Jane Eyer Character Analysis Essay

In Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyer, the main character Jane Eyer develops into a self-sufficient independent female despite the abusive childhood.”‘I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed”( Brontë, 62). At the beginning of the novel Jane was completely reliant on others, she quickly realizes that she doesn’t need others to gratify her self-worth. When she speaks out against her aunt, an act that was unheard of for a child in this era, it shows that she now has the ability to support herself.The confidence she shows is an important key in her self-sufficiency. “Sir, your wife is living: that is a fact acknowledged this morning by yourself. If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical—is false.”(Brontë,580). The knowledge that her employer and potential husband, Mr. Rochester, is still married to a woman who he
The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”(Brontë, 605). When she spoke out against her aunt she realized she didn’t need others to gratify her, though this idea got lost through the store when she finds a love interest and loses him, the idea again appears later in her life when she is debating whether or not to leave the Rochester home, because of her leaving she becomes more independent and free, something she had been searching for her entire life. Her deciding on her own and realizing, again, that she can be by herself and be more powerful than most men can be in her era is a major turning point for her character in the story. Jane Eyre's character became more self-sufficient, developed moral and personal strengths,and found a freedom that she had been in search of for her entire life.Her belief in her equality to others cannot be taken from her, because it is an inherent part of her knowledge and