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How do Jane’s experiences at Lowood contribute to her development? Before arriving at Lowood Jane lived at Gateshead, with her aunt and three cousins. She was unloved and treated badly, and had already developed a determination to stand up for herself and fight for her independence. The young Jane had baffled Mrs Reed, who could obviously not understand “how for nine years you could be patient and quiescent under any treatment, and in the tenth break out all fire and violence”. At Gateshead

The Importance of Jane's Early Life at Lowood to Shaping Her Character in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre When Charlotte Brontë set out to write "Jane Eyre", she boldly promised her sisters: "a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours." As promised, Jane appears decidedly plain, "so little, so pale", with "features so irregular and so marked", "sensible but not at all handsome", "queer" and "a little toad". The novel

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. Jane brings her mentality from Gateshead to Lowood and is not willing to be conformed into society by following a set of rules that do not please her as well as obey silently

In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the importance of Jane’s time at Lowood relates to the theme of the submission of passion to logic being essential to coming of age because, Jane goes into Lowood as a passionate and headstrong child, learns many thing and meets new people, and comes out of Lowood as a mature adult. Jane going into Lowood as a child who is very passionate about what she believes is important because it shows how she was when she first got there. While she is there, she begins to learn

which the eight years Jane spends at Lowood Institution plays an undeniable role in her character development. Jane’s time at Lowood inculcated values of modesty and restraint into her lifestyle and also caused her to view God as a guardian figure. Jane entered Lowood as a stubborn and outspoken child but left as a mature and independent young adult. The overarching ideology of the school likely explains her drastic personality change. Mr. Rochester describes Lowood as a Christian charity school that

autobiographical, mirroring Charlotte Bronte's own life. Jane's time at Lowood corresponds to Charlotte's education at a school for daughters of the clergy, which she and her sisters Maria, Elizabeth and Emily left for in 1824. Jane went on to attend Miss Wooler's school at Roehead from 1831 to 1832, and returned to teach there for three years in 1935, just as Jane became a teacher at Lowood. Both Charlotte and Jane became governesses. The Lowood School is an accurate

religion by revealing Jane's transitions from Gateshead to Lowood, Lowood to Thornfield, and Thornfield to Moor House. Each location plays a significant role in the development of Jane's perspective on religion. Jane struggles to acquire true faith in God, which will help her overcome the obstacles of her itinerant life.   Jane's first encounter with religion was with Helen Burns, her only friend at Lowood. Before her arrival at Lowood, Jane lived uncomfortably with her malevolent Aunt Reed

conditions they were subject to. Brontë shows us these conditions through the main character Jane Eyre’s childhood and the influences including that of her Aunt Reed and her administrator at Lowood (the boarding school where her Aunt enrolled her) Mr. Brocklehurst, and the general institution of the Lowood School. Brontë also shows how Jane benefitted from her time at the Institution. Jane Eyre, the main character, is an orphan with a strong sense of self-righteousness. During the Victorian Era

In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, the titular character goes on both a mental and physical journey throughout the novel. Jane calls several different places home throughout her life, and encounters different milestones and challenges that shape her into a person at each one. The names given to these places and the people Jane comes across in them are used to represent what will happen to her while she is living there. Bronte’s use of the meanings of names as symbols is called etymology. For the duration

education and to have a job outside of the house. Bronte allows the reader to follow the journey of Jane Eyre’s struggle of getting a good education and finding a job. As Brontë introduces Jane, the reader learns that she will be attending school of Lowood soon, as a way for her stepmother to get rid of her. Young Jane is thrilled at the idea of going to school and sets her hopes high. Jane struggles to fit in at her new school, since ‘the mission is to mortify in these girls the lust of the flesh,