After read“Hope”Is The Thing With Feather “by Emily Dickinson, this poem is saying that I feel like this poem’s idea has a lot of similarity with Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is a woman who pursues to have a freedom, equality and self-respect life. She put these as her hopes. At Rochester’s house, she never felt inferior because of poverty and thought that everyone in here are equal. Because of this, Rochester felt she was a very special woman and fell in love with Jane. On the day of married, Jane knew that Rochester already married and his wife still alive, she felt she had to leave, and said “Still indomitable was the reply: “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad—as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation. . .. They have a worth—so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane—quite insane: with my veins running fire, and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs”(Jane pg284). Jane thought her self-respect has been deceived, although she still likes Rochester, but, she can’t accept Rochester  married and if she continue to live with Rochester, she will be despised by others and lose her “hope”, too. She did not want to have this life without any respect. So, she did not seek any compensation and decide to leave and to continue to pursue her “hope”.

-pingsheng chen