“The fairest in all the land”, of how many endearing characters in classic literature can this well-known phrase be said? The list is endless but surely does not include Jane Eyre. She is described as a simple, poor Quaker woman-like woman; she had no prominent features, was not draped in extravagant dresses, tailors were not lined up in front of her door, carried away by her angelic beauty. She was a simple woman with simple possessions and simple needs. Perhaps, in a side plot, Jane was indeed the fairest of them all. What would the well-known story have looked like then? Overall, the entire plot of the novel Jane Eyre would have been very different if Charlotte Brontë had chosen to make Jane beautiful. Charlotte Brontë wrote the novel focusing primarily on Jane's inner thoughts and how she viewed the world around her. Although Jane was simple on the outside, her thoughts and heart were beautiful; Isn't that much more important than external beauty? If Jane had been beautiful, the novel would have focused more on what was happening outside of her, rather than what was happening inside of her; his emotions, thoughts and beliefs. If Charlotte Brontë had created Jane as a beautiful lady left by the death of her parents as a poor orphan, her relationship would have been radically different from that of the simple Quaker Jane. She wouldn't have been invisible, that's for sure. Blanch Ingram and her group of ladies wouldn't have passed her without noticing. Maybe they would have handed him their noses again, but out of jealousy rather than pride. And Mr. Rochester? Mr. Rochester is delicate. Would he still have loved her if she had been beautiful? Did he love her because she was plain and simple, unlike the other women he had known... middle of paper... forever with those who fear him. Jane knew it; she knew that beauty, money and all the possessions of the world would wither and the wind would carry them away as if they were grass. She trusted in the Lord and His faithful love which endures forever and she was fulfilled in this. Jane said it herself: “I am not an angel, and I will not be one until I die: I will be myself. Dear reader, I pray that you also have the strength to fight the toughest battle and remain yourself until the day you die. Know that you may not be beautiful by the world's standards, but you are beautiful in someone's eyes. Know that all the money in the world can't buy you anything worth having. Don't conform to what the world wants you to look like and be, but be brave enough to stand alone and be none other than yourself and who God created you to be..