“Jane Eyre....a Woman of Independent Means” Charlotte Brontes, Jane Eyre is a novel which employs many themes. Of them all, Jane the main character, displays a strong character trait of being an independent woman. For example, Jane has an ability to survive in life as a woman with little education and no family. Living with a distant family who shows disrespect and hatred for Jane, she is isolated into a world of her own. …showed first 75 words of 713 total…

…showed last 75 words of 713 total…be like. Her devotion to her own principles in life bring a great deal of suffering, but she ends up surviving many challenges of her personal beliefs. “Jane Eyre, motherless and economically powerless, undergoes certain traditional female temptations, and finds that each temptation presents itself along with an alternative - the image of a nurturing or principled or spirited woman on whom she can model herself, or to whom she can look for support.” (Rich 91)