As an adult, Jane also makes her own escape from a world in which women are nothing but accessories to men to a world where they are powerful and valuable.
She creates this world in her drawings. Her images feature women being empowered. One woman rising into the sky is "crowned by a star" while another with only the "glassiness of despair" in her eyes bares a crescent with the "likeness of a kingly crown." Further, Jane draws supernatural images of women with "wild" eyes and of drowned corpses in green water--images not fit to come from ladies' minds.
These works of art suggest a reflection of Brontë's own desire for artistic freedom. The beautiful, powerful words which flow from her mind are not allowed to enter the world unedited. To be read by the world, they must be diluted and cut away at to fit into the mold of acceptable women's literature. Just as Jane's drawings are her escape to a more fair world, Jane is Brontë's escape as through her hand she is able to paint the pictures of truth--the pictures she could not otherwise reveal.
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