2. Jane retreats to the window seat because in the beginning of the novel, it begins with her looking out of the window and looking at the rain pour down. It’s my idea that Jane finds the rain to be relaxing because she pulls up the window seat in the breakfast room to read her book. This is able to reveal something about her position in the Reed household which is that she doesn’t fit in. Her Aunt took her in, definitely not by choice and Jane just feels like a burden. The only reason why she isn’t allowed in the breakfast room with her aunt and cousins is because they said she wasn’t behaving. 4. Her attack is described as “a picture of passion”, which is actually very significant because it is described that way because of her fight with …show more content…
She rejects the idea of going to live with poor relations because, she doesn’t believe to have any other family and if she does, she wouldn’t want to live with them anyways. From the interchange between Jane and Mr. Lloyd, I think that Bronte did understand the minds and feelings of children very well because she uses a bit of her family history to describe Jane’s. 12. From what Jane knows about how she came to live with Mrs. Reed, was very little. She understood that she lived with her aunt but didn’t know the why or the how. Jane learns about what happened to her parents when she overhears Abbot tell Bessie who her parents were, and how they died taking care of the sick during a “typhus outbreak”. 14. The opinion that Mr. Brocklehurst forms of Jane isn’t a truthful one because on one hand, if Jane tell him that she is a good child, Mrs. Reed will contradict that. Mrs. Reed is just feeding lies about Jane to Mr. Brocklehurst. Jane is upset to be accused of deceitfulness by Mrs. Reed in front of Mr. Brocklehurst because she wants to make a good impression to Mr. Brocklehurst, and Mrs. Reed is making that very hard for her, almost as if she wants her life at school to be just as hard as it is at home. I don’t believe that Mrs. Reed means well because she wouldn’t be so blinded by her own children, who are spoiled by riches than Jane, someone who comes from nothing. She simply wants to get rid of Jane, so she can stop “bothering” her own …show more content…
When Jane comments that, “It was the hardest battle I had fought, and the first victory I had gained”, she thinks about how she was finally able to tell Mrs. Reed off for treating her with so much disrespect and in a way, Jane feels free. Her elation doesn’t last because she knows that no matter what she still lives under Mrs. Reed’s roof. I do believe it to be true that “A child cannot quarrel with his elders…without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse” because no matter how much an adult can disrespect a child, once that child disrespects back they feel “remorse” because they know it’s wrong, so why would one feel good about doing something wrong? It’s as if getting even, and getting is always the worst thing that someone can
Eventually, she returns to her former employer, discovering Thornfield in ashes, Mrs. Rochester dead, and Mr. Rochester blind and free from wedlock. Flooded with motifs, Jane’s continual struggles between her passions and responsibility prevail as the main theme of Bronte’s entrancing narrative. From the introduction of Jane’s orphan life, she battles between her ire at cousin John’s antics and obedience to Aunt Reed’s reluctant guardianship.
In the novel, Jane Eyre starts as a young girl of ten years old; she lives with her aunt Mrs. Reed and her cousins John, Georgiana, and Eliza. At Gateshead, Jane has undergone betrayal in the acts that the Reed family does not treat her as a part of their family. Mrs. Reed treats Jane unkindly and as if she was a victim to put it, in other words, Mrs. Reed says “ take her away to the red-room and lock her in there” (Brontë, Ch. 1). Mrs. Reed
The three events that mark Jane as an evolving dynamic character are when she is locked in the red room, self reflecting on her time at Gateshead, her friendship with Helen Burns at LoWood, her relationship with Mr. Rochester, and her last moments with a sick Mrs. Reed. Brought up as an orphan by her widowed aunt, Mrs. Reed, Jane is accustomed to her aunts vindictive comments and selfish tendencies. Left out of family gatherings, shoved and hit by her cousin, John Reed, and teased by her other cousins, Georgina and Eliza Reed, the reader almost cringes at the unfairness of it all. But even at the young age of ten, Jane knows the consequences of her actions if she were to speak out against any of them. At one point she wonders why she endures in silence for the pleasure of others. Why she is oppressed. "Always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, forever condemned" (Bronte, 12). Jane’s life at Gateshead is not far from miserable. Not only is she bullied by her cousins and nagged by her aunt, but help from even Bessie, her nurse and sort of friend, seems out of her reach. In the red room scene Jane is drug by Ms. Ab...
Mrs Reed keeps Jane only because of a promise she made to her husband on his deathbed. This abuse and neglect from her relatives forces Jane to be resentful and full of hatred. Later on Jane begins to stand up for herself. Once Jane begins to rebel to the abuse done by John and Mrs Reed, it is as if an uncontrollable beast had been unleashed inside of her.
In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte uses Jane Eyre as her base to find out how a character confronts the demands of a private passion that conflicts with her responsibilities. . Mistreated abused and deprived of a normal childhood, Jane Eyre creates an enemy early in her childhood with her Aunt Mrs. Reed. Just as Mrs. Reeds life is coming to an end, she writes to Jane asking her for forgiveness, and one last visit from her.
However, Mrs. Reeds treatment towards Jane is purely absurd and only provides the child with the bare necessities of life, such as food, clothes, and shelter. Her Aunt as well as her only cousins resent Jane. She is an outcast. but nevertheless at only the age of 10, she stays strong and endures all the brutality and criticism. Her strong sense of justice leaves her high spirited and firm, which unfortunately she reveals through severe.
Jane’s quest to find a sense of belonging follows her from the beginning, to the end of the narrative. Ever since Jane was a child, she was taught that she would never be accepted into society. From the start, she was never considered a member of the Reed family. They belittled her and treated her as if she were a servant, making sure she knew that she was not a part of their family. “They will
At the start of Jane Eyre, Jane is living with her widowed aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her family after being orphaned. Jane is bitterly unhappy there because she is constantly tormented by her cousins, John, Eliza, and Georgiana. After reading the entire book you realize that Jane was perfectly capable of dealing with that issue on her own, but what made it unbearable was that Mrs. Reed always sided with her children, and never admitted to herself that her offspring could ever do such things as they did to Jane. Therefore, Jane was always punished for what the other three children did, and was branded a liar by Mrs. Reed. This point in the book marks the beginning of Jane's primary conflict in the novel. She feels unloved and unaccepted by the world, as her own family betrays her.
The story begins with a young Jane Eyre who is essentially neither loved by anyone nor independent in nature. At this point in the story, the reader discovers that Jane is an orphan and is being supported by the Reed family. This discovery is made through the portrayal of John Reed when he is taunting Jane about her social status. John claims that since it is his family who supports Jane, it is their choice to dictate the circumstances under which she lives. In this case, Jane is not allowed to play with the younger Reed children or read a book that belongs to the Reeds. The fact that6 Jane is an orphan living under someone else's roof displays that she has not yet gained her independence.
She feels Jane was forced upon her family after the death of her parents. Against her husband's request, Mrs. Reed does not treat Jane like a human being and is constantly criticizing and punishing her. In one example Jane was keeping to herself, reading a book when her cousin John Reed decided to annoy her. "You have no business to take our books; you are a dependant, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought ...
The reader first learns of Jane when she is an inhabitant of Gateshead. At Gateshead, Jane was excluded from the rest of the family. She was merely an outsider looking in on a nuclear family, excluding the father, who had died. We know that Jane’s Uncle Reed, the father and dominant figure of Gateshead, when alive, was a kind man. He was the guardian for Jane and when dying made his wife promise to always care for Jane. After his death, his wife resented the little girl and did not want to care for her. Knowing what we know of family life in the nineteenth century, we know that Jane’s life would have been much different if her uncle Reed had not died. Being the master of the home one can assume that he would have made sure that everyone in the household would have treated Jane well and with love and respect. A father’s authority was unquestioned. Once Mr. Reed had died, the masculine dominance was somewhat given to his son who did not care for Jane and made her life miserable by all of his cruelty and abuse. Although he did not rule the home, due to his young age, his authority as seen by Jane was unquestioned.
The story begins as Jane lives with the Reed family in their home at Gateshead Hall. Here, the theme of education vs. containment develops immediately, as Jane is kept confined indoors on a cold winter day. The other children (Eliza, John, and Giorgiana) are "clustered round their mamma in the drawing-room" (Bronte: 39) being educated, as Jane had been excluded from the group. Jane tries to educate herself by reading from Berwick's History of British Birds, but once again, she is held back from her attempt at enlightenment by the abuse of John Reed, who castigates her and throws the heavy book at her. In anger, Jane cries out, "You are like a murderer - you are like a slave-driver - you are like the Roman emperors" (Bronte: 43). In this passage, Jane compares John Reed to a slave-driver because, like a slave-driver, he deprives Jane of her attempt at education and keeps her suppressed. Afterwards, Jane is blamed for the entire incident and...
She is said to treat her children as angels, she even turns a blind eye and deaf ear to her son's treachery and harassement of Jane. In addition to this, she even exaggerates the faults of Jane to Mr. Brocklehurst just so he can keep an eye on her while at school to make things far more difficult for her. Mrs. Reed is said to be a “stout” woman with “cold, composed gray
The opening scene sees Mrs Reed, who, “reclined on a sofa by the fire-side” surrounded by her “darlings about her,” looking “perfectly happy”, rejecting Jane from their company by highlighting her “inferiority” in lacking the “sociable and child-like disposition” that her own children possess. In a society where wealth, relations and connections, status, and education are most valued, “plain” Jane is perceived as lacking and as a result, is
At the beginning of the book, Jane was living with her aunt Mrs. Reed and her children. Although Jane is treated cruelly and is abused constantly, she still displays passion and spirit by fighting back at John and finally standing up to Mrs Reed. Even Bessie ‘knew it was always in her’. Mrs. Reed accuses Jane of lying and being a troublesome person when Mr. Brocklehurst of Lowood School visited Gateshead. Jane is hurt, as she knows she was not deceitful so she defends herself as she defended herself to John Reed when he abused her, as she said “Wicked and cruel boy! You are like a murderer – you are like a slave driver – you are like the Roman emperors!” to John Reed instead of staying silent and taking in the abuse, which would damage her self-confidence and self-worth. With the anger she had gotten from being treated cruelly, she was able to gain ...