Wednesday, May 6, 2020

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Jane Eyre by...

â€Å"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.† - Jalalad-din-Rumi The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontà «, both show two people that are fated to meet within forbidden circumstances that should have prevented them from being together but causes them to push against the destiny laid out. Night Circus by Morgenstern shows the main characters, Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair, slowly develop feelings for each other, as they learn the true ending of their story. In Jane Eyre by Brontà «, the protagonists, Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester, learn to trust one another as they face difficulties and a major secret that tests her loyalty to†¦show more content†¦In Jane Eyre, both Jane and Edward keep breaking rules and boundaries that come their way. The rules of their society forbid their relationship, which should have prevented them from being together but it brings them closer. In the period of time that the book is set in, the difference in social classes are visible between the two. This creates the problems that arise as she feels the difference that separates them. Jane Eyre is not only an orphan; she is also poor with no permanent home and relatives. Edward Rochester is a man that is wealthier and much older than she is. This displays the two people that should have not been able to meet and fall in love the way they did. The boundary that they face later in the story is that as they are about to get married, it is revealed that he is still married to a mentally ill woman. These boundaries and rules that exist in both stories are the reasons to why their love prospers as they face them together and break though limits imposed upon them. Thirdly, the first time they speak in a social context is the starting of a new journey and the desire to step forward into the unknown world of complications. The first meeting of the two destined lovers is what in the future, triggers the feelings of survivability and the desires to break the restrictions in their way. Throughout night circus, the characters are drawn to each other through the exhibitions that

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