After eight successful years of listening to Miss Temple’s advice about life and its challenges, Jane’s expectations change and she yearns for a new lifestyle. Miss Temple was an inspiration to Jane because she made teaching enjoyable and fun for her, keeping her happy and alive. Miss Temple decides to leave Lowood and once she is gone, Jane discovers that her time at Lowood is no longer enjoyable and decides that it is …showed first 75 words of 372 total…

…showed last 75 words of 372 total…about for themselves and be their own helpers, and what is their resource?” (77) She wants to go out and seize the world under no ones rule, but realistically, because she is only eighteen years of age that is not what she will accomplish. Jane has always admired and learned from Miss Temple and she realizes that she too would like to move on to the next stage of her own life and acts upon it.