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Jane Eyre Use Your Senses to Make Sense of Jane Eyre In her novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte establishes the reader with a first-hand account of a woman’s triumph over hardships. The character of Jane Eyre is passionate and hungry for equality as an individual. She does, however, lack the most superficial yet very necessary qualities of femininity. Jane is frank and sincere but lacks in personal vanity. Bronte describes Jane as “small and plain and Quaker-like.” Jane Eyre is a young woman who is completely unprotected by social position. She has no family and is without power or independent wealth. What she lacks in femininity she makes up for with passion and appetite. Throughout the novel, Jane faces many hardships that test her integrity and spirit. In the opening scenes with her aunt, for example Jane shows her true feelings: “People think you a good woman, but you are bad; hard-hearted. You are deceitful!” and “I am glad you are no relative of mine; I will never call you aunt again so jane, reader, novel, eyre, bronte, very, rochester, jane’s, fire, portray, passion, woman, vivid, throughout, senses, sense, never, long, describes, creature, york, wondering, walk, true, triumph, time, thought, scenes, portrayal, new, narrative, makes, make, lion-like, liked