Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is a 10 years old orphan. Living at Gateshead, she is raised by Mrs. Reed, her step-aunt. Mrs. Reed has three children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana. They treat Jane cruelly and spitefully but a servant named Bessie provides Jane with some kindness. One day, as a punishment, Jane is locked up in the red-room where her uncle, Mr. Reed, had died. She is terrified –she believed that she sees her uncle’s ghost. Bessie and the kindly doctor, Dr. Lloyd, console Jane and he suggests to Mrs. Reed that Jane should be sent to school. Jane lives in isolation. Mr. Brocklehurst, the school’s headmaster, arrives and agrees to take Jane into his charity school, Lowood School. At Lowood, the children are underfed, underclothes and over-sermonized. Jane befriends a young girl named Helen Burns, who is whipped for a minor infraction and submits cheerfully. Mr. Brocklehurst, a cruel, hypocritical, and abusive man, arrives and imposes austerity. He makes an example out of Jane, whom he......
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