Jane+Eyre

**Shrinklet**

There once was a woman named Jane Of I'm assuming marriage she felt the pain spent her life poor in an orphanage with no hope of raising her personage

lucked out and went to an castle since being poor was a hassle met a hot man hiding secrets then questioned the role of women in society and whether she possessed true independence and value in his eyes

So please before you marry Of the respect you receive please do be wary

Red Room Analysis: Pick out the words with the strongest connotation. Next, pick out the strongest images. Create categories for your diction and imagery. Now… SO WHAT?
 * Step 1 **

Compare the religious creed that Helen expresses to Jane in Chapters 6 and 8 to the creed that Mr. Brocklehurst espouses. Which creed does Bronte want us to sympathize with? How do you know?
 * Step 2 **

Describe the atmosphere or mood of Thornfield (be careful) --- SO WHAT?
 * Step 3 **

The vast majority of imagery in this chapter concerns color, two in particular. Tablecloths, curtains, and the carpets all appear to be red; whereas, the bed and the "throne" stand out in the room through their white color. Charlotte Bronte uses this placement of furniture to portray an image of white surrounded and enclosed by red. It is evident that through her importance to the story and young age, Jane Eyre is represented by this white bed in the center of the room. The red, while she has not yet hit the point in the novel in which she reaches a new level of maturity, most likely still symbolizes the passion and desire she will feel later in the novel towards a future lover, and also perhaps the hatred and anger that surrounds her from all those in the gateshead manor.
 * STEP 1**
 * **Noteworthy Words** || **Noteworthy Images** ||
 * "Muffled" Windows || Curtains of deep red ||
 * || Bed appears as a tabernacle ||
 * || red carpet ||
 * || Crimson Cloth ||
 * || Vacant majesty ||
 * || The Strange Figure ||
 * || White cushioned easy chair ||
 * || overshadowed walls ||
 * || dark room ||
 * || white bed ||

At first glance, Helen's creed and that of Brocklehurst appear to be very similar as both support the disciplinary system employed at Lowood to keep the girls in order. The differences between their beliefs are found in the reason by which either character seems to be in accordance with the strict, actively punishing principles of the school. Brocklehurst himself is the founder of the school, and as a result it is not a secret as to why he agrees with the policies of the school; they directly come from his ideals. Brocklehurst is a belief-driven christian and believes in doing whatever is necessary to ensure that the girls of the school conform to his mind's image of the perfect, most godly girl. Often times this becomes a drastic approach, expressed with his disappointment in Mrs. Temple's decision to feed the girls bread and cheese rather than burnt porridge as a result of Jesus' teachings that there is a spirituality found in poverty and misery. While Helen Burns is also a christian, as everyone in the Victorian Era, her creed is not based on imposing her beliefs on everyone else, but instead as she states, "liv[ing] in calm, looking to the end." Her decision to conform to the standards of the school is based on the belief that life is more easily lived if you choose to love even those who hate you, and that the best future is formed through avoiding opposition and living peacefully. Bronte's portrayal of the two opposing creeds seems to render that of Helen more agreeable through Brocklehurst's lack of agreeability, seen in Helen's statement, "he is little liked here; he never took steps to make himself liked."
 * STEP 2**

Thornfield's mood, through the atmosphere crafted in various phrases mentioned throughout chapters 11-20 in the novel, is one with an air of "the sternness and stillness of a world under the frost." The reader's perception of the atmosphere is shaped directly through phrases such as "to pass its threshold was to return to stagnation" along with a heavy image of ice and coldness that suggests a lack of change and activity. The most likely warrant for this stagnant environment is to mirror the conservatism of Christianity and the general beliefs of Victorian society in his period; the novel has a heavy focus on tackling the issues of gender and class of this time period, and Thornfield's environment reflects the right-leaning beliefs that seem to cause these problems.
 * STEP 3**


 * Quiet Love**

Thornfield Hall 11 A home in the past, a shrine of memory 11 To pass its threshold, to return to stagnation 12 The sternness and stillness of a world under the frost 15

It is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, 16 love warbled with the lisp of childhood 11 Keep your caste! 17 Be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart! 17 What the love of a child 17

I had not intended to love him 17 I had sought hard to extirpate from my soul 17 the germs of love there detected 17 Yet, well I breathe and think, I must love him! 17 I had learned to love Mr. Rochester 18 I could not unlove him now 18

Thornfield Hall 20 Its silence, its rest 20 Hushed as a desert 20 Months of stillness, monotony, solitude, 18 Issuing from my asylum with precaution 17