JANE WHERE
JANE WHERE

Summary/Abstract: The title JANE WHERE brings together a feminine first name and a relative adverb, which sum up the argument of this paper: Charlotte Brontë’s famous character, Jane Eyre, which is the portrait in the homonymous novel of the author, is a persuasive example of social change through attractors which introduce a new type of information into the system changing it in time. Jane Eyre, as the representative of a new class – female middle-class professionals - stirred discontent among the conservative aristocrats, but the British society of the nineteenth century proved remarkably open to reform and progressive, democratic ideas. That explains why Jane earned her creator the reputation of a heroine of the time, capable to force open the doors to public career for categories of people who had been traditionally marginalized and muted. The same type of character, however, may have just met with a tragic end in locations which sociologists call postfigurative (living according to their ancestors, opposing change). The pronunciation of Jane Where, sounding similar to Jane Eyre, suggests this determination of space over human lives. This is an interdisciplinary study which applies Philip Anderson’s theory of localization, impurities and attractors to literature.

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