Helen Burns Jane's spiritual and intellectual friend at Lowood. Although she is unfairly punished by Miss Scatcherd at Lowood, Helen maintains her poise, partially through her loving friendship with Miss Temple. From Helen, Jane learns tolerance and peace, but Jane can't accept Helen's rejection of the material world. Helen's impressive intellectual attainments inspire Jane to work hard at school.
Dying in Jane's arms, Helen looks forward to peace in heaven and eventual reunion with Jane. Maria Temple The warm-hearted superintendent at Lowood who generously offers the girls bread and cheese when their breakfasts are inedible. An impressive scholar, a model of ladylike behavior and a compassionate person, Miss Temple is a positive role model for Jane.
She cares for Jane and Helen, offering them seedcake in her room and providing Helen with a warm, private bed when she is dying. Miss Miller Teacher for the youngest students at Lowood who greets Jane on her first night at the school. Miss Scatcherd The history and grammar teacher at Lowood. She constantly humiliates and punishes Helen Burns. Miss Smith A red-cheeked teacher at Lowood who is in charge of sewing instruction. She warmly welcomes Jane to Thornfield, providing a contrast to Jane's cold treatment at Gateshead, the Reed's house.
Fairfax doesn't approve of Jane and Rochester's marriage because of the differences in their ages and social classes. When she leaves Thornfield after Jane's mysterious disappearance, Rochester offers her a generous pension.
Blanche Ingram The beautiful and haughty society woman Rochester pretends to love. Her comments about the insipidness of governesses show the lack of respect that most governesses faced in the wealthy Victorian families where they worked. As a fortune-hunter, more interested in Rochester's money than his personality, Blanche is depicted as an unappealingly materialist model of femininity.
Rochester discovers her true feelings when he overhears a conversation between her and one of her other lovers. He immediately breaks off relations with her. Her hypocrisy, sensuality, and materialism make her another negative mode of femininity. Bertha Antoinetta Mason Rochester Rochester's wife, the crazy woman in the attic. A Creole woman from Spanish Town, Jamaica, Bertha was betrothed to Rochester by the arrangement of their fathers, who planned to consolidate their wealth. This beautiful and majestic woman disintegrates into debauchery, coarseness, and, eventually, madness soon after their wedding.
Bertha's mother was also mad and the novel suggests that Bertha's problems are a maternal inheritance. Following the deaths of his brother and father, Rochester returns to England with Bertha, locking her up in the third story of Thornfield, with Grace Poole as her keeper. She occasionally escapes her imprisonment, perpetrating violence whenever she gets loose.
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My French was almost fluent after seven years of applying myself daily to the language, and Adele respected me at once for this reason. In the mornings, after breakfast, Adele and I withdrew to the library, the room Mr.
Rochester had directed should be used as the schoolroom. Most of the books for adult reading were locked up behind glass doors, except one bookcase left open containing everything that could be needed in the way of elementary works of literature, poetry, biography, travels, a few romances.
They were many more than had been available at Lowood. There was also a new and grand cabinet piano, an easel for painting and a pair of globes. Adele was a docile, though unenthusiastic pupil. She was a little spoilt and it was not easy for her to concentrate, however she was obedient and although she had no special talents, she made reasonable progress.
She studied with me until noon, and then she had some free time with her French nurse. She was friendly and loving and I became very fond of her. When I had to leave Thornfield Hall, after the interruption of my bigamous wedding, I travelled to a distant town to find work. My kind cousins, Mary, Diana, and St. John Rivers, who did not yet know they were my kin, neither did I, sheltered me from the cold and shared their meagre rations of food with me.
As soon as I recovered from my illness and arduous travels, I begged them to find me a job, because I did not want to be dependent on their charity. John was finally able to find me a job as a teacher.
John had hired a cottage with two rooms attached to a schoolroom with the intention of opening one. John and Mary.
Diana is a kind and intelligent person, and she urges Jane not to go to India with St. She serves as a model for Jane of an intellectually gifted and independent woman.
John and Diana. Mary is a kind and intelligent young woman who is forced to work as a governess after her father loses his fortune. Like her sister, she serves as a model for Jane of an independent woman who is also able to maintain close relationships with others and a sense of meaning in her life.
Rosamond is the beautiful daughter of Mr. Rosamond gives money to the school in Morton where Jane works. Although she is in love with St. John, she becomes engaged to the wealthy Mr. Uncle Reed is Mrs. In her childhood, Jane believes that she feels the presence of his ghost.
Because he was always fond of Jane and her mother his sister , Uncle Reed made his wife promise that she would raise Jane as her own child. It is a promise that Mrs. Reed does not keep. A Streetcar Named Desire Dr. Jekyll and Mr. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. John Rivers Helen Burns Mrs.
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