Introspection, half-belief in the supernatural, conflicting emotions, gushing description appear throughout Jane Eyre. Rochester's mention of prescience -- both foreshadowing and premonition -- come up again and again throughout the work. "I knew . . . you would do me good in some way . . . I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you," Rochester tells Jane. Both he and she believe implicitly the things they read in eyes, in nature, in dreams. Jane has dreams which …
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… a cooler region, where the dawn breaks grey and sober and the coming day, for a time at least, is subdued in clouds "[all materials from the Norton critical edition of Jane Eyre). Though she did at last consent to leave her imaginary world behind, it played such a large part in her child and early adulthood that there is no doubt her recollections of time spent there affected Jane's experience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**