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itution, Jane was tired of the routine. She desired to have a look at the outside world and see with her own eyes the persons, pictures which in the books she had read. So she advertised for a post, this was the beginning of her new and interesting life. All these are caused by the knowledge of reading. C. The Love of Jane Later, Jane was employed as governess of the illegitimate French daughter of Rochester in his country mansion, Thornfield. She worked very hard here and gradually attracted the attention of the wise and rich Rochester. How could she catch Rochester so deeply? It was not her pretty appearance or good shape but extraordinary temperament, brilliant mind, especially noble nature and unsullied character. To a considerable degree, all of her qualities came from the accumulation of education and the conversion of the knowledge. Jane had been described by servants like this: “If she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; at any rate, a beauty like Miss Georgiana (she is one of Aunt Reed’s daughters) would be more moving in the same condition.” One time, Jane met with Rochester. When she said that she had lived in Lowood School for eight years, Rochester sighed: “Eight years! No wonder you have rather the look of another world. I marveled where you had got that sort of face.” These can explain that Jane really had not an exterior to please others. But Bessie had also described Jane like that: “You were not beauty as a child, I dare say you are clever though.” It was the truth. In the eight years, Jane had learned to play piano, draw paint, both read and speak French, work on muslin and canvas, but the beautiful Miss Reeds could not do these well; These internal things that she had learnt made her no beauty but delicately beautiful. Rochester once told Jane: “You--- you strange, you almost unearthly thing! ---I love you as my own flesh. You--- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are--- I entreat to accept me as a husband.” Just because of the knowledge she had read from the books, she had an unearthly soul under ordinary appearance. Jane gradually grew up and the more she read books, the more she had knowledge ,and became more and more charming. When she slipped into the library of Thornfield, seeing these books in bookcase, she was contented temporarily and felt they could offer an abundant harvest of entertainment and information. When she was saved by Mr.St. John and lived with his sisters, she found they were more accomplished and read more books, so she began to follow in the path of knowledge they had trodden before her and devoured the books they lent her. One girl like this, everyone would like her, of course, Rochester was not an exception. Though there was something such as rank and wealth severing them widely, there was indeed something in Jane’s blood and nerves, which assimilates her mentally to Rochester. The mysterious thing is spirit, Jane’s spirit was improving along with the increase of the knowledge she had obtained from self-education, so she would enjoy similar spiritual state with Rochester . III. The Great Significance of knowledge to Females Today From Jane Eyre, it can be found that Jane’s success has the direct relationship with the knowledge she learned from the books and the knowledge she got in Lowood Institution. And whether knowledge is of great importance to females today or not is worth pondering. A. Females’ Beauty Coming from Knowledge How many