In the first half of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Jane is a victim to herself in experiencing nearly uncontrollable outbursts, however after acquiring the ability to remain calm from a much needed feminine figure Jane is calm in most every nerve wrecking situation thrown upon her. All of the anger Jane encapsulates in herself throughout her life begins in one place, the red room. The traumatic event of losing both of Jane’s parents clearly caused part of the outbursts that she experiences at a young age, however the lack of love and bullying that is dolled out at Gateshead worsens the mental state of an already unstable child. After being locked in the red room Jane feels immense fear that Mr. Reed would rise from the dead in the chamber
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Reed to Lowood boarding school. Upon arrival at Lowood Jane meets a girl who changes her life in many ways named Helen. Helen is purely the opposite of Jane, calm in all situations, filled with grace, and believes in a faith. Even on her death bed while Helen, a young child is preparing for the inevitable she utters, “We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest … by dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world…” (97). Whereas today these opinions would be viewed as depressed and pessimistic, they meant so much to Jane because in that moment Helen was the only real friend that Jane had ever really known. While Helen’s attitudes of always suppressing negative feelings surely had a large impact on Jane, especially after the death of Helen, the most important influence in Jane’s early life is Miss. Temple. Temple teaches Jane some of the most basic yet important lessons that any mother should teach her children, lessons of patience, strength, composure, and kindness in the face of adversity. Regarding her transformation from always unhinged to a proper woman of society Jane “had undergone a transforming process; that my mind has put off all it had borrowed of Miss Temple… it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me,
Reed to Lowood boarding school. Upon arrival at Lowood Jane meets a girl who changes her life in many ways named Helen. Helen is purely the opposite of Jane, calm in all situations, filled with grace, and believes in a faith. Even on her death bed while Helen, a young child is preparing for the inevitable she utters, “We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest … by dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world…” (97). Whereas today these opinions would be viewed as depressed and pessimistic, they meant so much to Jane because in that moment Helen was the only real friend that Jane had ever really known. While Helen’s attitudes of always suppressing negative feelings surely had a large impact on Jane, especially after the death of Helen, the most important influence in Jane’s early life is Miss. Temple. Temple teaches Jane some of the most basic yet important lessons that any mother should teach her children, lessons of patience, strength, composure, and kindness in the face of adversity. Regarding her transformation from always unhinged to a proper woman of society Jane “had undergone a transforming process; that my mind has put off all it had borrowed of Miss Temple… it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me,