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‘Jane Eyre’ is a first-person narrative, related in the voice of the protagonist, or heroine." Jane is the ‘I’ of the story, the person whose voice is heard during the reading, therefore everything that happens is seen from her point of view. In general, the first point of view has advantages because the readers hear only one-side opinions; the person who is telling the story is involved in all the incidents. “(...) in that attitude his shape was seen plainly as well as his face; his unusual breadth of chest, disproportionate almost to his length of limb. I am sure most people would have thought him an ugly man; yet there was so much unconscious pride in his port; (...)” Its drawbacks are that the story is limited to what narrator saw or heard and to the narrator’s interpretation of the other characters. Ja