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How Does Jane Eyre Change In The Victorian Time

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Today I will be writing about victorian school and Will also be referring to the stories Hard times and Jane Eyre I will try to explain to you why schools changed in a way. Victorian schools were known to be cruel and kids were embarrassed and punished to help them learn. Kids were just looked as books that you had to add words to but only with facts. Schools today are not even close to that, we still have to learn facts but we learn a variety of different things. Schools are better in a way kids still don't really want to come but at least we are not punished in a way that lowers our confidence. Is falling back on this method a good idea or bad idea? The story told by Charles Dickens Hard times is about Kids in the victorian time. This story describes the brutality of the class rooms back then. When he begins to tell the story he is asking certain questions to the kids and he explains that he really teaches is facts that he doesn't care about teaching anything else but just facts. He ask a little girl's name and makes fun of her name he totally tells her to change her name because its ugly. The teacher does not really care about the physical or emotional abuse he is putting them through all he cares about is them learning the facts that he is teaching them. So that he can make them successful in way. …show more content…

The girls get punished in very harsh ways as well. Just like in hard times the kids are punished in brutal ways and humiliated in a way to help them learn. The girl is punished and forced to stand outside in the cold rain and she gets hypothermia and dies. The importance of obedience and independance suggest a lot on how they teach these

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