Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

The novel that I'm studying is called Jane Eyre. It's written by a

famous writer called Charlotte Bronte. The novel is about a girl

called Jane Eyre who is living with her uncle who is called

Mr.Brocklehurst. She is living with him because her parents are dead.

She is treated very ruthlessly and brutally by the family and she

hates it so much. She is later sent to an Institution called Lowood

which is owned by Mr.Brocklehurst in which she is also treated

cruelly. However she manages to find herself a friend called Helen,

who is suffering from cancer which Jane doesn't know about until later

on in the story. We later on find out the harsh conditions that the

children are living in and how Jane is treated by Mr. Brocklehurst as

we progress through the story.

In chapter 7 Charlotte Bronte reveals the harsh conditions at Lowood

School (She reveals the characters backgrounds in depth). The younger

students experienced a more difficult life than the older ones because

usually the older students coaxed or menaced the little ones out of

their portion or they would deny the chance of any little girl going

next to the fire as they would immediately surround the fire in a

double row. The clothing they wore in the cold weather was not

appropriate as they did not have gloves, boots or thick clothes. They

would not get proper meals and if they made a mistake they would be

punished severely. Helen who is a timid girl, gets told off regularly

for tiny mistakes she makes even though she's ill. There is no

favouritism or sympathy in Lowood by any of the teachers apart from

one teacher called Miss Temple, who has a hea...

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...to die.

Charlotte's both sisters died from Tuberculosis and they went through

harshness and cruelty because their mother died and their father was

uncommunicative. Charlotte describes the harsh conditions at Lowood

and also includes that Helen is dying from tuberculosis and this is

what she experienced in her life when her two sisters died from

Tuberculosis.

Charlotte Bronte uses very effective words in conveying the conditions

at Lowood. The reader is drawn in the scene and the characters she

describes give us the clear understanding of what their personality is

like e.g. Mr. Brocklehurst is a very tough and stubborn man, so

Charlotte uses a phrase, "a black column", to describe him. Her themes

are based on real life as to what the conditions in the Victorian Era

were, and what she has been through in real life.