What are some of Jane Eyres personal insecurites?

Question

How does it affect her and her outlook on social class?

Answer 1

Jane possesses a sense of her self-worth and dignity, a commitment to justice and principle, a trust in God, and a passionate disposition. Her integrity is continually tested over the course of the novel, and Jane must learn to balance the frequently conflicting aspects of herself so as to find contentment.
An orphan since early childhood, Jane feels exiled and ostracized at the beginning of the novel, and the cruel treatment she receives from her Aunt Reed and her cousins only exacerbates her feeling of alienation. Afraid that she will never find a true sense of home or community, Jane feels the need to belong somewhere, to find “kin,” or at least “kindred spirits.” This desire tempers her equally intense need for autonomy and freedom.
In her search for freedom, Jane also struggles with the question of what type of freedom she wants. While Rochester initially offers Jane a chance to liberate her passions, Jane comes to realize that such freedom could also mean enslavement—by living as Rochester’s mistress, she would be sacrificing her dignity and integrity for the sake of her feelings. St. John Rivers offers Jane another kind of freedom: the freedom to act unreservedly on her principles. He opens to Jane the possibility of exercising her talents fully by working and living with him in India. Jane eventually realizes, though, that this freedom would also constitute a form of imprisonment, because she would be forced to keep her true feelings and her true passions always in check.
Charlotte Brontë may have created the character of Jane Eyre as a means of coming to terms with elements of her own life. Much evidence suggests that Brontë, too, struggled to find a balance between love and freedom and to find others who understood her. At many points in the book, Jane voices the author’s then-radical opinions on religion, social class, and gender.

Answer 2

Jane has several although she hides them well and manages to overcome.
1. She has always been thought to be plain/ugly, and in a time when women really had nothing to fall back on but marriage, that's a big hurdle to overcome. She's too poor and too plain to "land a man," so Bronte purposefully created Jane to be a woman in a situation where she is completely dependent on her brains and morality. Her uneasiness in high society situations is apparent and it stems from the idea that she is plain and unlovable (the bad treatment from her relatives after she was orphaned didn't help that either).
2. She is independent. That's a bad thing for a Victorian woman. You were supposed to be married, get married, etc. Jane wants marriage, but equality as well. She is totally ahead of her time and is painfully aware that she probably won't find a man to marry that would allow her the freedom and independence she wants. Rochester allows her passion, but she knows he'll be her master after marriage. St. John would allow her to have an opionion, but she wouldn't be free to love since her heart is with Rochester.

She is constantly at war with her independence and brains and her plain looks and society. Society wanted beautiful and quiet and Jane was plain and opionionated.

Answer 3

She considers herself unattractive and socially somewhat inept. However, when St. John Rivers tries to persuade her to marry him even though he loves someone else, telling her that she's not made for love, she digs in her heels and refuses him.