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Pride In Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

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We start with seeing Jane as a child living at her aunt’s manor her uncle had died and her aunt doesn’t treat her very well. Her cousins treat her as lower than them her cousin John and her get in a fight and she gets blamed. At the beginning we see her not putting much emphasis on her faith and power of will but she is strong. “I was knocked down was the blunt explanation jerked out of me by another pang of mortified pride”(Brontë,24). She had a lot of pride and that is good for strength. She is willing to stand up for herself and put the people in their place she learned strength through the book and she became more vocally strong. “ I have as much soul as you and full as much heart”(Brontë,306). Although she loves him and is willing to live

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