She seeks work as a governess, and is employed at Thornfield Hall to care for a solitary orphan, Adele. Reed then sends Jane to Lowood Hall, a school for the poor and orphaned, where she is to train to be a governess.īrocklehurst, the headmaster, who is abusive in his teaching of the girls.Īt the school Jane befriends Helen Burns, from whom she learns to be more patient.Īfter two years of teaching at Lowood (without once returning to the Reeds house in Gateshead) Jane decides to go out into the world on her own. This leads to her being sent away to a school on the recommendation of the doctor, Mr. Reed died in and which Jane believes is haunted.Īfter Jane believes that she sees her uncles ghost in the Red Room, she falls ill and faints. Jane is mistreated by her aunt who resents, neglects, and abuses her while claiming that the only reason for her care of Jane is charity, which leads to Janes overall anger towards the Reed family.Īfter a violent argument with her older cousin John, Jane is locked into the Red Room, the room which Mr. The novel has been adapted into a number of other forms, including theatre, film and television. The author deliberately created Jane as an unglamorous figure, in contrast to conventional heroines of fiction, and possibly part-autobiographical.
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