Examples Of Isolation In Jane Eyre

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Jane Eyre is isolated at the beginning of the book. She's stuck with a family that hates her, and as she’s a powerless ten-year-old there is not much to be done about it. However, eventually she leaves and goes to school, where she finds herself in a similar situation.
She graduates and is able to become a governess for a french girl, and later a headmistress of her own school. In taking that position, she becomes truly self-sufficient. She needs to do this, because it is a part of her becoming an adult, but also because it is something she feels she needs to achieve before she achieves self-assurance. She searches for true freedom and wants desperately to be seen as an equal by others. She falls in love for the man she works for and is hesitant

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