Continuing on the previous chapter, Jane Eyre shows us a lowly governess can win the heart of a privileged employer through Love. Love transcends class, status barriers. Ickapoo can thus overcome his loneliness by not seeing humans as lesser being and mingling with beings who may be more different than similar to him.
One of the earliest criticisms of Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre was that it was fundamentally anti-Christian in its composition (Elizabeth Rigby, The Quarterly Review, 1848) because it allowed Jane, of impoverished and deprived circumstances, to rise socially and financially and thus defy God's providence for the classes. This is of course, a very rigid reading of God's providence as social mobility has existed throughout the ages and in some quarters is the very essenc
