Examples Of Isolation In Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is isolated at the beginning of the book. She's stuck with a family that hates her, and as she’s a powerless ten-year-old there is not much to be done about it. However, eventually she leaves and goes to school, where she finds herself in a similar situation.

She graduates and is able to become a governess for a french girl, and later a headmistress of her own school. In taking that position, she becomes truly self-sufficient. She needs to do this, because it is a part of her becoming an adult, but also because it is something she feels she needs to achieve before she achieves self-assurance. She searches for true freedom and wants desperately to be seen as an equal by others. She falls in love for the man she works for and is hesitant

to marry him because she would have to live off of his money. And because he keeps his crazy wife in the attic.
She leaves, and stays at a house with people, who she later discovers are her cousins. She becomes headmistress of a school and lives alone. St. John Rivers, one of her cousins who provided shelter, insisted that she marry him, but Jane still turns him down. Turning him down was necessary not only because she would have to suppress herself and be under him, but also because she is simply in love with someone else. Once she realizes these things and receives money from a recently deceased relative she goes back to be with her loved one. But when she arrives at the place that was once his home, she learns that his wife set fire to the house and jumped off of the roof. This leaves her free to finally marry Mr. Rochester and live happily ever after.
In the beginning, she is isolated and oppressed by her family. However, as she leaves she gains friends and refuses to be looked down on by anyone, despite their title or money. Jane follows her conscience by refusing to marry Mr. Rochester when she learns that he is still married.