How Does Jane Eyre Change Throughout The Novel

In the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, the main character Jane has gone from a dark childhood to an acceptable young Victorian woman, by going through many years of change and her overcoming her adolescent difficulties. In her younger years, a result of being unaccepted by her family, negatively affected her mental state. Once she reached Lowood Institution, she was taught how to become a respectable Victorian governess, which entails maturity and the ability to control emotion. Jane would see supernatural beings such as monsters, demons, and ghosts, even though they would only be flashes of light when she was a child. As Jane was punished by being put into the red room, she saw her reflection in the mirror, “a strange little figure… with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of
The way she was treated in her home reflected on self-image issues as well as external views of others, “suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, forever condemned” (14). As well as her behaviors, “She is a fighter, often humiliated and depressed, and yet termed naughtily… sullen and sneaking” (14). Jane had a particularly difficult childhood; she was consistently isolated from her family, not treat with the same respect as a young child should, and was not brought up to become a Victorian woman in the eyes of society. Her struggles all seemed to change when she attended Lowood Institution; this was the beginning of her development of mind. Once she was eighteen, she learned to become a respectable governess, and her mind had grown to fit into the mold that society has built for these women. Jane had become a well-accomplished student, and her education has led her to want to make further discoveries academically and to bring herself into real-life situations of the real world’s excitements, sensations, liberty, and