A Psychological Analysis Of Jane's Growing Up At Gateshead

Once again, Jane is unfairly judged and it appears to her that the new life she seeks is long gone. She’s labeled as the outcast, similar to the way she’s treated at Gateshead. (Moseley 3) Jane is stricken; however, Helen Burns assuages the pain. Jane’s friendship with Helen Burns plays a crucial role in controlling her zealous manner. Helen is the archetype of a pure-hearted, caring person with genuine intentions. Her ability to withstand unfair treatment while she maintains her composure provides a role model for Jane to look up to. It’s this persona that Jane desperately needs at this point in her life, especially following the humiliation by Mr. Brocklehurst concerning her fate at Lowood. She teaches Jane the importance of self-control and

Jane begins her life in isolation at Gateshead, abused and misunderstood by her Aunt Reed and cousins. She is constantly reminded of her worthlessness to them and the fact that they view her as a burden, and is literally

Basically Jane was taken by her aunt reed who doesn 't really like Jane very much she allows her son to abuse Jane she punishes Jane in the worst way, and when it came down to the end Jane decided to to go to school. But it wasn 't a high quality prep school it was lowwood an all girls school for people of less fortune or wealth. That is where she meets a lot of people one of her best friends there was a girl named Helen. Jane attitude towards life is similar but at the same time

These attitudes she feels her family has towards her she then musters into her feelings toward John Reed as she refers to all his “violent tyrannies”. My feelings toward Jane are something between sympathy and adornment. She, as mentioned in the lecture, has a story similar to the ever so popular Cinderella. With that being said I am led to believe she has to have a happy ending. I am also led to believe that her character cannot be anything has her family claims. Throughout time women who are strong, smart, and independent are given a reputation of rebellion and wickedness. Independent and strong women have a tendancy of being feared. Jane Eyre is just a child whose character has become independent and strong because of the lack of love she is receiving from her “housing” arrangements (I will not call them family, as they have not acted as so). I am excited to see what happens as the novel continues and how outsiders continue to view Jane. I am also excited to see if Jane changes as the novel develops (though I really hope she does

Jane's childhood trauma results as a product of her times at Gateshed and Lowood. There were a series of irreversible problems that Jane had to deal with. She was born an orphan into a house devoid of love or respect for her. It is not overly emotionally healthy to live with the "ostracism by the Reed family and the unrelenting anxiety over the chidings of the servants, the violence of John Reed, and the punishments and berating of Mrs. Reed." (Ashe 10) Evidently, Jane had this lifestyle since she was little. This can be inferred from Mrs. Reeds loving statement "I hated it the first time I set my eyes on it-a sickly, whining, pining thing" (7)

Jane in her younger years was practically shunned by everyone and was shown very little love and compassion, from this throughout her life she searches for these qualities through those around her. Due to Jane’s mother’s disinheritance she was disowned by Mrs. Reed and her children, and was treated like a servant consistently reminded that she lacked position and wealth.

Jane is of course blamed for fighting with John Reed, so is punished. But Jane ‘’resisted all the way: a new thing for me’’ this is the first time in the novel that we see her starting to rebel and resist the Reed’s cruel behavior towards her. Jane couldn’t control her feelings ‘’I was a trifle beside myself’’. Again showing she wasn’t and couldn’t carry on receiving the abuse she was experiencing, she is starting to stick up for herself. Some critics say that this is because Jane had hit puberty and couldn’t control her emotions. This is why she had been experiencing sudden outbursts.

Furthermore, this demeaning and negative attitude Jane is exposed to is further instigated when her cousin, John Reed, expresses her situation by saying: "You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen's children like us". The truth of Jane's unfortunate situation is expressed against her which results in her feeling no true support from this family and confides only in her childhood nursemaid- Bessie, who although behaves inconsistently and has “a capricious and hasty temper”, is the closest mother figure to her. Furthermore, the friction between Jane and John is further emphasised when the first physical aspect of violence is introduced to the reader through a graphic portrayal, further showing the ultimate rejection Jane experienced

Although Jane’s experiences shift her character from somewhat “bad” to “good,” that doesn 't necessarily mean these changes happen overnight. For Jane to become the morally correct character she displays at the end of the novel, she had to make some faulty decisions and try to rectify them as well. For example, while reviewer Rebecca Taksel discussed My Year of Meats, she wrote about Jane claiming, “Takagi-Little’s eye is too honest, too individual, and too quirky to go along with this agenda as it is presented to her by her boorish boss, Joichi Ueno…” Although I agree with Taksel’s claim of Jane being “too individual, and too quirky” to tolerate Joichi’s boring and unoriginal visions of My American Wife!, I don’t necessarily visualize Jane as an honest

He does not want her to be able to think for herself and so he pushes her to be a “normal” person. Instead of being a husband who loves her for who she is, he tries to fix what is apparently wrong with her. He acts as her doctor by prescribing rest therapy, isolates her from others, and also stops her doing anything she enjoys most, like writing her diary. Jane does not opinionate and just agrees with him instead of becoming upset with her husband and expect that he is wrong. For example, when Jane mentions “I don't know why I should write this.

Due to his love for Jane, he is happy to throw caution to the wind, therefore disgracing himself in society’s eye, without a care for his reputation or appearance or those in his service and niche. Jane came across to me as someone who was not obsessed with society but who still took care in her appearance and the way people perceived her. For example, even though she was deeply in love with Mr Rochester she won’t marry him or be part of a bigamous relationship. She runs away to physically separate and remove herself from harm’s way due to her fearing that she might give into temptation, resulting her being totally at Rochester’s mercy as she would have been lost to society and labelled as a fallen woman. Also when St.John supposedly proposes to her about becoming his wife and travelling as a missionary wife, she refuses as to her it would not be right, she would rather go as a friend and a sister. St.John refuses this as it would not be deemed as appropriate and would slate both his and her name.

“The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” (Bronte 365) This quote verbalizes Jane’s will for independence and Charlotte Bronte’s views on insurgency against Victorian culture. Bronte must have viewed Jane’s rebellion against the Victorian Era’s oppressive values as capital.

In the early stages of Jane's life she was a very autonomous girl. She grew up in a hostile environment in the home of Mrs. Reed and her three children, John, Eliza, and Georgiana that is known as Gateshead. The Reed family showed no love or any sort of affection towards Jane in any way, shape, or form; for they all despised her. She spent most of her time out of contact of others. The most contact she had with someone was a

One of the people who she meets that ends up having an influence on her is Helen Burns. Helen is a girl who is very obedient and submissive. She let people tell her what to do and doesn’t really stand up for herself. Helen eventually dies of typhus fever, but for the short time that Jane knew her, she ended up having a big influence on how Jane acts in the future when she leaves Lowood. The book says, “Her grave is in Brocklebridge churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a grey passionate, but she didn’t show that as much as she did when she was still a young child, she learned to think before she acts.

Reed’s treatment of Jane is because if the fear of her fiery temper as well a robustness too, as she seemed a challenge of Reed’s headship and royalty. She does not like the attention her husband offers to Jane at a tender age as compared to her children, hence intends to sideline her both financially and socially as a way to retaliate for her enmity (240). Blanche Ingram isolates Jane too by calling her names like "creeping creature" (Blonte 225).She labels her since she realizes Rochester is interested in Jane, for her notion of the governesses as well as class snobbery, and relegates her to a space outside the social community. Jane has several strategies for countering the othering, sometimes she others herself. She dislodges herself from John Reed by viewing him as a "murderer," "slave-driver," and "Roman emperor" (Blonte 11).