Jane is a very isolated and unloved child and this will be looked at throughout my essay. The novel of Jane Eyre is entirely written in the first person narrative this allows us to understand what Jane thinks and feel’s, her private thoughts, how she reacts to certain events where she is dealt with unfairly and my essay will focus on several incidents which occurred.

The opening of the book immediately presents the mood of hopelessness and misery through the use of pathetic fallacy, for example:

‘The cold wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and rain so penetrating.’

These descriptions of the weather give the impression of sadness. The descriptions are sombre and penetrating, giving a miserable and unwelcoming scene, which is a reflection of Jane’s situation.

Jane has a completely different life to the Reed children; Jane is not accepted as one of the Reed children, she is not even acknowledged as one of the servants of the house, this is one way in which she is isolated. Mrs Reed shows that Jane is not classed as a child along with Eliza, John and Georgiana, when they are all surrounding Mrs Reed at the fireside, Mrs Reed ‘d

When she is being taken to the red-room Jane is scared as she knows that the red-room is the place where he uncle died, she also knows that no other person living at Gateshead enters that room. This is again back to how they do not take into consideration Jane’s feelings, whether she is scared and the fact that she is only a child of ten years so is obviously going to be terrified. The room is completely red; the colour red is a passionate colour and reflects the colour of blood which causes it to be very daunting. When she is locked in the room Jane begins to let her imagination go wild, causing her to think a light glaring in the room to be her dead Uncle coming back, this frightens her causing her to cry and beg to be let out. However when Bessie comes to see what is happening unfortunately for Jane she doubts what she is saying. As soon as Mrs Reed came to see what’s happening Jane lost hope and knew that there was no chance of being let out. Even though Mrs Reed has children of her own she still has no pity for Jane. This, once again, shows Jane’s isolation, because she is a child with no-one, not even one person to help her. All this and the fear of being in the red-room with a ghost causes Jane to have nervous break down and faint. This is a seriously depressing part of the book as a little girl who is terrified and wants some love and affection is locked in a room alone.

Mr Lloyd, although Jane had no idea who he was, made her feel protected, she knew he was a stranger and not belonging to Gateshead and not related to Mrs Reed. This is really upsetting as it is the complete opposite of what one might think of a child. A child is usually very shy and scared of strangers, and only comfortable with familiar people, however Jane has not one person in Gateshead who she is happy to be with, so a stranger is comfort. This shows Jane hates who she lives with and will do anything to just have someone there for her to hold her and love her.

Bessie’s song was extremely depressing; the song was about a ‘poor orphan child.’ It says to protect the orphan child and this could be that Bessie wanted to make Jane know that God is there to protect her, for example:

‘vast sweep of Artic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space’

Some topics in this essay:
Nevertheless Jane, John Jane, Lloyd Jane, Jane Eyre, John Georgiana, Jane Jane’s, John Reed, Jane God, Lowood Reed, Artic Zone, reed children, causes jane, children jane, jane accepted reed, feel guilty, orphan child’, accepted reed, jane accepted, jane’s future, reed children jane, isolated unloved, jane leaves,