The lives of Jane Eyre and Emily Dickinson relate in many ways even though the eras they belong to we’re ten years apart. Dickinson and Eyre share a life of isolation and suppression.  In the poem “ The Soul selects her own Society” by Emily Dickinson she speaks of acceptance and privilege. Longing to belong and feel free and not oppressed by groups of class. Jane was worthy of changing her world of class and did not care that she was the governess of Thornfield. She fell in love with Mr Rochester and always wanted more out of her life as a women. In chapter seventeen, Jane is drawing a portrait of the known concubine to Mr. Rochester, Blanche, who is talked about often due to her arrival at Thornfield that’s   coming up. As she picks up chalk the thoughts of this woman Blanche could be a considered the opposite of how Jane sees herself. At the end of the second paragraph Jane states “ Blanche, an accomplished lady of the rank” giving the reader the feeling of discouragement according to appearance and social class. “The soul selects her own society, then , shuts the door” Dickinson’s words and poetry speak volumes when compared to Jane and the way she feels about her life. What’s she urges for which she never let go of her whole existence, even  through torment and extreme depression which started as a child. The poem that Dickinson wrote is duplication of the way Jane feels about her life socially.