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A 3 page essay that discusses the beginning of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. The writer focuses on the description of Jane as a child and what this tells the reader about the character. No additional sources cited.
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narrative voice of Jane comment on herself as a child, an orphan, living with relatives who resented her presence in their household. Jane was brought to the Reed home at
Gatehead by her uncle after her parents both died of typhus. Unfortunately her loving uncle also soon died, leaving Jane at the mercy of Mrs. Reed. The beginning of the
novel shows Janes inherent resiliency, as she weathers the ill treatment of her aunt and cousins, without allowing this to warp her perceptions or devolve into hate, which would have
corrupted her psychic life without harming the Reeds. The novel opens with Jane sitting in a secluded nook in the drawing room where she is browsing a book of
birds. She is obviously bored and lonely, but she has been forbidden by Mrs. Reed to interact with her cousins. Recalling the details of her childhood at Gateshead Hall, the
adult narrative voice of Jane recalls that, as a child, she constituted a discord in the Reed family and that she had "nothing in harmony" with either her aunt,
Mrs. Reed, or her cousins. The adult Jane does not appear to hold any sort of a grudge that her relatives held no affection for her, as they could not
"sympathize" with her, as she was the opposite of them in "temperament, in capacity,...a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure" (Bronte). The adult Jane
argues that had she herself been a different sort of child, then things might have gone differently. Jane, as a child, seems to have taken refuge in books and her
own imagination, which is something to which her relatives could not relate. She also, from childhood, refused to be display the humble, passive nature that was expected both of women
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