preview

How Does Jane Eyre Change Throughout The Novel

Decent Essays

The novel “Jane Eyre” written by author Charlotte Brontë follows a women’s life from basically the beginning of her life to the happy ever-after ending. Jane Eyre is an orphan that was raised by her mean, unloving aunt, Aunt Reed along with her three cousins John, Georgiana, and Eliza. Jane grows up having a hard, rough life, but as she matures and is able to meet different people as they come into her life she is able to become a better woman spiritually and physically. Going through what she went through as a child and even in her adult life prepares Jane for a happy ending while, everyone else is not happy who did her wrong. In the novelJane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë Jane is considered “plain” looking and poor, that changes her entire life because she would have been accepted as a kid and in her adult life and this matters because everything would have been so much easier for her in life. …show more content…

From the very beginning when Jane was only ten years old, she would be teased for being an outcast in the Reed’s house, like when John said “You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mama says;…” (Brontë, 4) John wanted to hurt Jane and make her feel low as a person which, he did accomplish. John was evil to Jane he reminded Jane day in and day out that she was nothing because she was an orphan and that she didn’t have any money or magnificent looks. If Jane were beautiful none of this would have happened to her because she would have fit in with the rest of her girl cousins, nobody would have looked at her like an outcast; beauty is everything in this world. If everyone accepted Jane for being beautiful and rich she wouldn’t have gone through all of the trauma she went through; things would have been better for

Get Access