This passage does an excellent job of portraying the obvious feministic aspect of this novel. It shows that Jane has achieved self-hood; she doesn't need a husband to support her. She is independent and in charge of her own life, which is essentially a rejection of the role of wife and mother that women are expected to play in a patriarchal society.

"Nonsense again! Marry! I don't want to marry, and never shall marry"(341).

Traditionally, in patriarchal societies women were expected to marry, and most made it their sole desire to find a good and advantageous match. Jane's emphatic statement that she has no desire to marry is a rejection of the traditional role for women. This is a very feminist passage in that Jane is renouncing the common role of women by promulgating that she'll never be a wife.

"I remained an inmate of its walls, after its regeneration, for eight years, six as a student and two as a teacher.....During these eight years my life was uniform: but not unhappy, because it was not inactive (73).

"If I had anywhere else to go, I should be glad to leave it; but I can never get away from Gateshead till I am a woman"(20).

"A mile off, beyond the fields, lay a road which stretched in the contrary direction to Millcote; a road I had never traveled, but often noticed, and wondered where it led: thither I bent my steps."(283)

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e proved to you the absurdity of a single woman of your age proposing to accompany abroad a single man of mine"......... " I say again, I will be your curate, but never your wife"'(363-364).

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Approximate Word count = 623
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)