Brains Before Beauty in Jane Erye Beauty is generally classified into two main categories: physical and mental. In Jane Erye by Charlotte Bronte, the protagonist rejects, by choice and submission, her physical beauty in favor of her mental intelligence and humility, and her choice becomes her greatest benefit allowing her to win the hand of the man of her desires , a man who has the values ​​that Jane herself believes in. She values ​​her knowledge and thinking above any physical appearance because of her desire to read as a child, the lessons she is taught, and the reinforcements of the idea that appear in her adulthood. Over the course of the novel he lives in five houses. In each of these places, the idea of ​​inner beauty conquering outer appearance becomes a lesson, and in her final home she gets her reward, a man who loves her purely for her mind. Reads against her cousins' wishes as a child in Gateshead, learns to appreciate her intelligence as a child at Lowood Institution, her mind and humility win the heart of Mr. Rochester at Thornfield Manor, earns St. John's marriage proposal at Marsh's End., and ultimately wins the prize of Mr. Rochester's hand in marriage at Ferndean Manor. Jane Erye spent the beginning of her childhood at her aunt's house, where she struggled to become smarter by reading books. Jane wants to learn, even though her cousin insists, "You don't have to read our books; you're a dependent" (p. 42). Shortly after being struck by the reading, she goes to bed and asks, "Gulliver's Travels from the library. This book I have read over and over again with joy" (p. 53). His ambition to read and improve himself meets opposition from his cousins, yet he continues...... middle of paper ......f Love in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.David Lodge, Fire and Eyre: Charlotte Brontë's War of the Earthly Elements Fraser, Rebecca. The Brontes. 1st ed. New York: Crown Publishers, 1988. Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 3rd ed. New York: The Modern Library. Bronte, Charlotte. "Letters of Charlotte Bronte". New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1971.Diedrick, James. Newman on the Gentleman.http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/vn/victor10.html.Diedrick, James. Jane Eyre and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.http://spider.albion.edu/fac/engl/diedrick/jeyre1.htm.Dickerson, Vanessa D. Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide.http://www.system. missouri.edu/upress/fall1996/dickerso.htm.Brownell, Eliza. Age Gap in Marriage: The Context for Jane Eyre