Jane Eyre Love Versus Independence
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Jane Eyre: Love Versus Independence
Jane Eyre is a novel about an intelligent, honest, plain-featured young girl forced to contend with oppression, inequality, and hardship repeatedly throughout her life. Jane, the narrator and main character of the novel, is forced with numerous decisions that reflect her values and morals in which she cherishes. Her main quest is her search for a sense of love and belonging, but it is continually tempered with by her own need for independence.
Jane begins the novel as an unloved orphan who is raised by her Aunt Reed at Gateshead. Jane feels that she does not belong at Gateshead due to her Aunt's strong resentment of her presence. Near the end of her stay at Gateshead, Jane's hatred for her Aunt is truly expressed when she says: "You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity... People think you are a good woman, but you are bad, hard hearted. You are deceitful!" (Bronte 36)...