In chapter 1, Jane is continuingly being victimised by her cousins especially John, physically and mentally. ... It is because of John's taunting and abuse that Jane is unfairly locked in the Red Room. She reacts to John throwing a library book at her head for no reason. ... Mr Brocklehurst is saying what he has heard from Mrs Reed without physically seeing it happen. ... At this point, Jane learns courage from Helen as she sees her smiling at her though she had heard earlier on, Helen had been "condemned by Miss Scratcherd" (P.67) to a dinner of bread and water as she had "blotted an exe...

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• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

Jane Eyre is a well-known gothic English novel publishes during the Victorian period by Charlotte Bronte. The novel contains the social criticism of sexuality, religion and feminist, which considered to be ahead of its time. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys has written a prequel to Jane Eyre. It main...

• Word Count: 4886
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School