“Nibbed fingers and toes”
This quote reflects the weather but it also shows how she feels this quote says Jane feels cold inside and she doesn’t feel accepted into the family. With Jane being an orphan that also creates sympathy.
Bronte uses emotive language like ”sombre” and “dismal” to show how she feels.
Using social context also creates sympathy, charlotte uses social to show us what it would be like for Jane if she didn’t live with her aunt.
“You ought to beg”
John believes that Jane isn’t worthy enough to live in their house has she has no money or anything of value.
“You have no money; your father left you none”
“You are under obligations to Mrs Reed; she keeps; if she were to turn you off you would have to go to the poor house”
One of the servant told Jane she is only staying there because she has to not because her aunty wants her to. Jane's like a burden to her aunt.
Jane's character helps create sympathy because she is forward for her age.
“I was but ten”
Jane wanted more from her life she wanted further education, as she was a bright girl
. She wanted the type of education that men had the chance of.
“Mysterious often to my undeveloped mind understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever so proudly interesting”
“I slipped in there, it contained a book case; I soon possessed a volume”
This quote means Jane is a curious girl and that shed like to learn more.
“I mounted on the window-seat; gathering up my feet, I sat crossed legged, like a Turk”
This quote creates sympathy because the only time Jane isn’t getting told of is when she is alone reading a book on a window ledge.
The household view Jane as an out of control little girl.
“She’s like a mad cat”
“She’s and underhand little thing”
This is because Jane has too much will and character and she wont break down
Even though Jane was an older person in her mind she was still a little girl
“I was but ten”
Bronte creates a lot of sympathy for Jane by writing about her in the red room.
The red room is terrifying for Jane as that room is where her uncle laid dead while people paid their respects.
“Mr Reed had been dead nine years, it was wear he breathed his last breath”
The red room to Jane means death as she lost both her parents and her uncle so death is Jane’s worst fear the red room is like a mosque as her uncle laid dead there.
After her uncles death no one has been in that room.
“Take her away to the red room, and lock her in there”
Mrs Reed instantly ordered the slaves to take Jane to the red room if it had been one of her children shed of sent them to there rooms. Mrs red knows it’s the worst place for Jane as her uncle laid dead there, so she acted on it.
The red room was a luxurious place. It was beautiful with its deep red furniture and the paintings, however it was seldom used
No one slept in the red room
“The red room was a spare chamber, very seldom slept in”
“Oh aunt! Have pity! Forgive me! I cannot endure it let me be punished some other way”
Jane cannot bear to be there so she begs to be somewhere else and punished differently.
Jane says and feels that she’s going to die if she stays in there and she nearly does she passes out.
“Tiny phantoms, half fairies, half imps”
Jane starts to hallucinate and then she passes out.
This novel is set in the style that biographies are set out and wrote, linear
Linear style is when you start at a young age and finish at an old age.
In conclusion, Bronte creates sympathy for Jane by describing the red room, which is a “spare chamber” that Jane fears at gates hall, she fears this room because its associated with death, because her uncle laid there to rest after he’d died. The red room was a large dreamy room with a lot of bedroom items. The readers give Jane sympathy because she’s young vulnerable and being orphaned, living with hr aunt, three cousins in a new house that makes it even worse. John the eldest of her cousins is a bully to Jane. He thinks that he is the man of the house and he owns it all but later in life he will.
Her aunt didn’t show Jane any affection, which showed that Jane was not wanted.
Mrs Reed, Jane's aunt, sent Jane to boarding school to get rid of her.
I feel sorry for Jane, as she hadn’t had an easy life; she hasn’t had a child hood. She had such a hard childhood as she’s had no one to care for her or show any affection in the household and the opening two chapters give the reader a glimpse of the struggle Jane will have in adult life
