Jane Eyre - Lowood
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- Created on: 29-11-19 13:16
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- Lowood
- 'Lowood
- Name suggests 'low point' for Jane
- Symbolic prison - 'wood' - Jane is enclosed and trapped
- Miss Temple
- First appearance - signifies calm/ composed atmosphere
- In authority: 'erect bearing'
- Gentle and grave character.
- 'Pale and large forehead' - symbolic of great intelligence.
- 'Temple' - suggest religion - she's strongly religious, although in the opposite way to Mr Brocklehurst.
- Other teachers
- Miss Miller - ordinary, under-teacher, more timid.
- Miss Scatcherd - 'scratchy' - constantly pouncing on/ abusing students.
- Helen Burns
- Quiet, gentle, spiritual, pious, obedient, submissive.
- Doesn't believe in revenge.
- Helps Jane overcome her hatred and need for revenge against Mrs Reed, helps her to find peace.
- Teaches Jane about love, about living to the end rather than mulling over the wrongs that have been done to her.
- Helps Jane by admiring her submission, gives her the courage to keep going.
- Jane's behaviour
- Still bottles her feelings
- Does her best to clamp down on them.
- Initially wishes for revenge against the Reeds
- Helen helps her overcome her bitter feelings.
- Learns to be submissive and obedient, without being resentful.
- Grows mature, quiet and intelligent.
- Still bottles her feelings
- Religion
- Very important during Victorian time
- Success seen as reward of virtue, failure as punishment of vice.
- Period of stern morality.
- Helen Burns
- Admits she has faults, understands she needs forgiveness, practices what she preaches.
- Has sympathy for others, believes everyone can change/ get forgiveness.
- Doesn't dwell on wrongs of this world, looks forward onto Eternity.
- Mr Brocklehurst
- Scares girls into repentance, doesn't help them to know how to be good/ pure-hearted.
- Great HYPOCRITE - Constantly pointing out other people's sins, never his own.
- Believes the girls should give up everything enjoyable in life, purposely be miserable.
- Hypocritical as his own daughters have a luxurious life
- Thinks the girls should be 'shame-faced' and humiliated.
- Doesn't believe that sinners can get forgiveness
- Very important during Victorian time
- Direct reference to reader
- Makes reader think harder about Jane's words.
- Creates friendly, personal, confiding tone - Inviting atmosphere.
- Jane explains herself to the reader - understanding about her inner character/ motives.
- Turning Point - Ch 10
- New start for Jane - craves a new life, more excitement & purpose.
- Stops living life she's been forced to live by her superiors, takes control of her own situation.
- Pathos
- Evokes pity or sadness from reader
- Jane creates it by describing awful living conditions at Lowood.
- 'Lowood
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