This scene takes place after Jane’s cousin John strikes her, causing her to fall and hit her head.
My head still ached and bled with the blow and fall I had received: no one had reproved John for wantonly striking me; and because I had turned against him to avert farther irrational violence, I was loaded with general opprobrium.
“Unjust!—unjust!” said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power.
–Jane Eyre,
Charlotte Brontë
Which statement best describes Jane’s perspective on her situation in this excerpt?
