While living at Gateshead Hall, she comes to expect the tyranny of John and braces for his abuse at all times. But the last he attacks, she realizes that she has the opportunity to fight back. Although John is not abusive towards the other women in his family, he shows disaffection because they are family members unlike Jane. His exertion of his gender authority comes also in the form of demands to call him “Master”. He demands to know what she’s doing at all times, especially with anything belonging to the Reeds such as books. Until the climax of the chapter, Jane sees it as a matter of survival at Gateshead to be obedient to John even if she is still abused by him. Ultimately, she decides on a whim that she can employ her independence as a woman and fight him back, although not yet realizing her full potential. However, it is here that her journey to realizing her self-sufficiency as a woman
While living at Gateshead Hall, she comes to expect the tyranny of John and braces for his abuse at all times. But the last he attacks, she realizes that she has the opportunity to fight back. Although John is not abusive towards the other women in his family, he shows disaffection because they are family members unlike Jane. His exertion of his gender authority comes also in the form of demands to call him “Master”. He demands to know what she’s doing at all times, especially with anything belonging to the Reeds such as books. Until the climax of the chapter, Jane sees it as a matter of survival at Gateshead to be obedient to John even if she is still abused by him. Ultimately, she decides on a whim that she can employ her independence as a woman and fight him back, although not yet realizing her full potential. However, it is here that her journey to realizing her self-sufficiency as a woman