Jane Eyre
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Jane as a result becomes defensive against cruel judgement. The nursemaid Bessie proves to be Jane's only ally in the household even though Bessie occasionally scolds Jane harshly. Excluded from the family activities Jane leads an unhappy childhood with only a doll and books with which to entertain yourself. One day as punishment of defending herself against her cousin John Reed. Jane is relegated to the red room in which her late uncle had died there, she faints from panic after she thinks she has seen his ghost. The red room is significant because it lays the grounds for the "unambiguous relationship between parents and children" which plays about in all of Jane's future relationship. She is subsequently attended to by the kindly apothecary Mr.Loyld to whom Jane reveals how unhappy she is living at Gateshead Hall. He recommends to Mrs. Reed that Jane should be sent to school an idea Mrs. Reed happily supports. Mrs Reed then enlists the aid of the harsh Mr. Brocklehurst who is the director of the Lowood Institution, a charity school for girls to enroll Jane. Before Jane leaves however she confronts Mrs Reed and declares that she will never call her aunt again. Jane also tells Mrs Reed and her daughters Georgiana and Eliza that they are the ones who are deceitful and that she wil tell everyone at Lowood how cruelly the Reeds treated her
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