In the first twelve chapters of Jane Eyre, the main character Jane is faced with oppression and resistance without any words spoken. Audre Lorde’s analysis from The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action greatly explains Jane’s inner self, “What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and at, tempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears.” from these lines it connects to the exact words I’d imagine Jane had in her mind as she was locked in the red room. The silence she overcame, all the words she’d bottled up every time she was accused of a false accusation. The scene on page 30 where Jane overcomes the silence and oppression her aunt had placed her in. “I am glad you are no relation of mine: I will never call you aunt again so long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up” After assuring of her departure, she bluntly expressed her powerful thoughts and she also threatens to tell everyone the cruelties she faced. As in Lorde’s writings, she strongly encourages women specifically to speak up, to turn silence into action, overcoming the fear because that is the way to survive and to grow. The resistance and oppression Jane faced were not only based on her class but also her gender. Audre Lorde speaks of gender inequality in The Master’s Tool Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House. This relates to Jane’s experiences with oppression at Lowood and from Lorde’s message, the only one that can save her is herself, by speaking up and acknowledging the possibilities there are.