... were treated based on their wealth and their appearances. Charlotte Bronte depicts a women struggling with society in Jane Eyre. Jane has to live with her Aunt Mrs. Reed because her father died and she promised to take care of Jane. Jane is treated as an outsider and an inferior compared to the other ... the blame and was punished. She became a scapegoat for the other children in the house because if they did something wrong they could just blame Jane. Mrs. Reed children are taught how to live rich; Jane was taught how to be a servant. Before she is sent to the red room the servants tel...

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... for a young child. Such unfairness is exemplified early on with the incident between her and her cousin John, when Mrs. Reed tells Mr. Brocklehurst that Jane is a liar, and also when Jane revisits Mrs. Reed on her deathbed. The malicious treatment towards Jane is demonstrated in the very beginning of the story. Jane ... After hearing this Jane becomes excited about the chance to leave Gateshead. While waiting for the arrangements to be made, Jane receives even crueler treatment from Mrs. Reed and her cousins. Some of these treatments include no playtime in the nursery, having to eat her ...

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... through her interactions with other people and even in her everyday living. The author establishes Jane's character early in the novel through her confrontations with John and Mrs. Reed. The development of her character is central to the novel; meaning, practically the entire theme revolves around her personality and her coming of age. ... any longer, Jane erupts and goes flying at him with her fists clenched ready to kill. The two begin fighting and are rolling around on the floor when Mrs. Reed "comes to John's rescue". He, of course, lies and blames the entire thing on Jane, causing h...

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... through her interactions with other people and even in her everyday living. The author establishes Jane's character early in the novel through her confrontations with John and Mrs. Reed. The development of her character is central to the novel; meaning, practically the entire theme revolves around her personality and her coming of age. ... any longer, Jane erupts and goes flying at him with her fists clenched ready to kill. The two begin fighting and are rolling around on the floor when Mrs. Reed "comes to John's rescue". He, of course, lies and blames the entire thing on Jane, causing h...

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... and welcome at first, but in the end and outburst from either side will end in unhappiness. Jane proves this point when she lets passion overcome her in Mrs. Reed's presence. She says that "it seemed as if [her] tongue pronounced words without [her] will consenting to their utterance- (60). Passion took ... her over and she sprayed her hate unto Mrs. Reed without thinking of the consequences. After her outburst she says that she has "only bad feelings surging in [her] breast- (60). Later she says that she ... "will never call [Mrs. Reed] aunt again- (68) and she will never visit her whe...

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... and welcome at first, but in the end and outburst from either side will end in unhappiness. Jane proves this point when she lets passion overcome her in Mrs. Reed's presence. She says that "it seemed as if [her] tongue pronounced words without [her] will consenting to their utterance- (60). Passion took ... her over and she sprayed her hate unto Mrs. Reed without thinking of the consequences. After her outburst she says that she has "only bad feelings surging in [her] breast- (60). Later she says that she ... "will never call [Mrs. Reed] aunt again- (68) and she will never visit her whe...

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... in 1821, similar to the death of Eyre's real mother. The Reverend Bronte subsequently treated his children in a severe manner, comparable to the harsh and cruel treatment Eyre sustained 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 ... characterized by a sense of hopelessness and was said to have never entertained pleasant thoughts of the future. Charlotte Bronte was sent away to the Roe Head School in 1831, where Mrs. Wooler was the head teacher. The plainness of Eyre, w...

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... . Mr. Brocklehurst is a pastor and the founder of Lowood. He humiliates Jane in front of the whole school after he hears horrible things about her from Mrs. Reed. This causes Jane a great deal of distress because she was so happy to have a fresh start. Miss Temple was a teacher at school. She ... me" (Bronte 76) Jane decided it was time to leave Lowood and move onto another life. She advertised in the newspaper to be a governess. A woman, Mrs. Fairfax, writes her back informing her of a job in Millcote. Jane accepts the offer and leaves Lowood School to work at Thornfield Hall. When Jane ...

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... thus questioning him against his will." This shows that he isn't what most thinks of as a conventional hero, once again playing into the Byronic hero roll. Before this meeting, Mrs. Fairfax describes Rochester as, "rather peculiar, perhaps: he has traveled a great deal, and seen a great deal of the world, I should think. I dare say he is clever," (89). Since the ... , Branwell succumbs to this. Branwell got a tutoring job with a family, named the Robinson's, and he was fired shortly after for having an affair with Mrs. Robinson. After Mr. Robinson died a few years later, Branwell propose...

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... from childhood to middle adulthood. After being sent to a boarding school, Jane finds a job working as a governess at Thornfield for the secretive Mr. Rochester, and coworker servants Grace Pool and Mrs. Fairfax among others. Jane finds working a mostly pleasant experience except for some occasional violent or maniacal experiences. She assumes these events are attributed to a servant named Grace Pool. Yet, all ... a clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber; though it originated but in one, and I could have pointed out the door whence the accents issued. 'M...

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... in, but passes away shortly after. Before he dies, Mr. Reed makes his wife promise to take care of Jane after he passes away. Mr. Reed's fondness towards Jane causes Mrs. Reed to resent Jane thereafter. Jane's aunt feels that Jane's arrival to her home caused her husband to divert his attention away from his own children. So, she treats Jane ... terribly after Mr. Reed passes away. Jane's cousins constantly tease her and call her a lowly orphan among other things. Although Mrs. Reed has forbidden Jane to play with her cousins, they often find the time to harass her. In one instance her ...

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... revealed. Just by leaving her glass slipper on the stairs, she is able to find happiness when the prince chooses her to be his wife. Living with her evil Aunt Mrs. Reed, and her three horrible kids, Eliza, John, and Georgiana, Jane's life is made miserable every day. Just like Cinderella she is constantly beaten up by John but is blamed ... the two is that if a certain person had stayed alive, each young women may have not been in the situation that haunted her. In Chapter 4 Jane Eyre asks her aunt Mrs. Reed, "What would Uncle Reed say to you if he were alive?". This meaning, if uncle R...

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... cousin John. Settings that include the Red Room in which Jane Eyre is locked in as a child and the Attic in which Bertha Mason is locked. Also Characterisations of Bertha, Mrs. Reed and to some extent Jane herself shed light on the use of violence. Charlotte Bronte   µses violence throughout the book to keep the reader interested and at the same ... Room, which her uncle died in, and her transfer to Lowood, which is an institution for orphaned children. Here Bronte   £haracterised violence through John by him attacking Jane, and Mrs. Reed by her locking Jane up in the Red Room. The ...

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... the garden and he tells Jane that he is going to marry Blanche just to see how she reacts before proposing to her. Rochester gives off an intelligent vibe and Mrs. Fairfax proves this when she says, "I dare say he is clever: but I never had much conversation with him" (Bronte 108). Rochester also follows the guidelines of showing a mysterious appearance. The ... . Next, Rochester was a wanderer and was cursed with a sin he was forced to hide. Rochester enjoyed wandering about and was at many times away from Thornfeild, touring around the world. Mrs. Fairfax once said that she would not b...

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... person. The incident in the red room contributes greatly to this factor only because it helped her move on in life and not stay where she was in Gateshead. When Mrs. Reed throws her in the room and she thinks she sees what appears to have taken the form of a ghost, she is petrified and screams mercy at the top of ... her lungs. Now Mrs. Reed never should have kept her in the room, but when Jane passes out, she is immediately retrieved and taken to her bed and consulted by a doctor. While Jane sat ... and never quit trying. Mr. Reed's ghost made Jane recognize the fact that he watched o...

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... cousin John. Settings that include the Red Room in which Jane Eyre is locked in as a child and the Attic in which Bertha Mason is locked. Also Characterisations of Bertha, Mrs. Reed and to some extent Jane herself shed light on the use of violence. Charlotte Bronteë uses violence throughout the book to keep the reader interested and at the ... Room, which her uncle died in, and her transfer to Lowood, which is an institution for orphaned children. Here Bronteë characterised violence through John by him attacking Jane, and Mrs. Reed by her locking Jane up in the Red Room. The room bein...

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... sources. While Jane was youthful, she had just a Biblical course outlook point of view consolidated with the hopeless passionate states of her surroundings. This thus prompted Jane being mean with Mrs. Reed. Despite the fact that Jane thinks Helen may have admittance to some profound spiritual truth, Jane cannot comprehend Helen's "convention of continuance" or her sensitivity for her torturer. Dissimilar ... attack the first does not necessarily imply to attack the last". In Jane Eyre, Bronte supports the topic that standard actions are not moral through the ordinary personality of Mrs...

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... and beating her when she disobeys. Even though John was only a few years older than Jane because he was the male at Gateshead, not only Jane but also his mother, Mrs. Reed and the servants of the house, subconsciously made him the master of the house. If the binary opposition of master and slave didn't follow a preexisting patriarchal structure than Jane ... or even Mrs. Reed would have had just as much right to be the master as John. Even when Jane finally leaves Gateshead it isn't long until another master comes to fill his ... ...

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... Scratcherd is only trying to help him to ensure I live my life cradled in my faith. I could bear the torture emotionally and physically given myself a sharper focus. You claim that Mrs, Scratcherd is cross and cruel, however do not judge at face value Jane she is but severe, it is my duty to bear the consequences of my faults, if it ... however it is not violence that best overcomes hate nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. Your passionate emotions do not allow you the refrain needed in order to forgive Mrs Reed, by no doubt she has caused impenetrable harm to your soul, from...

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... a secondary member of the Reed household. Jane wants more than anything at this time to be loved and she feels she will not have it because of al the things Mrs. Reed told Mr. Brocklehurst, and she displays her temper again, "I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you but I declare I do not love you . . ." (32). This fight led to ... God's feet, equal- as we are!" (268). When Rochester proposes marriage to Jane it totally takes her by surprise. Rochester fills her emptiness. Jane grows when she takes Helen's advise. Mrs. Reed is on her deathbed and Jane actually comes back ...

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... Bertha's existence tears apart Jane and Rochester on their wedding day. Until her wedding day, Bertha Mason's existence remained unknown to Jane. Jane was very close to being the next Mrs. Edward Rochester until her wedding was disturbed by two men. One of these men being Richard Mason who revealed to her Bertha Mason and her real identity as the wife ... seek news of Mr. Rochester, at which time she was told that a fire had destroyed the great manor. Jane, referring to the fire, inquired, " Was it suspected that this lunatic, Mrs. Rochester, had a hand in it?" to which the innkeeper wh...

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... she has read about. She fully understands the unfairness of her situation, and she is even able to understand what Mrs Reed must feel, the woman who is partly the cause of Jane's suffering. She can intelligently consider what has caused Mrs Reed to be so cruel: "how could she really like an interloper not of her race"; "It must have been ... ...

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... years later, the indication of her change in mentality is evident when she not only returns to Gateshead on her aunt's request, but has learned to freely and fully forgive Mrs Reed for all injustices dealt to her. Jane is able to do this, as her pride has transformed into self-respect, giving her the strength of character to forgive such ... given by God; sanctioned by man." She reminds Rochester: "We were born to strive and endure." Jane is torn between her conflicting emotions; passion and reason. Unlike her confrontation with Mrs Reed, Jane's strong morals guide her to reason, and sh...

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... value seems the opposite to Brocklehurst's character, yet it shows that he gains joy from meeting a new pupil, and interrogating her in order to subdue her. As the extract continues, Mrs Reed explains to Mr Brocklehurst about Jane's apparently disturbing character, and he believes every word, "Sorry to hear it! She and I must have some talk." His character is in complete ... the inestimable privilege of her election" again Lowood, we know will not be a privilege, and Bronte uses the satirical metaphor of "nursery of chosen plants" that Bronte uses to persuade Mrs Reed to send Jane there...

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... in the location of Gateshead, which is the first part of the five-act play. Jane deals with her family in Gateshead. Here she interacts with her cousins and aunt, Mrs. Reed. In Gateshead, Jane is a nave little girl with a temper, she is also physically abused there. Her ideals and morals haven't taken form yet, which is why she gets angry ... with everyone including Mrs. Reed and Mr. Brocklehurst. After leaving Gateshead, Jane travels to Lowood, which is the second place she lives. In Lowood she meets new people, like Helen Burns. Helen teaches her ... ...

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