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"I knew it was all over now, and, as I stooped to pick up the two fragments of slate, I rallied my forces for the worst. It came." (68)

Jane is already on thin ice with Mr. Brocklehurst through this chapter. The slate represents discipline and order, a tool used by the students at Lowood for schooling which is highly valued in this society. When Jane drops and shatters her slate, Mr. Brocklehurst sees this as a direct act of defiance deserving of punishment. The smashing of the slate is like Jane's rebellion against societal pressure of quiet femininity, though it was accidental.

Themes - gender roles, power roles, societal dynamics

(Jaella Brush)

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"While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality, that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors. Its garden, too, glowed with flowers: hollyhocks had sprung up tall as trees, lilies had opened, tulips and roses were in bloom; the borders of the little beds were gay with pink thrift and crimson double daisies; the sweetbriars gave out, morning and evening, their scent of spice and apples; and these fragrant treasures were all useless for most of the inmates of Lowood, except to furnish now and then a handful of herbs and blossoms to put in a coffin."

The state of nature is used throughout Jane Eyre as a sense of contrast to the events of the story, Ex. stormy weather of Gateshead, to represent the hellish time she had here. Here in this passage though the weather is used in irony. At a time when a vast majority of Janes peers are falling fatally ill, nature is blooming. Irony is furthermore represented in the last lines, stating that all this beauty was useless, but to decorate the girls coffins when the disease finally takes them. More broadly the Blooming of nature contrasted with death and disease, adds to the themes of unfairness in this novel. The disease these girls catch is basically a direct result of the terrible conditions of Lowood, enforced by Mr. Brocklehurts, and now these same girls are going to die, before they get to see the beauty of what life has to give.

Themes: Beauty of the natural world, unfairness (when contrasted with disease)- Finn Jensen

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"With earliest day, I was up:  I had my advertisement written,
enclosed, and directed before the bell rang to rouse the school; it
ran thus:-"

Jane is very bright eyed. She is ready to leave Lowood and start a new adventure but is still trapped in this institution. The ringing of the bell shows consistency and the bell dictates her life.

Themes of entrapment, consistency, adventure

(Anabel Tellez)

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"Breakfast-time came at last, and this morning the porridge was not burnt; the quality was eatable, the quantity small. How small my portion seemed! I wished it had been doubled."

In chapter 6, Jane becomes more accustomed to the culture of "discipline" at Lowood, shown through small food portions, frequent punishment during lessons, a strict dress code, and a tight schedule. The porridge is supposedly served in small portions as a means to teach Jane modesty, and engrain in her her role as a woman during that time. However, at Lowood, we soon discover that in practice the "discipline" is actually extremely restrictive and unhealthy for the students involved. Many of them die from fever in the later months because of the strict regimens implemented at Lowood.

Themes of survival, hunger, bare minimum, rules

(Edie Birkholz)

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"We had not sat long thus when another person came in. Some heavy clouds, swept from the sky by a rising wind, had left the moon bare; and her light, streaming in through a window nearby, shone full both on us and on the approaching figure, which we at once recognized as Miss Temple." (71)

After Jane feels down about her incident with Mr. Brocklehurst and Helen comforts her, they sit together on the floor. Brontë then describes (through the window) the grey clouds, which can be symbolized as the incident/Mr. Brocklehurst, coming apart or being blown away by the wind to display the bright moon, which is symbolism for the brightness that Miss Temple and Helen brought in the rough time (for Jane), a bright moonlight that shines onto Jane and Helen.

Theme of Hope and Perserverance

(Sophia Garza)

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"Resting my head on Helen's shoulder, I put my arms round her waist; she drew me to her, and we reposed in silence (Bronte 64)."

Jane has spent most of her life very alone, at Gateshead her only friend was Bessie, and then when coming to Lowood Jane spent a significant amount of time alone before meeting Helen. Meeting Helen showed Jane an example of real friendship and family later carried on by characters like Miss Temple, who helped Lowood become a sort of home for Jane. In general Jane's time at Lowood is marked by Jane finding a form of a home for the first time in her life.

Theme of belonging, comfort and home.

(Naomi Di-Capua)

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"A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bedroom windows all night long, had made us shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice." (Brontë

Chapter six starts with Jane explaining how the girls cannot wash themselves because the water is frozen. Just like how the winter can be harsh and cold life at school isn't too different. Jane encounters Helen being yelled at for not washing herself even though she couldn't. Jane asks why Helen doesn't talk back and even though Jane doesn't exactly agree with her reasoning she tries to understand. Jane has a lot of passion and spirit that contrasts with the cold at Lowood and Helen's very mellow personality. She seems to be going through a period of overcoming struggle and the loneliness of knowing she is different from the girls who would never resist.

Struggle and hardship, detachment, loneliness

(Josie Blackwell)

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"A kind fairy, in my absence, had surely dropped the required suggestion on my pillow; for as I lay down, it came quietly and naturally to my mind:—'Those who want situations advertise; you must advertise in the ——shire Herald.'"

As Jane is trying to come up with how she might find a new servitude, she's unable to decide how she can advertise herself. She comes to the conclusion that a person needs friends to find opportunities, and since she has no friends, she cannot think of any. This is when a fairy gives her the idea to advertise in the shire herald. It's unclear and not ever specified if the fairy is just a metaphor for Jane's spontaneous idea, or if a literal supernatural being comes down to give her this idea, but it mirrors her experience in the Red Room with the "ghost" of Mr Reed - or possibly just the wind. Throughout the book, the idea of another world of supernatural and less-than realistic ideas are hinted at and alluded to, but truly serve as a symbol for the coincidences of life that aren't easily explainable.

Themes of curiosity, fear, and the unexplored world.

(Harrison Knight)

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Charlotte Bronte Writes of the mountains in the distance, seen from Lowood.

" My eye passed all other objects to rest upon those most remote, the blue peaks."

These blue peaks are symbolic of the freedom that Jane longs for. She is trapped at Lowood and wants to venture out into the world. The peaks represent the beauty of the world she has yet to see. She talked of how all she's ever known is stuff to do with the school, and now she feels it's not enough.

A potential thematic issue is her sense of belonging. Yes she enjoys school, but her heart wants her to see the world, so she does not belong there. So far she has never been somewhere where she feels like she belongs.

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“Helen, why do you stay with a girl whom everybody believes to be a liar?”

“Everybody, Jane? Why, there are only eighty people who have heard you called so, and the world contains hundreds of millions.” (pg.59)

In chapter 6, Helen serves as a source of inspiration and courage for Jane, as despite their disagreements on how they cope with the system of oppression at Lowood, Jane still sympathizes with her and takes solace in her friend's patience and compassion. Even if Jane considers Helen's submissive attitude towards Lowood, her unyielding spiritual faith inspires Jane to resist the idea that she may be consigned to a terrible fate at Lowood, believing in a brighter future in the same way Helen believes that God will deliver her to a better place after her passing.

Themes of compassion, spiritual faith, acceptance, compassion.

(Willem Zuniga)

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"That forest-dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence; which, quickening with the quickening spring, crept into the Orphan Asylum, breathed typhus through its crowded schoolroom and dormitory, and, ere May arrived, transformed the seminary into an hospital."

Typhus began to spread across Lowood, taking many lives. This disease symbolizes death but also the start of something new. Many children died as a result of Typhus, forcing the institution to rebuild: starting "fresh." Although Typhus did cause death and grief, the school's progression following the disease was quite positive, juxtaposing what was brought with the disease.

Themes of death and new beginnings. Ellie Knoll

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Butterflies, Birds eating, Wrens nesting

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"I feasted instead on the spectacle of ideal drawings, which I saw in the dark; all the work of my own hands: freely pencilled houses and trees, picturesque rocks and ruins, Cuyp-like groups of cattle, sweet paintings of butterflies hovering over unblown roses, of birds picking at ripe cherries, of wren’s nests enclosing pearl-like eggs, wreathed about with young ivy sprays." (Bronte)

After being acquitted of lying because of the testimony of Mr. Lloyd, Jane begins her life almost anew, indulging herself in learning the French language and drawing. She quickly picks up these skills with her newfound approval of the teachers and her peers and succeeds in those endeavors as we later learn. Jane's rebirth in this chapter makes for a small tone shift in showing how, despite Mr. Brocklehurst's incompetence, she can persevere in this unknown environment. Jane's drawings of Birds and Butterflies represent spring and her rebirth, and she'll lead a new life in Lowood. Also serves some ironic purpose given the context of the next chapter.

This chapter presents themes of spring, rebirth, redemption, hard work

(Alexis Ramirez)

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Lack of Resources/Limited Supply/Small Portions

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Lack of Resources/Limited Supply/Small Portions

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"The laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week; it is too much; the rules limit them to one." (pg.59)

At Lowood everything is limited: food clothing, leisure time, water, and even sleep. It makes for a harsh environment for young girls to grow up in and often leads to older girls bullying younger girls out of their portions. Eventually, after a lack of humane resources leads to widespread sickness, these limits are lifted, proving the cruelty of Mr.Brocklehurst and his money saving rules.

Themes- oppression, social class (rich controlling the poor), control, survival of the fittest

(Ava Deviney)

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"... we reached her apartment; it contained a good fire, and looked cheerful. Miss Temple told Helen Burns to be seated in a low arm-chair on one side of the hearth, and herself taking another, she called me to her side" (Brontë 84).

After the incident with Mr. Brocklehurst, Miss Temple invites Jane and Helen to her private office, where they talk by the fire. Jane tells Miss Temple the story of her past and gains acceptance from the teacher. She also notes how Helen comes alive in the presence of Miss Temple, admiring her friend's maturity and sophistication. This fireside chat inspires Jane to persevere at Lowood, despite the public humiliation she suffered. Throughout the novel, Jane is a very resilient character who perseveres even in bad circumstances. The fire in this scene symbolizes her passion and internal drive.

Themes of acceptance, belonging, dedication, perseverance

(Lanie Sepehri)

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“We feasted that evening on nectar and ambrosia; and not the least delight of entertainment was the smile of gratification with which our hostess regarded us, as we satisfied our famished appetites on the delicate fare she liberally supplied.” (69)

Following Jane Eyre’s public humiliation, Miss Temple giving Jane Eyre food symbolizes a communion and shows how Miss Temple believes Jane to be innocent and gives Jane a bigger sense of belonging. The food is especially significant because it is so scarce at Lowood so it further illustrates how Miss Temple cares for Jane.

Themes of belonging

(Lily Hobbs)

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Clothing- (when they take her clothing)

The garden imagery

Jane's drawing, art... different classes she takes...

letter writing

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Harrison, Ellie K., Vanesa, Oscar, Thomas, Anabel

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Finn, Ellie, Asher, Sinclair, Georgia, Otto

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Finn, Ellie, Asher, Sinclair, Georgia, Otto

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Naomi, Angus Sophia, Lily, Alexis, Lanie

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Naomi, Angus Sophia, Lily, Alexis, Lanie

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Jaella, Matthew, Charlie, Ava, Emmy, Ian

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Jaella, Matthew, Charlie, Ava, Emmy, Ian

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Edie, Josie, Carys, Adele, Leo, Paikea, Willem

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Edie, Josie, Carys, Adele, Leo, Paikea, Willem

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2. Include a sprinkle of direct quotation to prove this symbol is in the text 3. Explain: Why is this concrete detail symbolic? Why is it suggestive? Or, What connotations, intertextual, meanings, universal associations, feelings, etc. does it have? How does the narrative context add to its meaning? 4. What is/are a potential thematic ISSUE/s that arises from the symbol?

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1b) ”Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” “[the room] was quickly filled with two occupants; in ten minutes the single light was extinguished, and amidst silence and complete darkness I fell asleep.”

Light in this specific chapter symbolizes biblical aspects, such as the light of the Lord. In the bible, light reflects the

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1b) ”Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” “[the room] was quickly filled with two occupants; in ten minutes the single light was extinguished, and amidst silence and complete darkness I fell asleep.”

Light in this specific chapter symbolizes biblical aspects, such as the light of the Lord. In the bible, light reflects the meaning of clarity pertaining to their belief in God. Since Lowood is tied so deeply to the foundations of God, light would provide a deeper meaning into what the children’s true desires and truths are. When each light dissipates into the night and darkness soon surrounds the children it could represent their true view of god. This “light” is only felt by few, the rest of the children are pushed into believing it, but when night occurs and each “light” goes out, the children are able to escape this light (God) and enter the darkness.

Themes of belief and truth

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1. “…Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentleman, your benefactress’s son! Your young master.”

“John no one thwarted much less punished: though he twisted the necks of the pigeons, killed the little pea-chicks, set the dogs at the sheep, stripped the hot house vines of their fruit, and broke the buds of the choicest plants in the conservatory…”

2. Jane is made feel inferior in comparison to her cousins regardless of the behavior they exert. Throughout the text, Charlotte Bronte conveys a sense of jealousy as she describes the attributes of her cousins, especially John. Jane gets her behavior remarked as outrageous, while John's behavior is praised and justified. This is highlighted in the scene where John smacks Jane with a book and in return Eyre tries to defend herself only to be condemned to the red room. John is symbolic of power and one of the elements of the Seven Deadly Sins: Greed. On top of the luxury and authority, John lives in he grasps for more, and thrives off the power he has from being a man.

3. One of the themes that might arise from this symbolism of power is Justice. This heavily alludes to the injustices women have to face up to this day.

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Fire symbolizes passion, in Jane Eyre, and symbolizes the "naughty" side of Jane that is considered unorthodox by her elders. When Jane is talking to Mr. Brocklehurst, he expresses that naughty girls go to hell, and in hell they burn in "a pit full of fire." Additionally, when Jane begins arguing with Mrs. Reed at the end of the chapter, she expresses that "a ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, devouring, would have been a meet emblem of my mind when I accused and menaced Mrs. Reed: the same ridge, black and blasted after the flames are dead, would have represented as meetly my subsequent condition, when half-an-hour’s silence and reflection had shown me the madness of my conduct, and the dreariness of my hated and hating position."

In this way, fire represents energy, and when it goes out, it represents a cooling, a suppressing of emotion. Throughout the first few chapters, cold, dreary weather is associated with a stagnancy in life, with a boring melancholy, and fire is associated with defiance and rebellion. Fire is exciting, and gives Jane life.

Themes of rebellion, excitement, adventure, violence

Edie Birkholz

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In Jane Eyre, the giving of food or bread from one person to another symbolizes an act of care. In the fourth chapter, Bessie brings Jane "something by way of supper—a bun or a cheese-cake—," and Jane expresses that she thinks "Bessie seemed to me the best, prettiest, kindest being in the world," when Bessie is gentle like that.

Bessie's bringing of food for Jane represents Bessie's genuine love for the girl, and role as Jane's "primary caretaker."

Food as fuel, love and belonging, parental absence, parental figure, protection

Edie Birkholz

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1b) “A clock in the schoolroom struck nine; Miss Miller left her circle, and standing in the middle of the room, cried—“Silence! To your seats!” Discipline prevailed ""Silence!” ejaculated a voice; not that of Miss Miller, but one of the upper teachers”

Silence can symbolize not only Jane’s past with Gateshead, but the position with Lowood now. A majority of her life she has felt inferior, vulnerable, and bare. To conceal these feelings she had used silence to fight them. In the rare times in which she spoke back, she was severely punished. I believe silence symbolizes her internal struggle; she had grown up in such an abusive and dehumanizing household that silence was her only option. Now that she is at Lowood, there are many re-occurrences of silence, similar to the ones she experienced back at Gateshead.

Themes of self-worth and inferior positions

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1b) ”Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” “[the room]  was quickly filled with two occupants; in ten minutes the single light was extinguished, and amidst silence and complete darkness I fell asleep.”

Light in this specific chapter symbolizes biblical aspects, such as the light of the Lord. In the bible, light reflects the meaning of clarity pertaining to their belief in God. Since Lowood is tied so deeply to the foundations of God, light would provide a deeper meaning into what the children’s true desires and truths are. When each light dissipates into the night and darkness soon surrounds the children it  could represent their true view of god. This “light” is only felt by few, the rest of the children are pushed into believing it, but when night occurs and each “light” goes out, the children are able to escape this light (God)  and enter the darkness.

Themes of belief and truth

ellie anabel

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“I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newly-risen crescent, attesting the hour of eventide.”

Graveyards very obviously are reminders of death, loss, sadness, grief, and emptiness. For Jane, these things seem to reference specific memories and moments from her own life- the loss of her parents and the constant sadness of her new life with the Reeds.

Grief, Death, Natural Circumstances

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"To this crib I always took my doll. Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scare-crow."

This shows how lonely Jane Eyre is, because her only friend is the doll. She has to find some form of happiness despite only having an inanimate object as her friend.

Loneliness, Content, Happiness, Pleasure, Humanity

Angus Finley

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During the holiday seasons of Christmas and New Years, Jane mentions seeing her cousins Eliza and Georgiana's hair elaborately ringleted for the celebrations. There is also an instance in this chapter when "Georgiana sat on a high stool, dressing her hair at the glass, and interweaving her curls with artificial flowers and faded feathers." Jane is jealous of Georgiana's beauty and the ringlets represent both the beauty and the luxury that Jane feels she lacks.

Jane lives a life of simplicity and feels that even though she is given basic shelter and sustenance, she is deprived of luxury and nice things to increase her quality of life. The idea of getting her hair in ringlets, for Jane, would represent a presence of love and care.

Luxury, Bare Minimum, Denial, Jealousy

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"My blood was still warm; the mood of the revolted slave was still bracing me with its bitter viguor"

The temperature of her blood coincides with her feeling of revolt and self-importance.

Throughout her time in the red room, the temperature of herself and the room is symbolic of Jane's mood and sense of self. When she first gets to the red room she is warm, she's angry, and feels a strong sense of injustice. It goes hand in hand with her self-worth as when she is warm she sees herself as equal to her cousins and that makes the injustice of it all clear as day. As time goes on, however, she gets colder, and "I grew by degrees cold as a stone" and suddenly "My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire." The shift in temperature represents her shift in mood. She went from being hot, emboldened with a sense of self-worth, and full of anger about the injustice of it all, to cold, doubtful of herself, and sad.

potential issues are self-worth, injustice, and abuse.

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"Mrs. Reed surveyed me at times with a severe eye,-"

Mrs. Reed represents the law of Gateshead. She's at the very top of the power chain and constantly abuses Jane because of her vulnerabilities. Mrs. Reed is the one who makes sure Jane knows her place in the hierarchy of Gateshead.

Power, Authority, Mother, Evil

Oscar Morales

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"Mrs. Reed was rather a stout woman; but, on hearing this strange and audacious declaration, she ran nimbly up the stair, swept me like a whirlwind into the nursery, and crushing me down on the edge of my crib, dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place, or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day."

Jane's crib is a literal cage inside of the nursery. She is forced into her cage by Mrs. Reed.

Neglect and imprisonment, Keep her from growing outside of her confines.

Oscar Morales

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1. "Master! How is he my master? Am I a servant? No; you are less than a servant" (14).

2. Mrs. Reed sends Jane down to the spare chamber (red room) to be punished for getting into a fight with John. When Jane is being sent down, she pleads and asks why she is the only one getting into trouble even though John started the fight. This is when Ms. Abbot begins to degrade Jane for her actions by saying she is less than a servant. To be less than a servant during this period means Jane is seen as inferior and an outcast to everyone else in the house, which emphasizes how isolated Jane is from everyone around her.

3. Isolation, inferior, power

(Emmy, Georgia, Vanessa, and Leo)

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1b) " The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller"

Religion can be described as faith in one figure or form. We believe this idea can relate to Jane and her belief in one school;  her sheer joy in the thought of a new beginning. The bible and God are major symbols in this chapter. The professors, Miss. Miller and the Dean have very close relationships with God, leading the classes and dinners in prayer. The Dean can be shown in this biblical light through his faith. He is so intertwined with the idea of complete faith that it has turned him into this dark, satan-like, form. He constructs the classes with God and prayer being the foundation, yet the way he treats the children is quite malicious.

Themes of resentment and separation (either from the church or “superior” figures, like her professors)

ellie anabel

Ms Wood's question: what might the actual act of praying symbolize...

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" appointing me a small closet to sleep in by myself, condemning me to take my meals alone, and pass all my time in the nursery, while my cousins were constantly in the drawing-room."

Jane was imprisoned in the nursery and left all by her lonesome. While her sisters lavishly celebrate in the drawing room Jane watches the walls.

Seclusion, Neglect, loneliness

Oscar Morales

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"Hold her arms, Miss Abbot: she's like a mad cat."

Interesting.. she's also called a rat. So one could pull in a broader label here...

Jane is compared to a cat, highlighting her introverted nature, and possibly hinting towards the misogyny she faces. Jane is dehumanized for defending herself, and is almost put in a cage or the red room. I think the common theme of referring to Jane as an animal is similar to how women are viewed, especially during this time. This also might hint at a miscommunication between Jane and her family because humans and cats cannot speak the same language. Furthermore, this detail could also hint towards Jane being viewed as an unwanted house pet. Because her uncle died, Jane no longer has a biological parental figure, and is almost like a stray animal enduring harsh conditions. This furthers the idea that Jane is completely isolated and neglected.

potential themes: The Wild, Captivity, Neglect. Make sure you get the issue in here... Not sure what you mean by silence????, disconnect???? Do you mean alienation?

(Georgia, Emmy, Leo, Vanessa

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1b) "Which gave it a church-like aspect; a stone tablet over the door bore this inscription"

Stones are a symbol of heaviness, weight, and age. It can also symbolize biblical aspects, referring to the truth in which they resemble when they are kept "quiet." When something is written in stone, " an inscription ," it cannot be erased. This school, Lowood, can not disappear, it will stay and age just as a stone would.

Themes of entrapment and the feeling of isolation

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“Now, I’ll teach you to rummage my book-shelves: for they are mine; all the house belongs to me, or will do in a few years”. (Bronte 11)

The bookshelves and the book that Jane reads in this scene serve as a symbol of knowledge and status. John Reed claims the books belong to him as if Jane does not deserve the comfort and fulfillment they bring her; he sees Jane as inferior to him.

Possible thematic Issues? Possession, Power of Wealth, Role of Class

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“Having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly closed.”

Jane is excluded from the rest of her family and the color red is associated with her separation and neglect. The color could also represent blood or anger which furthers the metaphor for her irritation. The red room she is isolated in mirrors her conflict as well as her emotions.

Isolationism, neglect, separation from family, abuse

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“A pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast.”

Jane frequently references the weather outside which represents her emotions and mood for her current circumstance. The harsh weather is also a metaphor for her isolation from the outside world.

Isolationism, reflection of inner self, representation of internal conflict

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“The cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of a cloud at a wreck just sinking.”

While reading Jane describes her comprehension of the book. She describes the moon as being behind bars watching a sinking wreck. The moon is consistently seen throughout and seems to reflect Jane's situation. Jane is trapped in a household watching her life become something she didn't choose it to be and hardly has control over it. Like the way the moon changes phases, Jane's life also changes as she grows as a person.

Possible Themes: time passing, isolation, change

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1."I strove to fulfill every duty; and I was termed naughty and tiresome, sullen. and sneaking from morning to noon, and from noon to night."

2. The story of Jane Eyre alludes to the fairytale of Cinderella. Before Mr. Reed passed away he made Mrs. Reed promise to take care of Jane as her child. This promise is similar to the promise the fairy godmother made to Cinderella in the story, as Mr. Reed seemed to be the only caring and protective figure Jane had left. However, Mrs. Reed and everyone else living in the house subjected Jane to neglect and cruelty.

The red room alludes to the attic in Cinderella. In this instance Jane is sent to the red room as a punishment. This scene highlights the seclusion and ill treatment within the Reed household.

3. The quote represents the constant reminder for Jane of the harsh reality that she is living in, which affects her character and her independency. Themes that arise from the symbolism of Cinderella are struggle for identity and belonging.

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1. "The red-room was a spare chamber, very seldom slept in; I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors..." (Bronte 15).

2. The red room is symbolic of Jane's anger at the mistreatment she has been facing from her aunt and cousins since her uncle passed. She comes to face with her anger once she is punished and sent to the red room. Once she is in the red room, she is met with the ghost of her uncle and begins to wonder how her life would be if her uncle were still alive.

3. Fear, secluded, isolation

(Emmy, Georgia, Vanessa, Leo)

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The height of the stool symbolizes an absence or presence of power. Diana, Jane's cousin, is always seated on a high stool, which establishes her respected role within the household. When Jane is meeting with Mr. Brocklhurst in the drawing room, she is seating on a low stool, establishing her lack of importance.

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The height of the stool also has connotations of class divisions, as one will refer to someone with more money as being "higher up." Jane, although she lives in the same house as her cousin, she has considerably less money promised to her for her future. As a result of Jane being poorer, she is not given basic respect.

Lack of Self Esteem, Power, Classism, Loneliness

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“The carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn color with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet table, the chairs were of a darkly polished old mahogany.” (13)

Red symbolizes both danger and courage. Because of this, Jane being thrust into a room covered in red symbolizes her first test and a challenge she must overcome. The red also symbolizes life, or death, as her uncle, Mr. Reed, died in the red room, making it even more sinister.

Themes of anxiety and courage.

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Class Prejudice (this is an issue)/References to Slavery? This works more... Add the issue to your issues

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Class Prejudice (this is an issue)/References to Slavery? This works more... Add the issue to your issues

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"No; you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep. There, sit down, and think over your wickedness.”

Miss Abbot is scolding Jane for acting against the Reed's wishes, and in doing so emphasizes her place in the house as not even a servant, but practically a slave. Jane has preexisting prejudice against the impoverished as mentioned in chapter 3, likely due to the environment in which she grows up, so these statements only hurt her self-esteem more.

Isolation, out of place, rich vs poor

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"John no one thwarted, much less punished; though he twisted the necks of the pigeons, killed the little pea-chicks, set the dogs at the sheep, stripped the hothouse vines of their fruit, and broke the buds off the choicest plants in the conservatory."

In describing the cruel deeds that surround John, Jane explicitly lists ones that directly involve or relate to death, whether that be of animals or plants. Jane feels like her life and wellbeing is at risk by her proximity to John, and by opening with his twisting of pigeon necks, it represents how she feels frail and weak to his power.

Themes of oppression, death, power, and fear.

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"I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed."

Jane looking into the glass is representative of reflection. Not only is it a physical reflection of the image of herself back at her, but it's also a metaphorical reflection of Jane. Locked away in the red room all Jane has to do is think about her life and her relationships to those around her in the house. It's through this self-reflection in the book that the reader gains details into Janes's thoughts, personality and feelings.

Isolation, power of silence, self reflection

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"' Oh! I saw a light, and I thought a ghost would come.' I had now got hold of Bessie's hand, she did not snatch it from me" (Brontë 19).

Jane's callbacks to ghosts or other supernatural elements such as calling herself a fairy, allude to both Janes's want to escape elsewhere as she thinks about more magical things, and also Janes's fright being locked away in the red room. Talk of a ghost suggests the idea that maybe the ghost is Mr. Reed who died in the red room.

Death, darkness and light, desire to escape

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“...shades rose high, and glared white, the piled up mattresses and pillows of the bed, spread and a snowy Marseilles counterpane. Scarcely less prominent was an ample cushioned easy-chair near the head of the bed, also white, with a footstool before it; and looking, as I thought, like a pale throne.” (13) “This room was chill, because it seldom had a fire…” (14)

The color white in this, along with the red room being very cold, symbolizes the lack of love the Reeds have for Jane. The pristineness and perfection of the color white also symbolizes the Reed family’s status and shows how much they value their class, which can also be seen when Jane describes a white easy chair as a ‘throne’.

Themes of home and belonging (or lack thereof) and status/class.

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“The two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, where half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery.” (13)

The abundance of drapery in the red room that Jane is trapped in further symbolizes the exile, isolation, and oppression that Jane is forced into by the Reeds. The drapes block out both light and the rest of the world which shows how cut off Jane is from her family.

Themes of oppression, exile, and isolation.

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“To the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day.”

Jane uses reading to help protect her from the real world and the issues that come with it shown by the weather outside. She is able to use reading as her escape from the abuse, and mistreating that she receives when she is in her reality.

What about the window/glass?

Possible themes- security, protection, safety, escape

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“Four years older than I, for I was ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin.”

In this chapter Jane discusses the bullying and abuse from John Reed and it is shown that she is small and frail compared to the Reed children. This shows possible physical and gender based conflicts between Jane and John.

Possible themes- abuse, violence, mistreatment

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"to my right hand there was the high, dark, wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room"

The occurrence of glass represents how Jane views herself. Jane looks through broken glass, representing how misunderstood she feels, and the various ways her situation could have changed if she had done something different. This is shown when she thinks about if her uncle was still alive, how he would treat her, and if he would treat her better than what she is enduring currently.

Regret, denial, reality (Georgia, Emmy, Leo, Vanessa)

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Bronte writes that "'something passed her, all dressed in white, and vanished'--' A great black dog behind him' -- 'Three loud raps on the chamber door' -- 'A light in the churchyard just over his grave'" when describing the ghost of Mr. Reed.

When Mr Reed appears to Jane, his leaving presence is a symbol for the life Jane was never allowed to have/ was taken away from her when he died and left the mortal plane.

Denial of freedom

(Alexis, Theo, Ian)

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"Mr. Reed had been dead nine years"

The death of Mr. Reed symbolizes a lost savior. Mr. Reed is the only person who truly cared about Jane and him being dead leaves her alone. Jane is left with a question of "what if?". If Mr. Reed hadn't died would life be better for her.

The issues that arise are the neglect of a child, and the trauma of losing a parental figure.

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"Yet when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand--when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvelous pictures... a most desolate wanderer in most dread and dangerous regions." (Brontë 22)

Gulliver's Travels is representative of multiple things within Jane Eyre. Jane's love of the book expresses her desire for adventure and in a way foreshadows the journey she will go on. In Gulliver's Travels, once Gulliver is forced to leave Lilliput, he sets off to Brobdingnag, an unfamiliar world of giants, much like the way Jane is forced to go to Lowood School.

Isolation, Adventure, Curiosity

(Thomas, Finn, Sinclair, Ellie)

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“‘Take her away to the red-room and lock her in there.’ Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs.”

Once again, red is brought up, its symbolic meaning in this novel gains more depth and a newer meaning. Here with the red-room it signals fear and more warning of danger. The rushed and sort of violent way that Jane gets taken away and assigned the red-room adds more negative connotation to the color.

Fear, Violence, Isolation, Chaos, False blame

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“Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand…”

Red is a color often associated with simple things like blood, roses, as well as more thematic elements like love, passion, power, and danger. In this context the red could be taken as a warning to John Reed’s future presence to the danger he brings, as well as a very strict barrier between Jane and the others.

Loneliness, Danger, Survival, Fear, Argument

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“To the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day”. (Bronte 8)

For Jane, the window acts as a shield from her problems. The cold, sorrowful outside winter weather represents the hardships of Jane’s existence; the window provides her a safe place to escape. The barrier of the window represents the temporary safety she feels hidden in the window-seat. She has a newfound security of her book and the isolation from her struggles.

Possible thematic Issues? Comfort and Security, Isolation, Convention and Rebellion, Loneliness

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"This book I had again and again perused with delight.", "Gulliver a most desolate wanderer in most dread and dangerous regions."

Gulliver's Travels represents Jane's desire to see the world and be free of Gateshead. She expresses that she wants to take a voyage and see the fields, houses and trees and have an experience of freedom and adventure. She finds the book "eerie and dreary" because she can only think about how the characters are unwelcoming and Gulliver isn't a fun seeking adventurer.

Freedom, Regret, Loss of Innocence

Alexis Theo Ian

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Poverty could be a symbol... but I feel like it's more conceptual here- and the impact is Degradation. What could symbolize poverty in this chapter? 

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Poverty could be a symbol... but I feel like it's more conceptual here- and the impact is Degradation. What could symbolize poverty in this chapter? 

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When being questioned by Mr. Lloyd, he asks Jane if she would rather live in poverty than live with the reeds, she ponders the question and eventually compares poverty to being "synonymous with degradation"

Jane's comparison makes it clear as to how she holds poverty in comparison to her own self-worth, she doesn't view poverty as an escape, but instead was shaped by the words of Ms. Reed to compare being in poverty, to the worst possible state she could be at any moment.

Self-worth

(Alexis, Ian, Theo)

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“Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my underdeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet every profoundly interesting: as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings…”

Jane is enthralled by stories, especially those of fantasy. She loves to read and hear stories. She is also constantly looking for interesting things and often finds those in the stories she hears/reads.

Possible themes: escaping, hope, connection, growing maturity

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Lowood (as? a building, a school?  Symbolism

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Lowood (as? a building, a school?  Symbolism

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Likewise, much is missing here. See directions and model.

2.Lowood symbolizes the inherent lack of opportunity in the Victorian era for women, particularly orphaned ones, as Lowood is the only path out of Gateshead available to Jane, yet it is bleak and brutal, barely better than her old home. However, Lowood also highlights Jane's resilience, pushing forward despite how destitute the path may seem.

-Willem

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References to Orphan Identity/Cruel Step-Family/Rags to Riches Foreshadowing

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References to Orphan Identity/Cruel Step-Family/Rags to Riches Foreshadowing

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"'You ought to be aware, miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed.'" (Brontë 18). "... in his last moments, he had required a promise of Mrs. Reed that she would rear and maintain me as one of her own children" (Brontë 22).

While it's Cinderella's actual father that dies and leaves her at the mercy of the wicked stepmother and stepsisters, Jane Eyre's backstory mirrors this classic fairytale. In this instance, Jane is the "Cinderella" character; her aunt Mrs. Reed is the "evil stepmother" and her cousins the "evil stepsisters". Like Cinderella, Jane is orphaned, friendless, and penniless. This reference suggests that Jane will similarly rise beyond her station and conquer the circumstances forced upon her, as Cinderella eventually does.

Good vs. evil, adversity, class

(Lanie, Harry, Naomi, Lily)

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“...a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast.”

Bronte emphasizes the cold and rainy winter weather that Jane loves so much because it seems to reflect her general emotions given her living situation. Winter is associated with death and struggling, themes that pepper Jane’s life.

Nature vs. humanity, isolation, searching for belonging

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". . . having drawn the red moron curtain nearly close, I was shrined in a double retirement"

Jane frequently finds herself hiding, or being hidden away, forced into a life by choice or by not, of being invisible until someone comes to find her. This connects to her fiercely independent personality, longing to be an individual, forcing her to hide from her oppressor.

Janes tendency to hide is connected to a theme of freedom in the story. Growing up, she was trapped in a hostile home, where the only peace she really got was when she was alone, which was difficult in the crowded home, forcing her to hide away from the rest of the family.

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“...waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare…”  “No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room…” (Bronte 9)

The repition of the color red symbolizes Jane’s fear as she describes the room around her after believing she had a nightmare. She associates red with fear after her encounter with Mr. Reed’s ghost in the red-room. The repetition of red in this chapter and throughout the book brings forth the reiteration of this fear that Jane feels constantly while in this home. Whether it’s a fear of seeing Mr. Reeds ghost, being bullied by John, or being locked away by Mrs. Reed.

Fear, Abuse

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The China Plate with the Bird of Paradise 

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The China Plate with the Bird of Paradise 

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The bird painted on this plate is a symbol of how Jane yearns to be free and fly on her own. On page 10, Bronte writes " ... brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise...". This suggests that Jane is unhappy cooped up in her aunt's house, and wishes to go somewhere far away. The plate itself is also a symbol. A china plate is fragile, held together until a strong pressure can cause it to break. This is suggestive of Jane's current emotional state in these chapters, trying to hold onto her books and her happiness, but slowly becoming more miserable with each passing day. These two symbols both bring up issues of Coming of Age, Fragility,Survival, and Loneliness.

(Ellie, Sinclair, Finn, Thomas)

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While in the nursery, Mr. Lloyd asks Jane if she "would like to go to school?"

The proposition of school is a symbol of an escape from the torment Jane endures at Gateshead, the fact an outsider was unaware of this makes it more poignant to the reader.

Escape, Unknowingness

(Ian, Alexis, Theo)

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Class Disparity THIS IS AN ISSUE. Pleae find symbol.

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Class Disparity THIS IS AN ISSUE. Pleae find symbol.

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“I reflected. Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty: they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices. Poverty for me was synonymous with degradation. “No I should not like to belong to poor people”.

Class disparity is a very clear theme not just in this chapter but Jane Eyre as a whole. The way the Reed family views poor people and the way this bleeds into the viewpoint of Jane is a clear issue in the book. Significantly in the context of this quote, Jane is being questioned if she’d live with poor people even if they loved her and she replies “she’d rather not” this shows how twisted this perception is, she’d rather live with wicked well-off people then poor kind-hearted people. It’s all a difficult situation and a clear theme of the novel.

Potential issue- Classism

(Finn, Sinclair, Ellie, Thomas)

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“Be seated somewhere and until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent.”

Jane is consistently being told to hold her tongue and act more “normally.” The adults in her life find her disturbing in her maturity at the young age of ten years old. Additionally, she is unloved and undervalued and people find her presence irksome so want as little communication as possible with her.

Possible themes- oppression, neglect, me vs you, breaking free, overcoming repression

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"it was cruel to shut me up alone without a candle, -- so cruel that I think I shall never forget it."

The candles symbolize the lack of fear of the dark, or the increased fear that the dark brings. Especially relating to the red-room in chapter 2, and Jane's experience. Candles bring a source of light and them leaving her without one can be seen as the Reeds' not caring about Jane's fears and feelings.

Fear, Abuse, Adversity, Lack of Knowledge or Safety

(Alexis, Ian, Theo)

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"Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, . . ." (Brontë 1)

Birds represent Janes longing to get away from the world she's trapped in. She has no choice except to succumb to the abuse or to live homeless, and likely die. So she finds comfort in the lives of the solitary birds in the far northern reaches of the world.

Thematically it is connected to the themes of abuse and freedom. She wants to run from the abuse and enter into a world where she is free to be herself.

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"This room was chill ... it was silent ... solemn ... the secret of the red-room, the spell which kept it so lonely in spite of its grandeur" (Brontë 19).

The red-room is symbolic of the abuse Jane suffers at the Reeds' hands. Because she is orphaned, poor, and unwanted, the Reeds refuse to accept her into their family circle and instead treat her with contempt and abuse. Like the red-room, Jane is silent, solemn, and rarely "visited", or treated with respect. Her being locked in the room symbolizes how she is trapped in an abusive situation.

Adversity, abuse, oppression

(Lanie, Harry, Lily, Naomi)

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1. Bronte writes of the "cold winter wind... clouds so sombre.... rain so penetrating".

2. Winter is often associated with death, sorrow, struggle, hardship. The dark clouds have connotations of the power of nature, and are suggestive of a warning, threat, dark omen; the rain has a sense of duality, adding both a feeling of gloom and sadness, but also an undeniable promise of future growth for rain is essential and nurturing.

3. Potential Thematic Issues? Coming of Age, Adversity, Survival and Hope; Alienation, Sublime Natural World, Fate versus Determinism