During the course of the novel, Jane struggles to find the right balance between her moral duties and her earthly pleasures, between obligation to her spirit and care for her body. She meets three main characters who symbolize different aspects of religion: Mr. Brocklehurst, Helen Burns, and St. John Rivers. Each person represents a part of the religion that Jane ends up rejecting because she has her own ideas about her faith. Brocklehurst shows the dangers that Charlotte Brontë saw in the evangelical development of the 19th century. Mr. Brocklehurst receives the discourse of evangelicalism when he claims to purify his scholars of pride, but his technique for subjecting them to various privations and embarrassments, in the same manner as when he demands that the typically wavy hair of the one of Jane's cohorts being cut to stay straight, is totally unchristian. Clearly, Brocklehurst's banishments are difficult to bear, and her deceptive support for her own wealthy and lavish family in maintaining the Lowood people shows Brontë's attention to evangelical development. Helen Burns' accommodating and abstinent mode of Christianity, again, is excessively latent for Jane to adopt as her own, despite the fact that she cherishes and appreciates Helen for it. Many games later, St. John Rivers provides another model of Christian conduct. It is a Christianity of aspiration, genius and great self-righteousness. St. John urges Jane to renounce her passionate actions to fulfill her ethical obligation, offering her a lifestyle that might require her to betray herself. Despite the fact that Jane ultimately rejects each of the three models of...... middle of paper ... fog and fog-related plague" (3, 393-394). By the time Jane enters, Whitcross is a " calm, warm, flawless day” and it is depicted in charming terms, but the individuals living there demonstrate that they have no heart. The two individuals Jane thinks of most (Mrs. Temple and Rochester) are depicted. distinctly than any other person in the book, Mrs. Temple is described as having "refined features" (1.57). Rochester has a face "more remarkable for its character than for its beauty...her mouth, her chin, and her face." his jaw sinister' - yes, all three were very dark" (3, 365). Rochester asks Jane, "do you find me handsome?" and Jane says “No sir” (1, 149). Then again, Jane rejected St. John Rivers, and he was like a "Greek God", but lacked affection for Jane. He simply cherished his missionary work. Works Cited Brontë, Charlotte London: Penguin Books., 1996.