In the Victorian era, women were doomed to pass their lives in undisturbed tranquillity and passivity; it was also predestined what modes and methods of escape were accepted as appropriate. Physically running away was traditionally not one of them. However, as Sarah Gilead observes, “[r]epeatedly, Jane [Eyre] inhabits a literal or metaphorical structure, a house, a geographic setting, a social situation, and flees it” (304). In my essay, I analyse her active, by Victorian standards unfeminine, way of escaping restricting or oppressive situations, laying special emphasis on her relationship with other female characters, Rochester, and St John Rivers.