrative of the novel leads the readers to understand that Jane Eyre is a woman whose personality is not rebellious. It turns out that Brontë used narrative techniques that misleading Jane’s appearance, especially her state of mind. In this particular study, a complexity in her narrative structure is read as Jane’s identity explorer. Jane is analyzed as a character and a narrator to point out how her persona works with her identity construction. This identity construction Jane does as a narrator results on how she expresses her self-control and Freudian narcissism as it affects to how she constructs her identity.