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A comparative study of the heroins of Jane Eyre and Tess of the Durbervilles Jane Eyre and Tess of the Durbervilles have been enjoying enormous popularity since their publication , and their heroins Jane and Tess , both them embody the spirit of the feminism . Jane Eyre is rebellious and desires for equality and liberty . However , compared with Jane Eyre , Tess still has some limitations in her female consciousness . Tess is financially and spiritually dependent on Clare . In contrast , Jane Eyre is financially and airitually independent in her relationship with her lover , Mr. Rochesther . Jane Eyre tells the story of an orphan girl . Jane Eyre , the daughter of a poor person , lose both of her parents shortly after birth . She lives at the household of her aunt , Mrs. Reed , an unfeeling woman , who is rude and unjust to the poor orphan . Afterward , Mrs. Reed sends Jane to a charity school for poor girls in Lowood . Jane stays there for 8 years . Then , Jane gets a position of governess in the family of Mr. Rochester , who falls in love with Jane , and she with him . When Mr.Rochester is penniless and disabled , Jane becomes his wife . Tess comes from a farmers family . She lived a poor but peaceful life . But her mother urges Tess to claim kinship with the remaining Durbervilles . There she meets Alec Durbervilles , who shows off the estate and always seduces her . Bing humilated and resolute , Tess returns home . Despite the rumors all around , she gives birth to a child but dies soon . Tess leaves home and goes to work as a daiymaid at a distant farm , where she falls in love with Angel Clare . After Tess tells the secret , he leaves her in disgust . At the end of hope , the girl jumps into thap of Alec . When Angel appears again , she kills Alec . There are some similar qualities between Jane and Tess . Both of them think the marriage should base on the love . Janes cousin St John, a missionary, devoted himself to India , ever asked Jane to marry