I shall be back by dinner.?ch. VII). She thinks as long as you have a motive, there is nothing you can't do no matter what gender you are. Elizabeth believes women can do everything as well as men even if without men's help. .
Dismissing the idea of Jane and Elizabeth's yearning for being treated equally in the patripotestal society at their time, in my opinion, I think their personalities and thoughts are quite different: Jane is emotional; sometimes thinks herself is inferior to others. On the contrary, Lizzy is quite sensible but sometimes would misjudge others with her prejudice; besides, compared with Jane Eyre, Lizzy is quite confident of herself though all the time she feels shamed by the behaviors of her "foolish mother?and "immature sisters.?(From website) However, all of these diverse personalities result from their dissimilar backgrounds. .
Jane Eyre, an orphan who is adopted by her aunt, spends an unhappy childhood. She is treated as a servant or as a lower position than they are. She is punished and scolded all the time no matter she is right or wrong. In such an unsound family, Jane suffers both physical and mental tortures which lead to her anxiety for love and freedom. The unhappy experiences with the Reed family at Gateshead also resulte in Jane Eyre's uncontrolled temper.What would Uncle Reed say to you, if he were alive??It was my scarcely voluntary demand. I say scarcely voluntary, for it seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.?(ch. IV). She is suppressed by the unfair environment too much; she can not do what she likes to do as an innocent little girl; she can neither get a warm love which she should have had from the family. All of her wrong is touch and go when she is sent to Lowood. She shouts to her aunt to retaliate, "I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed; and this book about the liar, you may give to your girl, Georgiana, for it is she who tells lies, and not I.
