... character. Harsh institutions provide the rough circumstances needed to refine an individual's character. Lowood Boarding School contains the experience needed to produce positive refinement in its inhabitants. As Jane Eyre studies at Lowood, extreme physical deprivation confronts her. "Despite terrible deprivation, however, Jane is given something at Lowood gar more prescious than the food and clothing she had at Gateshead: a sense ... the amount of food and other necessities of the girls; she sees her students in a constant state of hardship, yet her outpouring of affection cannot coun...

• Word Count: 1900
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... by Mrs. Reed. He also had the five girls sent to school at Cowan Bridge, where conditions were poor, and when fever broke out at the school, two of the girls died from the disease. These aspects are correlated to Eyre at Lowood, where Helen Burns was not only admired as a friend, but ... also loved like a sister, and also is, her death suffered due to her meagre situation at the school. The settings of Jane Eyre unmistakably contain elements that characterized her ... by a sense of hopelessness and was said to have never entertained pleasant thoughts of the future. Charlotte Bronte was s...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the characters and Branwell but also other instances from their books and life. The most obvious example of a childhood experience coming out in a Bronte writing is Charlotte's representation of the Lowood School in Jane Eyre compared to her experiences at Cowan Bridge. While attending Cowan Bridge as a young child, both of Charlotte's older sisters passed away from tuberculosis, the same disease that ... earlier. (Bloom, 61) This left Charlotte as the eldest Bronte sibling without a mother causing a lot of the maternal responsibilities to fall to her. In "Jane Eyre" while at Lowood, He...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in her life is a continuing theme in the novel. Mr Brocklehurst, who "buys all our food and clothes", is domineering and attempts to make the girls at the Lowood school "humble" through the means of food deprivation, cutting off their hair, and allowing them no luxuries or comforts: "You are aware that my plan in bringing up ... actual fact that he is weak and sinful (something which a 1800s audience would perhaps not comprehend in a man of power, and would reject). The consequences are the downfall of the school and of Brocklehurst himself, as he loses all of his power and status. By a...

• Word Count: 1797
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate