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Then her aunt sends her away and she gets to Lowood Institution. The name of this school evokes in me a feeling of coldness as well as darkness. That is not only because of the tone of the word Lowood, but also because of its meaning. There are two words hidden in this place name, one of which is an adjective, "low- and the other being a noun, "wood-. The word "low- means lacking in vigour or depressed, and so it creates a feeling of sadness, unhappiness; it makes us "fell low- even when standing on its own. But when it is combined with the meaning of wood, the mood it creates is even more depressing, because we usually associate with it loneliness, absence of light, danger and even evil powers. And so Jane's life at Lowood is quite sorrowful without much joy, especially in the beginning when she has no friends. Later on, however, she manages to make a lot of friends, so the air in the institution becomes much friendlier, although the food and the other vital conditions remain unbearable. Later on - when living at Thornfield, she recollects: ".what it was to come back from church to Lowood, to long for a plenteous meal and a good fire, and to be unable to get either."" .
The next stop in Jane's life is the already mentioned Thornfield Hall and it means a real field of thorns for our heroine, it is the height of her sufferings. When she arrives at the new place she finds the inhabitants to be friendly and kind people who finally treat her as a valuable human being. Her sufferings begin the day she meets Mr Rochester. She falls in love with him, but she thinks that this love is inaccessible to her and that she cannot do anything: Mr Rochester is just playing with her feelings or at least this is what she feels. But Rochester just wants to make her jealous. This, however, causes her pain and she is so desperate in her love that she sees no way out. When she leaves Thornfield to go to Gateshead to say good-bye to Mrs Reed, she wants to forget.
