Lowood notes (5-11)

‘silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear‘

‘silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear‘

Helen telling Jane to take suffering, abuse, religion.

‘I must resist those who punish me unjustly‘

Jane telling Helen how she responds to maltreatment, abuse, fire and ice.

‘she dislikes your cast of character’

Helen justifying Mrs Reed’s abuse, abuse.

‘Rain, wind and darkness filled the air‘

Description of weather upon entering Lowood, pathetic fallacy.

‘burning glasses against my scorched skin'

Jane explaining her embarrasment, abuse, fire and ice.

'left in my natural element'

Jane saying her natural element is fire, fire and ice.

‘a kind fairy‘

Jane describing her thoughts as supernatural, supernatural.

‘pronounced sentence‘

Brocklehurst is the judge of Lowood, religion, inferiority.

‘seats of honour‘

Brocklehurst’s family given higher seats based on money/ relation, social class.

‘almost worthy of such a wife

Jane saying Miss Temple is worthier than a man, gender roles.

‘I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer’

Jane wanting freedom, bird.

‘you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls‘

Brocklehurst explaining his treatment, abuse, religion.

‘Where is God? What is God?‘

Jane questioning God, religion.

‘do good to them that hate you‘

Helen’s version of Christianity, religion.

‘the stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion.‘

Jane explaining Miss Temple’s role in her life, motherhood.

‘God bless you, my children‘

Miss Temple viewing her students as family, motherhood.