A heroine is a woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds (211). In Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, Jane is described as a woman with the mind and thoughts of a woman from the modern times. Jane Eyre does not perform a lot of heroic deeds, and she does not have a lot of qualities that would consider her to be a heroine today. Nevertheless, she is a heroine just because she becomes an independent, strong and educated individual at the age when women were under the authority of men. She, just like the woman from modern times does not think that women are any different from men, "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" (Bronte 96). Jane starts to prove her independence and equality with men from a very early age when she receives an education equal to any man's. Bronte's heroine is a very independent woman who does not want to become St. John's wife or Rochester's mistress. Jane does not belief in a marriage based on anything else than love, which is rarely true in the society of the Victorian's age. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Jane becomes an educated, independent, modern-age heroine, who knows what she wants from life and knows how to accomplish it.
             During the Victorian age woman were not well-educated, and many did not even know how to read or write. Jane does many things that women of her time did not do. She learns how to read and write as a little girl. Jane not only learns how to read and write, but she also goes to the Lowood school where she stays and continues her education for eight years, six as a student and two as a teacher. Most women even from modern times would not be able to live and study in the conditions of the Lowood school, which include burnt porridge for breakfast, miserably cold rooms, unflattering brown uniform
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