Jane Eyre

Aunt Reed is the aunt Jane was left with when her parents died. Mrs. Reed is very mean and cruel to Jane, she sides with her children more than she does Jane. After throwing Jane into the red-room Jane says Mrs. Reed “knew not what you did” and she thought she was “only uprooting my bad propensities” (17).

Mr. Brocklehurst is an administrator at the Lowood School Jane attends. Mr. Brocklehurst is a hypocrite. He blames the students for actions he actually was guilty of. Mr. Brocklehurst treated Jane mean and cruel, He put a “shot of orange and purple silk pelisses and a cloud of silvery plumage” (50) on her. Then he turned to ask if the students of Lowood if they saw what was on her. He tells the students “ ‘you must shun her example’ ” (50).

A Christ Figure in Jane Eyre is Helen Burns who is a Christian friend that attends Lowood with Jane. Helen teaches Jane all of the right things to do in life. Helen was “very forgiving” (Foster 120). She was a “role within society” (Foster 118), well Jane’s society. Helen was “basically be a walking version of the New Testament instructions to ‘turn the other cheek’ and ‘bless them that curse you’ and ‘love your enemies’” (44). Jane says “ ‘I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly’ ” (44).

The drawings are portraits that Jane drew in the book. Jane makes the drawings all different. There are four drawings, the drawings “stand for only one thing” (Foster 98) and Jane’s drawings “have one mission to accomplish-convey a certain message” (Foster 98). One of the drawings was “In the clear embers I was tracing a view, not unlike a picture I remembered to have seen of the castle of Heidelberg” (88).

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...you if you would have let me; and I long earnestly to be reconciled to you now; kiss me, aunt’ ” (173).

Zoomorphism is the use of animal forms or symbols in literature.

" ‘Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it - the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose’ " (228) Bertha was Edwards’s insane wife. Bertha was being held captive like a bird in a cage. He wanted Jane to be held captive by him so he could control her.

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Shmoop Editorial Team. "Helen Burns in Jane Eyre." Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 05 May 2014.

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Radford VA: Wilders Publications, 2008. Print.