Jane Eyre Discussion
Jane Eyre By: Charlotte Bronte Post #1: Bronte begins her tale of Jane Eyre’s life by immediately establishing the accepted opinion of the Reed family. The first few chapters really set the scene for Jane’s oppressed lifestyle. Bronte quickly dives into the plot which allows the mood to create for itself a chaotic gloom. Jane, the outcasted and orphaned cousin, is seen as worse off than a servant. It intrigues me that she would be hated by the servants as well because often in literature, the servants/nurses take particular interest in the outcasted child. The only character to even begin to sympathize with Jane is the apothecary. This is significant because he has the least amount of power to change her life, and yet he is the one she immediately feels safe around. Jane comments about her first encounter with the apothecary, saying, “I felt an inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security, when I knew that there was a stranger in the room” (Bronte 18). C...
