Charlotte Bronte’s life experiences inspired her to create many of the characters and events that appear in her novel Jane Eyre, such as Jane’s friend Helen Burns, who was inspired by Bronte’s sister Marie. Like her novel counterpart, Marie died of consumption in an institution much like the Lowood School for orphan girls in the novel. Jane Eyre is the story of an orphan girl who had never known love. She lived with her atrocious aunt and cousins who wanted absolutely nothing to do with her, but her luck changed when she attended Lowood School. As Jane matures over the course of her stay she developed new ideologies and a need for something more, which led her down a path of love, newfound independence, and deadly secrets. The foremost
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Jane began showing signs of self-reliability when she decided to become governess to Adele Varnes at the Thornfield Estate. She used her experience as a teacher at Lowood as qualification to take the next step and leave her comfort zone to live amongst strangers. Jane specifically stated, “What do I want? A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances… There are many others who have no friends, who must look about for themselves and be their own helpers…”(87) To clarify, Jane was saying she wants something new, because she had been amongst the people of Lowood for eight years and is confident in her own abilities to achieve something higher i.e. the governess position. In addition, Jane alo conveys that there are many others in her position that helped themselves to succeed and so could she. Therefore, Jane’s newfound independence from being a governess gives her the initiative to take the position as mistress of Morton’s School for Girls. The utter independence of the position also convinces Jane to accept the offer, for she contemplates, “In truth it was humble-but then it was sheltered, and I wanted a safe asylum; it was plodding-but then, compared with that of a governess in a rich house, it was independent...not mentally degrading.”(375) Jane is content with this position, it offered her a home where she could do as she pleased and had more
Jane began showing signs of self-reliability when she decided to become governess to Adele Varnes at the Thornfield Estate. She used her experience as a teacher at Lowood as qualification to take the next step and leave her comfort zone to live amongst strangers. Jane specifically stated, “What do I want? A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances… There are many others who have no friends, who must look about for themselves and be their own helpers…”(87) To clarify, Jane was saying she wants something new, because she had been amongst the people of Lowood for eight years and is confident in her own abilities to achieve something higher i.e. the governess position. In addition, Jane alo conveys that there are many others in her position that helped themselves to succeed and so could she. Therefore, Jane’s newfound independence from being a governess gives her the initiative to take the position as mistress of Morton’s School for Girls. The utter independence of the position also convinces Jane to accept the offer, for she contemplates, “In truth it was humble-but then it was sheltered, and I wanted a safe asylum; it was plodding-but then, compared with that of a governess in a rich house, it was independent...not mentally degrading.”(375) Jane is content with this position, it offered her a home where she could do as she pleased and had more