Olivia Jane eyre

The theme of social classes and hierarchy is a topic in Jane Eyre that is very interesting to me. Jane's social stand point affects her throughout the entire novel. Starting in the beginning when Jane is outcastes by her aunt and uncle and cousins she starts out feeling less important at a very early age, as an orphan. Then, when she is at lowood she again feels socially unimportant because she is an orphan and is belittled by her teachers and headmasters. Then when she becomes a governess at Tornfield she is bossed around and is well aware of her social standpoint. Even when she confesses her love to Rochester and realizes it is a mutual feeling, she cannot marry him because she wishes to be his equal and knows that she stands much lower than him socially, and hopes to get an inheritance.