【正文】 . Jane once endeavored in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner. However, all John Reed39。s violent tyrannies, all Eliza and Geiana39。s proud indifferences, all Mrs. Reed39。s aversion and all the servants39。 partiality always wounded her selfesteem, and finally enraged her. She was only ten years old at that time, but she made strong resistances to their disservices. I would like to take some examples as follows: When she was beaten by John Reed without reason, she rebuked the ruffian boy loudly,“ Wicked and cruel boy. You are like a murderer— you are like a slave— driver— you are like the Roman emperors!” 4 When she was jailed in the red house by her aunt, her inner world was presented like this,“‘ Unjust! Unjust!’ said my reason, forced by the agonizing stimulus into precocious though transitory power。 and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression— as running away, or if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself lie. What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon! How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought! I could not answer the ceaseless inward questionwhy I thus suffered, now, at the distance of — I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.” 5 When Mrs. Reed said to John one day— “ I told you not to go near her。 she is not worthy of notice。 I do not choose that either you or your sisters should associate with her” 6, Jane heard of all what she said, then she cried out suddenly, and without at all deliberating on her words—“ They are not fit to associate with me.” 7 In order to send Jane to Lowood Orphanage, when Mr. Brocklehurst— the president of that institution came, Mrs. Reed stigmatized Jane as a girl who was apt to tell a lie. Little Jane was quite angry for that, then she gathered all her energies and launched Mrs. Reed in this blunt sentence—“ I am not deceitful。 if I were, I should say I loved you。 but I declare I do not love you。 I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed。 and this book about liar, you may give to your girl, Geiana, for it is she who tell lies, and not I.” 8 And before Jane was sent to Lowood Institution, she was brave to censure Mrs. Reed— “ I am glad you are no relation of mine。 I will never call you aunt again so long as I live. I will never e to see you when I am grown up。 and if anyone 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.” 9Then Mrs. Reed asked Jane how dared Jane affirm that, Jane responded like this,“ How dare I, Mrs. Reed? How dare I? Because it is truth. 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 backroughly and violently thrust me back— into the redroom, and locked me up there. To my dying day。 though I was in agony。 though I cried out, while suffocating with distress.‘ Have mercy! Have mercy, aunt Reed!’ 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. People think you a good woman, but you are bad, hardhearted. You are deceitful.” 10 Jane39。s life in Lowood Orphanage was begun with punishment to her body and injury to her soul, there she was educated in a strict and cruel manner. The president of Lowood Institution— Mr. Brocklehurst once tore down her to be a liar, and he manded someone to put her on a pedestal of infamy to general view. Although she couldn39。t bear the shame of that, she didn39。t lose her confidence to life because of that. On the contrary, she stirred herself and struggled for a better impression in others39。 heart. And she became more and more adamant towards life. In Lowood, Jane made friends with Helen who was a forbearing and submissive girl. Their characters formed a vivid contrast. For example, when their teacher Miss Scatcherd whipped Helen with a rod, Helen did no resistance. Then Jane said to Helen,“ If I were in your place I should dislike her。 I should resist her. If she struck me with that rod, I should get it from her hand。 I should break it under her nose.” 11But Helen responded like that,“ Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.” 12 After heard that, although Jane made little of what Helen had said, she still told Helen,“ A great deal: you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard。 I am sure we should— so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.” 13 From the above examples, we can prove that Jane was a courageous girl, whose conduct was sometimes treasonous, and in order to protect her selfesteem, she dared to rebel against the unfair society. Jane didn39。t despair because of her pitiful childhood and the insults she had undergone. Instead of handwringing, she gained more confidence and braveness to confront the hard life. She Was Courageous in Vindicating Independent Personality and Selfesteem, Pursuing Spiritual Freedom and Human Equality. After Jane stepped into the Thornfield Hall, she fell in love with the host of Thornfield