Jane Eyre: Question 8

Jane Eyre reflects events in history of its time period pretty accurately, to some extent, I believe. One big event being how greatly orphans were neglected. In the very beginning it is a scene showing Jane finally having it with her cousin and defending herself at last. Because she is the little ole orphaned niece,aunt Mrs. Reed automatically takes her sons side without even asking for Jane's side. Her punishment is even more peculiar. They lock her in the red room. *duhduhduhduhhhhhh!* This is simply a room that is furnished in mostly red and the occasional white piece. We can infer that Jane has been locked in there before by the way she has to be forcibly dragged in the room. Not only is Jane locked up in the ominous red rooms because of the fact she is an orphan, but then she is sent to Lowend, a school for orphaned girls. She's pretty psyched about going to school until she figures out this place is worse than the Reeds house. Here, the girls are barely fed, barely clothed, and punished severely for the most minute mistakes. Uncool. In Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte shows that her ideas of the responsibilities between servant-master are a little different. Jane, the governess, falls in love with Rochester, the master, who likewise falls for her. This was not typical of the time period. An event that probably influenced Bronte in writing this novel may have been suffering in like ways to Jane in her childhood.