Which quote from the novel, Jane Eyre, best represents Charlotte Brontë’s theme of independence? “Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out

Which quote from the novel, Jane Eyre, best represents Charlotte Brontë’s theme of independence? “Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out his tongue at me as far as he could without damaging the roots…” “You ought to be aware, Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed: she keeps you: if she were to turn you off, you would have to go to the poorhouse.” “What do I want? A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances…” I had had no communication by letter or message with the outer world: school-rules, school-duties, school-habits and notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and costumes, and preferences, and antipathies—such was what I knew of existence