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Isolation In Jane Eyre

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In the novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte portrays how isolation and exile can cast a damaging effect on one’s life through a foil between Jane and Bertha. Initially Jane was worth nothing while on the other hand, Bertha was initially rich, beautiful, and everyone wanted to marry her. The roles were switched. Jane established herself, somewhat, and Bertha went “crazy”. Jane was isolated as a child physically and mentally. Jane was locked in the red room for over a night. Mentally she was isolated because as a child she lived with people from a different social class than her own. Bertha was insane because she had been locked in a room for fifteen years. Damaging effects came from this. Bertha Mason bit a man, caught the house on fire, and

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