“I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me” (6).
One theme of Jane Eyre is resistance, which is clearly shown for the first time in this line. Here, Jane is resistant to force; she does not want to be locked up in the red-room, so she fights the force of Bessie and Miss Abbot opposing her. Later in the novel, Jane resists conformity, change, and divulgence, but her earliest resistances are against authority.
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