Examples Of Internment In Jane Eyre

At Lowood, a school which Jane is sent away to, she is again given the

Jane's childhood trauma results as a product of her times at Gateshed and Lowood. There were a series of irreversible problems that Jane had to deal with. She was born an orphan into a house devoid of love or respect for her. It is not overly emotionally healthy to live with the "ostracism by the Reed family and the unrelenting anxiety over the chidings of the servants, the violence of John Reed, and the punishments and berating of Mrs. Reed." (Ashe 10) Evidently, Jane had this lifestyle since she was little. This can be inferred from Mrs. Reeds loving statement "I hated it the first time I set my eyes on it-a sickly, whining, pining thing" (7)

However, Mrs. Reed’s persistence to make Jane’s life difficult even after she leaves her “care” suggests this. While Mr. Brocklehurst was shown to be difficult and even cruel man in his encounter with the girls and teachers at Lowood School, he would not have paid any more attention to Jane than the other girls if Mrs. Reed had not told him of Jane’s “tendency to deceit.” Indeed, it seems Mrs. Reed’s actions do not merely ignore Jane’s well-being; rather her actions actively hurt Jane’s well-being. This is shown when John throws a book at Jane, which cuts her and knocks her onto the floor. Rather than ignoring her pain, let alone helping her, Mrs. Reed further hurts Jane by ordering her locked in the room in which her late uncle died. These actions point not to mere negligence, but to

While at Lowood, she tries to adapt herself to her new surroundings that have new people and new rules. She meets Mr. Brocklehurst, who has particular ideas of how the girls at Lowood are to act, dress, and conduct themselves. Since Lowood is an all-girls institution, Brocklehurst implements strict rules that guides females in a particular way. Particularly, he teaches girls to “clothe themselves with shame-facedness and sobriety” (64). As a result, every girl at Lowood obeys the institutions rules. For instance, when Eyre attempts to hide her face with a slate, she accidentally drops the slate which results in everyone staring at her, but also, it causes Brocklehurst targets her. He says she is a careless girl and then says “let the child who broke her slate come forward” (65). Brocklehurst specifically targets Eyre when he

Reed. One of the punishments Jane remembers most vividly is her internment in the isolated and abandoned red-room, formerly belonging to Jane's deceased uncle. Jane is forced to inhabit the Red Room on her own while she is in a state of pain and fury, and her own abandonment inside the bedroom reflects the state of the room itself. After Jane is locked in the terrifying room that is believed to hold the soul of Mr.Reed, she becomes scared of these irrational thoughts of what could happened and she believed that he was here to punish Mrs.Reed for not fulfilling his death wish for her to take care of Jane. Jane begins to feel dizzy and fell asleep on the bed.

Jane has visions and day dreams since she was a child. The ‘Red Room’ is the place where Jane starts having visions, she has one of a strange figure when she had been locked in the red room by her Aunt Reed; “…the strange

Jane lived for ten years at Gateshead Hall with her uncle’s family, the Reeds. After her cruel aunt and cousins made her life miserable, they sent her to Lowood Institution, a

The novel begins with Jane Eyre as a young girl living with her aunt, who treats her horribly. She was always treated unfairly and punished for something she didn’t do or start. One day when she was locked up in what they called the Red Room she saw a ghost. This resulted in her fainting. When she woke

Jane recalls “he ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant: a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck” (640). Despite Jane’s perceived rightness of rebellion her actions are swiftly punished, and the nature of her punishment is incredibly significant. The red room in which she is locked is highly symbolic; in Sandra M Gilbert’s article “Plain Jane’s Progress” she refers to it as “a kind of patriarchal death chamber” (782) as Jane’s Uncle Reed passed away there.

One of Jane’s most impactful moments was when she was locked in the red room. In the line “Neither Bessie nor any one else will go into it at night, if they can help it; and it was cruel to shut me up alone without a candle,--so cruel that I think I shall never forget it”, you get an idea of how she viewed the experience and how it will affect

The interaction between both Mr Brocklehurst and Jane remind the readers of Jane’s general lack of respect for tyrannous authority figures; especially Mrs Reed. Jane’s inability to quietly accept fair treatment becomes pronounced in her interaction with Mrs Reed. The cruel, hypocritical master of the Lowood Institute, Mr Brocklehurst preaches a doctrine or privation, while stealing from the school to support his luxurious lifestyle. After a typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, Brocklehurst’s shifty and dishonest practices are brought to light and he is publicly discredited. Mr Brocklehurst becomes a very controversial and important character that Jane encounters early in the

Lowood also teaches Jane a great deal by giving her one of the greatest benefits to her life: a good education. Jane spends eight years of her life at Lowood where she, "had the means of an excellent education placed within my reach; a fondness for some of my studies, and a desire to excel in all" (pg. 115). Her education means more to her than her simple appearance. She had the option of just sliding by in her studies and leaving Lowood as soon as possible. Instead, she remains in a school

At Lowood Jane is repulsed by Mr. Brocklehurst and his “two-faced” character. Even so, Jane fines her first true friend. Helen Burns, another student at the school. By instruction, Helen is able to prove her messages. When Jane is punished in front of the whole school, she tries to accept it. But Jane still dreams of human affection and is deeply hurt when she is scolded. Jane goes as far to say, “If others don’t love me, I would rather die than live.” Helen’s response, “You think to much of the love of human beings,” (69). Through example Helen teaches Jane too. Helen is punished by, Miss Scatcherd because her finger nails were not clean. Jane wonders why she just took it and did not fight back. Jane says, “When we are struck without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should . . .” Helen replies, “Love you enemies; bless them that curse you . . .” (56). When Helen is dying of Typhus she reminds Jane, “I believe: I have faith: I am going to God,” (82). Jane is able to draw strength from Helen’s faith, making her stronger. Helen’s messages guide Jane through her turbulent life. This is how Jane learns not to worry so much how other think of her.

After confronting her aunt, Jane is shipped off to Lowood School. This is a school for young, dependent girls, who are mostly orphaned from at least one parent. This school’s name also has a meaning behind it, Lowood is a place where Jane is miserable at a portion of a time therefore it symbolized a “low” period in her life.

~A quote that shows that Jane was uncertain about Lowood, “I looked around; but the uncertain light.” (page 40) When Jane first arrived that didn’t tell her where she she, and the grounds surrounding the school were blighted and decayed. Lowood is not what Jane expected. Jane thought she would have more freedom. The next day began before dawn for her and the other students, the students were offered burnt and unappetizing