Charlotte Bronte seems to have had a very pragmatic attitude toward money. Money cannot guarantee happiness, but without it a person suffers physical deprivation and forfeits independence. To prove this statement (this essay) will have six sub topics to support it including: Jane as an orphan, Jane with the Reed family, Jane at Lowood, Jane at Thornfield, Jane at Whitcross and the village, Jane, and her found fortune. Using these sub topics, (this essay) will prove Jane's pragmatic attitude toward money. While proving this statement (this essay) will also show a few more aspects of Jane Eyre's attitude in general.
Jane is portrayed as the victim of charity. She is also seen in others' eyes as someone less or lower than themselves. Orphans are seen by wealthy people as children who must be in need of their charity and also who lack in morals, ambition, and culture. Jane tells about how she has no family; her mother and her father had the typhus fever and "both died within a month of each other- (Ch. 3).Jane also is shunned by the Reed family. Her cousin John makes Jane feel unequal to himself, "You have no business to take our books; you are a dependant, mamma says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not live here with gentlemen's children like us, and eat the same meals as we do, and wear clothes at our mamma's expense- (Ch. 1). Mrs. Reed even tells John that Jane "is not worthy of notice. I do not choose that either you or your sisters should associate with her- (Ch. 4). Being an orphan, Jane shows the reader that she has a need for money to live. Without money Jane will suffer physical deprivation. Jane's Aunt Reed might have been mean to Jane, but without her Jane would not have .
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been able to live. John was the one who said, "you are a dependent- (Ch.1), and Jane was a true dependent on Mrs. Reed. In chapter three, Bessie sings a ballad that describes the orphan's life as well.
