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Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters. -Lady Macbeth, from Macbeth, Act I, Scene v- Charlotte Bronte, who was an avid reader in her childhood, allowed Jane Eyre to encounter a variety of books throughout the story. Books, however, function not as didactic tools in a quest for maturing in a Bildungsroman context, but as a metaphor for 'reading' people, the world, and her own inner self. Both Jane and Rochester "read" each other's countenances-the eyes, behavior and the mind of the other are subject matter for study. Jane draws pictures of other people and of herself, and this is another connotation of reading, because "Picture Reading" is primarily possible using the imagination in this novelistic fairy-tale context. Jane's integrity is rooted in Romanticism, where she sees things as pictures to be interpreted through her imagination. The romance between Jane and Rochester is an exemplar of a fairy-tale book read by Jane metaphorically. |