Jane Eyre’ s experience and her character
...y have shocked readers of the time, Jane’ s actions would open the door for a new interpretation of a woman. Jane Eyre showed that it was possible for a woman in the nineteenth century to achieve independence and success on her own, no matter what odds were against her. She has the courage to confront all kinds of unequal treatment. “I resist all the way”, Jane states at the beginning of chapter 2.it is the rebellious character changes her fate. After the death of her parents, Jane lives in the house of her aunt, Sara Reed, Sara only allow Jane to stay in her house, because of a promise Sara made to her brother who was on his death bed. However, Sara regrets her promise, despises Jane from the beginning, and blames her for every disturbance between her own children and Jane despises the fact the Reed children usually instigate the argument. All of that exacerbates Jane’ feeling of alienation. It is the depressing and stifling environment made Jane’ rebellious and independent character form. She stares at the aunt’s behavior coldly and she is hostile to their humiliation. In order to struggle for her own right to be a human, the girl hits back by all efforts regardless of her weakness and unprotect. Although she was locked in the terrible red-room, she still shouts loudly, “unjust-unjust!”(Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Oxford University Press, 1980 p 54 ) In fact, she abuses the unfriendly disown of all relatives relationship among the person in the English upper society. She will fight against the oppression world. When she leaves her aunt’s family. She says, “How dare I, Mrs. Reed? How dare I? Because it is truth. You think I have no feeling, and I can do without one bit of love or kindness, but I cannot live so and you have no pity. I shall remember how you trust me back----roughly and violently trust me back into the red—room and locked me, up here----to my dying day though I was in agony; though I cried out, while suffocating with distress”, “Have mercy! Have mercy Aunt Reed!” And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me ----knocked me down for nothing. I will tell anybody who asks me questions this exact tale. People think you are deceitful (Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Oxford University Press. 1980 p96). These words were just true portrayal of Jane’s rebellious spirit. Though Jane was just a little girl, the big woman has no leg to stand on and feels frightened, not just Jane’s words but her rebellious spirit. It’s hard for people to imagine that such a short, p...