... to similar changes in the nature of Jane's experience. Each location represents a stage both physical and experiential. The significance of the five locations (Gateshead, Lowood, Thornfield, Moor House and Ferndean) lies in the fact that each house is a metaphor for each of the stages through which Jane has pass on ... authority over her. Jane's situation and character drive her to lonely introspection. "You are passionate, Jane, that you must allow,"" Mrs. Reed points out. Lowood is also a place of severe cold. It is a place where Jane learns, at the fireside of Miss Temple, to curb her ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... talks about the typical features of the genre in his book. Distinguishing element for a gothic novel is that the act takes place in a big mansion or old house (GatesHead hall, Lowood school andThornfield hall). This place is full of veiled secrets that disturb the characters psychologically or physically, as well as secret rooms and dark interiors. The gothic genre often includes the ... to Heilman it is via the gothic features in this scene that Brontë shows how Jane's self esteem and feeling of value grow (97). Then, when Jane moves to Lowood School and encounters "Helen Burns", the ...

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... , write, etc. In Jane Eyre, Jane sits in a small study so she can secretly read. After, Bronte's mother's death, Mr. Bronte sends his children to school. His daughters went to a boarding school which was described much like Lowood School in Jane Eyre. "Our clothes were insufficient to protect us from the severe cold: we had no boots, the snow got into our shoes and ... melted there. . ." (Jane Eyre- NAWL 509). These were the conditions that Bronte and her sisters dealt with at their school which eventually took the lives of two ... sisters connects to the death of Helen Burns in Jane Ey...

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• Grade Level: High School