Jane's Fight

Jane's Fight

For her identity / individuality
1. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
For women
1. "It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.”
2. "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags."
Against class and society
1. "For the red room perfectly represents [Jane's] vision of the society which she is trapped" Gilbert and Gubar
Equality in her relationships
1. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh - it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave and we stood at God's feet, equal - as we are!”
2. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart!
3. “I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
For Justice
1. "Unjust!--unjust!" said my reason,”
2. “How dare I? Because it is the TRUTH.”

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