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Lead Topic and Goal
To add a section on Feminist Literature or Female Heroines in the Hero's Journey article that extrapolate and illustrate how they take part or break away from the traditional norms in the monomyth. The first example I will use is Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre as it has well documented sources detailing Jane's portrayal within the Hero's Journey. After I have accurately drafted an outline of Jane Eyre and how the story fits the Hero's Journey I am looking to add a few more examples of Heroines in the Hero's journey (Yet to be decided). I want to leave room for others to improve upon this section with the hope that others feel the same passion I do towards the topic and add an expansion of their own knowledge on the source.

Jane’s personal goals are met, which ultimately lead her to having a successful conclusion to her Hero’s Journey. These two goals are: Satiating her need to love and be loved. Reflective of her quote with the Doll when she was a child, stating that if she was content believing it was a live and happy, then she was happy. Janes need for Liberty. Traditionally, in Bildungsoman Victorian Archetype has a hero choose a vocation to climb out of their situation and assert themselves into society. (Like Great Expectations – Pip being trained to be a gentleman) However, this is misleading as a Female Heroine has a different social construct and her main way of climbing is via Marriage. How does Jane/Bronte circumnavigate this? Reminiscent of Milton’s “Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind,” Ultimately, Jane's freedom is signified by her finally letting  Aunt Reed have it stating, “It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped-for liberty” Foreshadows her much more grand and profound statement towards liberty and Freedom later on in the story.
 * Conflict that holds her back from this goal are her appearance; lacking beauty and being little. (Reflective of quote from novel stating her misdeeds could be forgiven if she was pretty like Georgiana)
 * The way she is treated by her family. Forced seclusion and her injury that nearly killed her. Reflective of the mental damage (possibly her injury sustained as a Hero) and the emergence of her rebellious nature. (reflective of quote where she asks Mrs. Reed what her uncle would think of her treatment of her)
 * Late entrance into society and forming connections with people. (Reflective of the quote where she states she would rather gain ‘real affection’ from those she truly loves)
 * Social climbing for Jane (stated above)
 * Dodging platitudes and self-accretion of freedom – Liberty of mind for Jane instead of ‘marriage climbing’
 * Two non-conventional marriage suitors.

Jane's cycle in the heroine's journey is allowed to be fleshed out and grow since she refuses to stay with Rochester in the Thornfield Act. Rochester asking for Jane to stay and remain his mistress comes at far to great a cost for Jane's two ultimate goals of being loved and freedom. As a mistress she would again face imprisonment of her mind. However, when she returns to Thornfield is in a state of ruin by the fire that had burnt down his house and killed Rochester's wife. Rochester has become blind and maimed due to the fire and is in need of Jane. At this point in the novel Jane and Rochester are as close to equals as they can possibly be. Rochester has become poorer while Jane is an independent woman with wealth from her gained inheritance.

(These were notes from my sources used to draft the final parts)

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë's character Jane Eyre is an important figure in the in illustrating heroines place within the Hero's Journey. Charlotte Brontë sought to craft a unique female character that the term "Heroine" could fully encompass. Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story common in Victorian fiction, also referred to as an apprenticeship novel, that show moral and psychological development of the protagonist as they grow into adults. Jane being a Middle-class Victorian woman would face entirely different obstacles and conflict than her male counterparts of this era such as Pip in Great Expectations. This would change the course of the Hero’s Journey as Bronte was able to recognize the fundamental conflict that plagued woman of this time. One main source of this conflict being women’s relationship with power and money and often being distant from obtaining both. Charlotte Brontë takes Jane's character a step further by making her more passionate and outspoken than other Victorian characters of this time. The abuse and psychological trauma Jane receives from the Reeds as a child cause her to develop two central goals for her to complete her heroine journey: A need to love and be loved and her need for liberty. Jane accomplishes part of attaining liberty when she castigates Mrs. Reed for treating her poorly as a child, obtaining the freedom of her mind. As Jane grows throughout the novel she also becomes unwilling to sacrifice one of her goals for the other. When Rochester, the temptress in her journey, asks her to stay with him as her mistress she refuses as it would jeopardize the freedom she struggled to obtain. She instead returns when Rochester's wife had deceased when she was free to marry him thus being able to achieve both of her goals and complete her role in the Hero's Journey. (This has been used) (Wikilinks were added to the article too that I didn't think would make sense to add them in my sandbox.)

Psyche
The story Metamorphoses also known as The Golden Ass by Apuleius in 158 A.D. is one of the most enduring and retold myths involving the Hero's Journey. The tale of Cupid and Psyche is a frame tale, a story within a story and is one of the thirteen stories within Metamorphoses. Use of the frame tale puts both the story teller and reader into the novel as characters, which explores a main aspect of the hero journey due to it being a process of tradition where literature is written and read. Cupid and Psyche's tale has become the most popular of Metamorphoses and has been retold many times with successful iterations dating as recently as 1956's Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. Much of the tales captivation comes from the central heroine Psyche. Psyche's place within the hero's journey is fascinating and complex as it revolves around her characteristics of being a beautiful woman and the conflict that arises from it. Psyche's beauty causes her to become ostracized from society as no male suitors will ask to marry her as they feel unworthy of her seemingly divine beauty and kind nature. Due to this, Psyche's call to adventure is involuntary as her beauty enrages the goddess Venus, which results in Psyche being banished from her home. Part of what makes Psyche such a polarizing figure within the heroine's journey is her nature and ability to triumph over the unfair trials set upon her by Venus. Psyche is given four seemingly impossible tasks by Venus in order to get her husband Cupid back: The Sorting of the seeds, the fleecing of the golden rams, collecting a crystal jar full of the water of death, and retrieving a beauty creme from Hades. The last task is considered to be one of the most monumental and memorable tasks ever to be taken on in the history of the heroine's journey. Yet, Psyche is able to achieve each task and complete her ultimate goal of becoming eternal and going to Mt. Olympus to be with her husband Cupid finishing her heroine's journey.

(This has been used) (Wikilinks were added to the article too that I didn't think would make sense to add them in my sandbox.)

Charlotte Brontë's heroine Lucy Snowe from her third and last novel Villette (Probably won't be able to fit this)

(if in several months no one adds more to the heroine section I may add a full documented version of Lucy's place as I bought the book sources for it. This same book source The hero journey in literature : parables of poesis also contained Psyche's journey.) (still a thought though. I don't know that 2 sections of Charlotte Bronte would be good for diversity... Maybe some work of Eliza Haywood?)