jane eyre 2

Jane Eyre 2
The first 45 pages of the book “Jane Erye” give the reader a good look into Jane’s bleak life. She lives with her abusive aunt and three cousins who beat her and works as a sort of servant for them, her uncle who loved her and took her in when she didn’t have anyone has died and there is no one to protect her and make sure she is treated fairly. Charlotte Bronte makes Jane’s life seem so lonely and alienated from others even though she is related to the family she lives with, they treat her like a slave and don’t let her associate with them. They don’t let her sit with them and tell her to refer to them as her masters. Bronte probably gives Jane this job and puts her in this particular position because of how she felt in her lifetime and uses Jane’s sad life and situation to project her own life tragedies. Jane’s own cousins, aunt, one of the servants are all her enemies. Her one allie consists of one of the servants named Bessie who comforts her and helps her to the best of her abilities without Jane‘s aunt knowing. In this section of the book, Jane is locked up in the red room when she fights back at her cousin who injures her and thinks she sees a ghost appear in the room were her uncle died. She screams but the servants and her aunt think that she’s just trying to trick them into letting her out and keep her in there. Jane then wakes up in her room with Bessie and a plant doctor who tell her that she’s fallen ill. She tells the doctor of how unhappy she is in that place and all he can tell her is that she’s fortunate to have such a kind aunt and cousins and that she should be happy and grateful to live in such a splendid house. She just nods and her life as a Cinderella figure continues.