Beauty is generally classified into two main categories: physical and mental. In the Charlotte Bronte's Jane Erye, the protagonist rejects by choice and submission, her own physical beauty in favor of her mental intelligence and humility. Her choice becomes her greatest benefit by allowing her to win the hand of the man of her desires, a man who has the values Jane herself believes in. She values her knowledge and thinking before any of her …showed first 75 words of 1886 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1886 total…of her life. All of her endeavors allow her to be the person of intelligence and morality that she desperately wants as a child, and this allows her to live a gifted life. In the end, she marries a man who desires her only for her mind, which fulfills one of her dreams, and her own inner beauty emanates as the sole reason why she won the hand in marriage of such a moral man.