Jane's character is very different at different stages in her life. Firstly I will look at her personality and character whilst still at Gateshead.

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Jane’s character is very different at different stages in her life. Firstly I will look at her personality and character whilst still at Gateshead.

I would describe her as having a strong willed personality, or blatantly as a ‘right little madam’. She likes to get her own way and she knows she can’t get it but still persists. She seems to obey rules for when John Reed orders her to ‘show the book’ she goes and gets it and shows it him, but when he ‘hurled the book’ at her head and she began to bleed, she tells him what she thinks of him which is as a ‘wicked and cruel boy!’. Even though she probably already knows that it won’t get her anywhere. She seems to have a temper she can not control, an anger which gets so frustrated she cant keep it in and some one even says, ‘what a fury to fly at master john’, which even though she doesn’t say she flew at him but he went for her, her view may be biased because it is from her point of view. One time In the book whilst still at Gateshead she even admits that she has a temper which she can’t control by saying, ‘I resisted all the way; a new thing for me’ which proves she finds it hard to hold back. Also whilst still at Gateshead she has a very lively imagination as when seeing a mysterious light, which was in fact coming from a lantern outside, she thinks it was a ghost, she says,  ‘I thought the swift darting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world’. But then again all little girls who are locked in a dark room where someone once died would probably do the same.

Jane is not afraid to speak her feelings, she is confident and has a lot of nerve and straightforwardness not afraid to get straight to the point and especially wants to get he feelings across to everyone else it seems not scared to express them at all. For example when the doctor comes to Gateshead she tells him ‘I cry because I am miserable’ and ‘I should indeed like to go to school’, telling him what she feels and not holding back her emotions.  Another occasion when Mr Brocklehurst the headmaster of her future school comes to Gateshead she is already turning out to be quite clever as when he says what must you do to avoid going to hell she says ‘keep in good health sir’. But he was trying to make her say read the bible; she cleverly avoided saying this as I presume it would annoy him. She is truthful and up-front when the headmaster asks her ‘do you like psalms?’, she says, ‘no psalms are not interesting’ just speaking truthfully. Bessie even says ‘what makes you so venturesome and hardy?’, which means bold and resilient.

She is very determined to retaliate and in a way win. As when Aunt reed has told Mr Brocklehurst that she has a ‘tendency to deceit’ it upsets her very much because she says ‘it was her nature to wound me cruelly’. I even discover that she thinks to herself ,‘what could I do to remedy the injury?’ which shows me that she always wants to get her way, she can’t stand to be put down, she always wants to fight back. So after this has happened she again thinks to herself ‘I had been trodden on severely and must turn, but how?’, it is like Jane just cant take defeat. She is a sore loser and seems to need to make her self feel better by saying something, which will even the score. So she says to her aunt ‘I am not deceitful: If I were I should say I loved you’, which is pretty bitter words but she doesn’t stop there she gets carried away and continues with, ‘I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world…’ and as if that is not enough she insults her son by saying ‘…. except John Reed.’

Jane is also very independent she likes being on her own as she says ‘I was then happy; happy at least in my way’, and that is when she is alone sat on the window seat with a book. She says, ‘I feared nothing but interruption’ which proves that she was happiest when alone not with anyone else and didn’t like it when other people came around.

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Jane is also beginning to show signs of being quite wick and intelligent even before she starts school as Bessie says ‘You sharp thing’ you’ve got quite a new way of talking.’ Proving that she is getting quite clever and quick with words.

Before she goes to school Jane seems to be not afraid of anything, she doesn’t think before she blurts into a rage, says what she thinks, is very independent and deep down I think she likes it best when she is on her own because no one can upset her and make her frustrated, she has ...

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