Jane’s courage frightens Mrs. Reed, for she knows Jane is right. Jane escapes from Mrs. Reed’s house partly because of fearless courage. Before she is packed off to “Charity” boarding school, she says to Mrs. Read boldly, “ I dislike you the most of anybody in the world except John Reed.” “I will never call you aunt again as long as I live.” “I will never to see you when I am grown up… I will say that you treated me with miserable cruelty”(Bronte 48).
What a brave girl Jane Eyre is! When she is still a little girl, her strong character is shown completely. There is no fears in face of difficulties, she only resists, until finally breaks out and speaks out all her anger!
b. At Lowood
At Lowood, under the hypocritical Evangelicalism of the headmaster, Mrs.Brocklehurst, Jane suffers further privation in the austere environment and a lot of humiliation in spirit.
The poor girls don’t be allowed to get much food. They are basically starving. And it is freezing all the time because they don’t shell out for heat. The condition there is disgusting, but Jane doesn’t submit to it. She gains her strength from her teacher and her fellow students to struggle with difficulties. At the beginning, Jane had much sympathy for Helen, because Helen doesn’t dare to fight against the person insulting her. When Helen is to be flogged, and to be sent to stand in the middle of a room full of people. Jane thinks that Helen should turn against the others when she is bullied. She should resist to Miss. Scatchard, and dislikes her. If Miss.Scatchard strike Jane with that rod, she should get it from her hand; she should break it under her nose.