Jane Eyre’s personality could be described as women with intelligence that doesn’t lack power or strength. She would take life by the horns and prove to her tormentors that she is worth something and prove that she can succeed in life. Along that journey to succeed she would encounter heartbreak. First with the death of Helen Burns and second leaving the man she fell in love with. Eyre goes by the beat of her own drums and tries not to let anything get in the way of her happiness. She has suffered enough throughout the years especially with the abuse she received growing up. In the novel Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre portrays a strong feminist role where she will over come obstacles to obtain her own form of happiness.
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She was an orphaned child taken in by her Aunt Reed where she would suffer years of intolerable abuse at the hands of both her aunt and cousins. “The volume was flung, it hit me, and I fell, striking my head against the door and cutting it.” (11) “Wicked and cruel boy! I said. “You are like a murderer-you are like a slave driver-you are like the Roman emperors!” (11) Jane is a true fighter and this just goes to show the true strength she had when she was just a little girl. The best thing that could ever have happened to Jane Eyre was when she was sent to Lowood where she would get an education and grow into that feministic woman. “Let her stand half and hour longer on that stool, and let no one speak to her the remainder of the day.” (67) Moments like these where she would be called out in front of her teachers and classmates would help her become that fearless women not afraid of being scrutinized by society. There at Lowood she would meet Helen Burns and become friends with her. There friendship would be short lived as Helen would pass away. “I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little crib; my face against Helen Burn’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was—dead.” (83) Another horrible thing to happen to Jane in her short years. These tragedies would not hold her back they would make her stronger. Stronger in a way that she could take on the next tragic events in her
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She was an orphaned child taken in by her Aunt Reed where she would suffer years of intolerable abuse at the hands of both her aunt and cousins. “The volume was flung, it hit me, and I fell, striking my head against the door and cutting it.” (11) “Wicked and cruel boy! I said. “You are like a murderer-you are like a slave driver-you are like the Roman emperors!” (11) Jane is a true fighter and this just goes to show the true strength she had when she was just a little girl. The best thing that could ever have happened to Jane Eyre was when she was sent to Lowood where she would get an education and grow into that feministic woman. “Let her stand half and hour longer on that stool, and let no one speak to her the remainder of the day.” (67) Moments like these where she would be called out in front of her teachers and classmates would help her become that fearless women not afraid of being scrutinized by society. There at Lowood she would meet Helen Burns and become friends with her. There friendship would be short lived as Helen would pass away. “I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little crib; my face against Helen Burn’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was—dead.” (83) Another horrible thing to happen to Jane in her short years. These tragedies would not hold her back they would make her stronger. Stronger in a way that she could take on the next tragic events in her