“A new servitude! There is something in that,” I soliloquised (mentally, be it understood; I did not talk aloud). “I know there is, because it does not sound too sweet; it is not like such words as Liberty, Excitement, Enjoyment: delightful sounds truly; but no more than sounds for me; and so hollow and fleeting that it is mere waste of time to listen to them. But Servitude! That must be matter of fact. Any one may serve: I have served here eight years; now all I want is to serve elsewhere.”
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 10. Jane yearns for freedom and a change after serving at Lowood for eight years. But realistically she knows that what faces her outside the school is a continuation of her life of service – “a new servitude.”