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Unrealistic Images of Women in Jane Eyre Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, is the story of an orphan named Jane. Describes the life of a young girl. The book begins at Gateshead Hall where Jane lived with her aunt and cousins. She is largely the unwanted child, a burden to the entire Reed family. In fact, in that house she was mistreated and mistreated. Her aunt and cousins ​​abuse her both physically and emotionally. After a while her aunt sends her to a charitable institution, Lowood. Food is scarce in Lowood. The manager, Mr. Brocklehurst, is mean. It kept the girls almost on the verge of starvation. When summer came the girls started getting sick. Bronte writes, "Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to contract the infection; forty-five of the eighty girls lay ill at one time" (Bronte 66). Yet despite all this, Jane survives. He goes to graduate from that school and becomes a teacher. At nineteen Jane leaves Lowood to be governess to a little girl in Thornfield. In Thornfied Jane finally experiences freedom. She is no longer beholden to anyone. However, in Thornfield she falls in love with her master Rochester. And for the first time in her life she too is loved and desired by a man. However, at the altar she discovers that he is married. Even though his wife is a dangerous lunatic, she feels obligated to leave him. Throughout the book Jane is described as a survivor. She is the epitome of femininity. Jane is a survivor. He survives abuse at both Gateshead and Lowood. She survives the death of her best and only friend, Helen Burns. He is strong and does not wither under the pressure of life. Even when life is cruel it cannot completely kill her spirit or her desire to be alive. Jane distances herself from the traditional woman. The one who needs protection and shelter from the harsh world. The woman who needs a man to support and console her. In contrast, Jane is independent and self-sufficient. Bronte emphasizes Jane's independence by making her a working woman and contrasting her with the rest of the women concerned in Rochester. Unlike them, she takes care of herself. He does not aim to marry into wealth. She is in love with Rochester's mind while Blanche is in love with her bag.