Jane’s parents died when she was young. She can’t even remember them. She lived with her uncle and his family; but when her uncle died, her aunt did not want to care for her. She was little better than a servant. One day her cousin, John Reed, starts teasing her that she is an orphan and that she is only able to live with the Reed’s because of his mother’s charity. He then threw a book at her head, and Jane erupted. “The volume was flung, it hit me, and I fell, striking my head against the door and cutting it. The cut bled, the pain

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë shows very well, what struggles a female in the Victorian era would have to face. Jane, for example, has a very hard life, and she uses the best of her to overcome what comes her way. She does what is right, not just what she wants to do, and because of that, she is revealed as a very strong character.

Soon after this incident, Jane is sent to a charity school for girls, called Lowood Institution. At this school there are many deprivations. They have little food, poor sewing utensils, and they have to live very humble lives. The cruel master of Lowood, Mr. Brocklehurst, would not allow the girls at the school to have any luxuries. They couldn’t be in any sense fashionable, such as having curly hair. Even if the curly hair was natural, it was not allowed. When a young girl had naturally curly hair at Lowood, he had it cut off. Mr Brocklehurst also announced to the whole school that Jane was deceitful, and not to b trusted. On top of that embarrassment, he made her sit on a stool, and wouldn’t let anyone speak to her for the rest of the day. “ ‘Let her stand half-an

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