7. Jane Eyre

"'To speak truth, sir, I don't understand you at all...to which you might revert with pleasure'" (161).

Charlotte Bronte is speaking through Jane trying to emphasize the point to the reader that only you can become the person you are proud to be. No one else in this world has the power to make you some one you are content with being. The theme of being happy in your own skin and realizing what you are and are not able to do is reoccurring with every turn of the page. Helen knows that her teachers get frustrated with her, but she is aware that getting frustrated right back at them gets neither of them anywhere, so she stands there and understands that she is not perfect. Helen is comfortable as she is and enjoys being herself. She is unchanging throughout the story. Bronte's main message in this book, and from this quote is that one must want to change in order for it to happen and if you want to be someone you are proud of being, then do things you are proud to be part of.

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