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I heard the rain still beating continuously on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew by degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank. My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.
- Chapter XII
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- Chapter XII
Jane Eyre: Chapter 2. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Two servants, Bessie Lee and Miss Abbot, haul the wildly struggling Jane upstairs. Shocked at her violent outbreak, they scold her for disrespecting Mrs. Reed, her benefactress and master.
Summary: Chapter 1. The novel opens on a dreary November afternoon at Gateshead, the home of the wealthy Reed family. A young girl named Jane Eyre sits in the drawing room reading Bewick’s History of British Birds. Jane’s aunt, Mrs. Reed, has forbidden her niece to play with her cousins Eliza, Georgiana, and the bullying John.
Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel, wealthy aunt. A servant named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives, telling her stories and singing songs to her. One day, as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed, Jane’s aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room, the room in which ...
- Charlotte Brontë
- 1847
Prison, emphasis on isolation and emptiness. Big - intimidation. Feeling like the world has become a threat. Feels empty and cold. Jane feels like she has been stripped of her identity, she sees herself as an imp from children's fantasy tales. Imps are depicted as evil and Jane has been repeatedly told she is wicked and mad.
Summary. Miss Ingram and friends visit Thornfield. After a fortnight the party comes to stay at Thornfield. The house is prepared, extra servants are got in. During the preparations, Jane overhears part of a conversation about Grace Poole, but cannot make much sense of it as she is deliberately excluded from the mystery.
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Commentary. In this chapter the supernatural mixes with mundane detail about the Reeds, Jane’s origin and background. She is just ten and her fear of the ‘red-room’, connected as it is with death, seems quite natural. In addition to the child’s point of view, however, we are also given a privileged insight into her position by the adult ...
