These powerful words come from the lips of ten year-old Jane Eyre. Throughout the novel Jane is searching for love: the need to be loved and love she can show to someone else, of the opposite sex, whom she truly loves. There is a problem lying in this simple plan though: Jane keeps running from her possible chances of marriage. This resistance that Jane displays towards marriage is foreshadowed about a third of the way through the novel by a simple game of charades. The answers to two charades in particular are of certain interest: bride and bridewell. These two unsuspecting answers give the reader a subtle warning of what is to come in the future and how Jane’s life will keep unfolding.

Jane’s search for love is obvious to the reader from the first page of the novel. We are first introduced to Jane while she is a littl

Jane eventually returns to Thornfield to find a house in ruins. She learns of what happened to the house and also of the death of Bertha and proceeds to search for Rochester. When she finds Rochester he is a shell of his formal self; he has lost one of his during the fire and has gone blind. Rochester again asks Jane to marry him and she says yes. “I love you better now, when I can really be useful to you, than I did in your state of proud independence”(Brontë, 379).

After Jane has returned from Gateshead for the last time she is confronted by Rochester. This is the confrontation that Jane seems to have been waiting for her entire life: Rochester’s proposal of marriage to her. Jane is actually shocked at this proposal and thinks he is mocking her but after some convincing and Rochester telling Jane that he truly does love her, she accepts.

e girl living with her aunt, Mrs. Reed., at Gateshead Hall. While at Gateshead Jane is subjected to many things by her so called family and love is definitely not one of them. She is beaten, isolated from the rest of the household, and in a very memorable scene locked in a room for a night. Jane’s anger is finally released upon her aunt one night before Jane is sent to school. Jane unleashes a slew of words towards the woman that eventually makes her leave and Jane is left feeling triumphant. However, during this diatribe Jane lets her aunt know she truly feels: “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”(Brontë, 30). Jane, at the early age of eight, knows that in order to make it through life she can not go on simply by herself. She needs other people; people who love her, to help her and to show their love for her.

Jane’s next place of residence is at Thornfield, one of many homes of the wealthy Mr. Rochester. This is the place where Jane finds her true love: Mr. Rochester. The problem with this potential relationship developing is the fact that Jane is a governess and Rochester is the man of the house. Despite this difference in status the two of them not only talk everyday but also talk to each other as if they were equals in society and in their relationship to each other.

Jane eventually leaves Thornfield with practically nothing and with no real plan about where she is going or what she is going to do. In time she meets up with her long lost cousins, one of which is St. John. After spending some time with her cousins, Jane soon attracts the attention of St. John. He begins to take a liking to Jane and eventually asks Jane to m

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