Jane Eyre - Timeline by https://padlet.com/akeating11/71x3ebqdqz0baks9 Mr. Keating - Honors English 9 en-us 2020-09-22 15:09:19 UTC 2024-08-14 01:53:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Jane is living at Gateshead during the start of the novel with her cruel and abusive Aunt Reed and her cousins. She is picked on often and spends most of her time reading away from the family. It is stated at the start of the novel that Jane is an orphan, and Jane chooses to remain living with the Reed family due to the treatment of orphans during the time period. akeating11 https://padlet.com/akeating11/71x3ebqdqz0baks9/wish/768582358 “I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.” (PDF, 6)


]]> 2020-09-22 15:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/akeating11/71x3ebqdqz0baks9/wish/768582358 As punishment for a fight that Jane did not provoke, she is sent to the dreaded “Red Room” of the household and locked away. This room terrifies Jane as it is where her uncle had died. Jane’s imagination runs wild in the dark and spooky room, and Jane claims to have seen a ghostly figure before fainting. This room is symbolic of Jane’s abuse early in life at the Reed household. akeating11 https://padlet.com/akeating11/71x3ebqdqz0baks9/wish/768713872 “This room was chill, because it seldom had a fire; it was silent, because remote from the nursery and kitchen; solemn, because it was known to be so seldom entered. The house-maid alone came here on Saturdays, to wipe from the mirrors and the furniture a week’s quiet dust: and Mrs. Reed herself, at far intervals, visited it to review the contents of a certain secret drawer in the wardrobe, where were stored divers parchments, her jewel-casket, and a miniature of her deceased husband; and in those last words lies the secret of the red-room—the spell which kept it so lonely in spite of its grandeur.” (16, PDF)


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