In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, a young, normal girl, with a past full of loneliness and self-loathing, enters a welcoming home with her uncle who cares for her tenderly. As if Jane's life should not be filled with happiness, her dear uncle dies. This event leaves Jane living alone with her uncle's wife as these are his last wishes towards his wife. Mrs. Reed hates Jane because her husband loves Jane more than his own children. Despite Jane's condition, Jane finds a way to face and handle every challenge she encounters. Jane is only able to complete tasks like this because she is the new woman within herself, and she slowly lets it grow and bubble out of her to emerge as a new woman that no one has ever seen. One who is independent and able to make decisions without the help of her male counterparts. Many events in the younger years of Jane's life where filled with hatred towards her and herself, she filled these voids by reading of distant lands full of excitement and with the great tales of the past that enraptured and fascinated her young mind...