Both of them share the ideas of isolation, loneliness and abusing from society. Jane's parents died since she was young, her uncle kindly adopted her as his own child. Unfortunately, he died following her parents leaving her with his cruel wife Mrs. Reed and her children. When John, a son of Mrs. Reed, threw a book to Jane and they both started fighting. Mrs. Reed accused Jane to fight back her son by sending her into the "red-room", a room where uncle Reed died, as a punishment. Two servants help carried Jane to the room. Jane as an orphan child can be seen as lower than the servants. Jane has been suffering crueler treatment from her aunt and cousins. The red-room is a metaphor of imprisonments of women during the Victorian era. We can see that Jane went crazy being lock up in the red-room, it signifies that Antoinette became mad not because herself, but the treatment of the patriarchal society. It confirms the madness of Antoinette is partly, because she got locked up in the attic of the Thornfield Hall. During the Victorian era, the patriarchal society believes in the idea of "domestic angel" or women should keep away from society and stays at home do the housework, which Bronte book challenge this idea that men are women should stay in different sphere, as Jane said:.
"I am not an angel. And will not be one until I die.".
Jane then attends the girls' school, Lowood institution, where she received harsh life and harsh treatment from Mr. Brocklehurst and Miss Scatcherd. The bully of John signifies the male society that men are over women. The bad treatment from Aunt Reed and Miss Scatcherd also implies that even in male society women also oppress other women as well. Mr. Brocklehurst orders Jane to stand on a stool while he tells the school that she is a liar, and disallows the other students to talk to her. However, she becomes friend with Helen Burns, a kind young girl who receive harsh punishments from Miss Scatcherd without saying a word.
