Jane Eyre

Jane is now set to commence this chapter of her life enthralled in the learning of academics and the friendship of classmates. And this is precisely what Jane Eyre follows-through with: “I from that hour set to work afresh, resolved to pioneer my way through every difficulty: I toiled hard, and my success was proportionate to my efforts” (pg. 7). As a result of this hard, diligent work, Jane is “promoted to a higher class” and is taking new and exciting classes such as “French and drawing.” She displays the self-satisfaction at having improved in these fields: “I learned the first two tenses of the verb ETRE, and sketched my first cottage (whose walls, by-the-bye, outrivalled in slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa), on the same day” (pg. 7).
As evidence of Jane’s satisfaction at school and her improvements, she declares
that rather than ruminate over the material possessi...