Jane Eyre: Ladies First

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to
take responsibility for her action. She is put to the test by her daily
teasing and abuse from her cousins. When she is brought to a boarding
school she soon distinguishes herself through her classes. Eventually ends
up in Thornfield where she meets Edward Rochester.
While growing up in Gateshead Hall, Jane is treated less than a
servant. Her cousins John, Eliza, and Georgiana Reed remind Jane she has
no worth and is an unwelcome relative. Out of the three cousins John was
one of the meanest, not only of Jane Eyre but of all living creatures.

�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 of the
choicest plants in the conservatory:�(pg.9)

Jane becoming unable to withstand her treatment at Gateshead Hall she is
sent to Lowood, a boarding school for the poor. Before she leaves
Gateshead she tells her aunt how ...

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hope to be useful to their families in some way or other. But a
farmer can need none of my help, and is therefore in one sense as much
above my notice as in every other he is below it.�(pg.29)

In helping Harriet, Emma discourages her interest in Robert Martin because
she is from a more conventional family than his. Emma then sets Harriet
with Mr. Philip Elton to be his future spouse. This planned fail because
of Mr. Elton loved Emma instead of Harriet.
Jane Eyre soon arrives in Lowood, where she becomes friends with
Helen Burns, a sickly child whose saint-like encouragement helps Jane with
the hardships of school life. Here is where Jane's renewal in faith starts
to develop. ...

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