Explain how Jane’s experiences between Gateshead and Thornfield Hall affected her development as an individual.
...red room to be locked away. In this frightening room, Jane thinks she sees her uncle's ghost and begs to be set free. Mrs. Reed refuses to let Jane out in attempt to teach her a lesson. Jane begins to panic and passes out. When Jane woke up she was in her bed, and a kind physician, Mr. Lloyd, was standing over her. He insisted that Jane be sent off to school, because she was obviously unhappy at Gateshead. After advisement from Mr. Lloyd, Mrs.Reed decides to send Jane away to a school called Lowood. Jane’s harsh experience’s living at Gateshead occurred almost everyday, but I think these experiences helped Jane develop into a stronger person. After a difficult childhood, Jane was sent to Lowood School where the conditions are also difficult, but Jane prefers school to life with the Reeds. Lowood was a charity institution for orphan girls ran by Mr. Brocklehurst who provided the girls with starvation levels of food, freezing rooms, and poorly made clothing and shoes. Jane makes two new friends at Lowood: Miss Temple and Helen Burns. From Miss Temple, Jane learns proper ladylike behavior and compassion; from Helen she gains a more spiritual focus and experiences what it is like to actually have a friend. The schools harsh living conditions combined with the girls' near-starvation diet produces a typhus epidemic, in which nearly half the students die, including Helen Burns, who dies in Jane's arms.” You came to bid me good-bye, then: you are just in time probably.” “Are you going somewhere Helen? Are you going home?” “Yes; to my long home—my last home.” “No, no Helen!”(Ch.9, pg.69) After this tragedy, attention is brought to Lowood and Mr. Brocklehurst is fired. Jane is finally able to let loose and it shows, she becomes a star student very quickly. After six years of hard work she becomes an effective teacher at Lowood but with Miss Temple gone due to marriage Lowood seems different without her and Jane is ready for new challenges. At Lowood you actually can see Jane’s most predominate development into a unique individual. She is able to exceed everyone’s expectations and lands a job from a newspaper add and accept’s a position as governess for the young French ward of Edward Rochester, master of Thornfield Hall. By the time Jane arrives to Thronfield Hall she begins to find her place in society and learns she must control her passions. At Thornfield, Jane is very comfortable with life it’s well-stocked and silent library, her private room, the garden with its many chestnut and oak trees make it a veritable palace for Jane. Mr. Rochester was a princely and heroic master, despite his ireful frown and moody manner, Jane felt at ease in his presence. There was only one problem Thornfield Hall concealed secret’s from Jane as: who, or what, lives in the attic, under the stern and watchful eye of the semi-vigilant Grace Poole.” I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me.” (Ch.15 pg.126) Off and on, Jane heard bizarre, mysterious sounds at Thornfield. One evening, after the household had gone to sleep, Jane was awakened by the smell of smoke when she got up she found Mr. Rochester's bed on fire. These experiences bothered Jane but all disappeared one night, in the garden at Thornfield, when Mr. Rochester proposed marriage to Jane in which she happily accepted. Jane is very excited about marrying ...