![]() ![]() One day, as punishment for 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 "ambiguous relationship between parents and children" which plays out in all of Jane's future relationships with male figures throughout the novel. She is subsequently attended to by the kindly apothecary Mr. Lloyd to whom Jane reveals how unhappy she is living at Gateshead Hall. Reed that Jane should be sent to school, an idea Mrs. Reed then enlists the aid of the harsh Mr. Brocklehurst, who is the director of Lowood Institution, a charity school for girls, to enroll Jane. ![]() Brocklehurst that Jane has a "tendency for deceit", which he interprets as Jane being a liar. Before Jane leaves, however, she confronts Mrs. Reed and declares that she'll never call her "aunt" again. Reed and her daughters, Georgiana and Eliza, that they are the ones who are deceitful, and that she will tell everyone at Lowood how cruelly the Reeds treated her. Reed is hurt badly by these words, but does not have the courage or tenacity to show this. Lowood Institution Īt Lowood Institution, a school for poor and orphaned girls, Jane soon finds that life is harsh. ![]()
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