Audrey's Thoughts So Far

     Throughout Jane Erye, many different things have stuck out to me, but one quote that was said in chapter 4 has spoke to me the most out of all of them.

"I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to visit you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty. . . . You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. I shall remember how you thrust me back . . . into the red-room. . . . And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me—knocked me down for nothing. I will tell anybody who asks me questions this exact tale. ’Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt. It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped-for liberty. . . ."

This quote utterly shocked me, I always knew that Jane was getting very sick of her life and the people she was surrounded by, but I never thought she would have this in her. She has such a fiery spirit in her and through this outburst you find out a lot more about Jane. "I will never call you aunt again as long as I live." Saying something like this to someone who raised you your entire childhood takes a lot of courage. I like how she craves justice, self respect, and acknowledges the fact that she deserves love, even in this time period where most treatment is justified.  I think it also speaks about her new life that she is creating and how her childhood years are not going to set her back, but make a new drive and motivation from her feelings if anger and revenge.