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Jane Eyre: The Settings - College Term Paper

Jane Eyre: The Settings

Throughout Jane Eyre, as Jane herself moves from one physical location
to another, the settings in which she finds herself vary considerably. Bronte
makes the most of this necessity by carefully arranging those settings to match
the differing circumstances Jane finds herself in at each. As Jane grows older
and her hopes and dreams change, the settings she finds herself in are perfectly
attuned to her state of mind, but her circumstances are always defined by the
walls, real and figurative, around her.
As a young girl, she is essentially trapped in Gateshead. This
sprawling house is almost her whole world. Jane has been here for most of her
ten years. Her life as a child is sharply ...

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reprobation." Lowood is after all an
institution where the orphan inmates or students go to learn. Whereas at
Gateshead her physical needs were more than adequately met, while her emotional
needs were ignored. Here Jane finds people who will love her and treat her with
respect. Miss Temple and Helen Burns are quite probably the first people to
make Jane feel important since Mr. Reed died. Except for Sunday services, the
girls of Lowood never leave the confines of those walls. At Lowood, Jane learns
that knowledge is the key to power. By learning, Jane earns greater respect and
eventually, she becomes a teacher there, a position of relative power, all the
more so compared to what she left behind at Gateshead. Jane stays inside the
walls of Lowood for eight years. She has learned a great deal but all she finds
for herself, when she does finally decide to leave, is "a new servitude." The
idea that she might be free in an unbounded world is not yet part of her
experience -- in a ...

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Added: 11/15/2008 06:33:55 PM
Category: Book Reports
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