Response: "How Does Jane Survive?"

Jane Eyre is a women who is willing to excel at everything that is thrown at her, even when knowing the hardships that are to come. "I was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths." (Bronte, 6) Jane continues to move on with her life and do the best she can to go as far as she can with her life, while other characters in the novel tend to give up the hope the need for a happy ending. Jane also is a good natured and kind character throughout the book. Most of the characters, such as the ones who tortured Jane in her earlier life, ended up having a bad end in the novel. One of these characters is John Reed, who commits suicide halfway through the book. "Why, you see, Miss Eyre, it is not a common mishap: his life has been very wild: these last three years he gave himself up to strange ways, and his death was shocking." (Bronte, 237)