Chapter's One - Four (JANE EYRE)

Chapter one starts off by introducing us to Jane Eyre. Jane is obviously a very unhappy child and this is made clear right from the start. The first chapter uses techniques such as metaphors and pathetic fallacy to show Jane's unhappiness and possibly even depression. The reader soon finds out why Jane is so unhappy when the charachter of John is introduced. John is Jane's cousin and her main tormentor. He hits and abuses her which leads to retalliation on Jane's side. Jane's aunt blames Jane for the incident and, as a punishment, Jane is locked in the red room; the room in which Jane's late uncle died. Jane's expierience of this room is not good and she ends up seeing (or thinking she sees) a ghost. This event sends Jane into shock and she passes out. When she comes round, Jane is being looked after by Bessie, one of her aunts servants, in the nursery. She gets visited by a docor who says that Jane is extremely ill and that she could die at any time. At the end of chapter four Jane's aunt has a meeting with the headmaster of lowood school. Jane is to be sent to this school in the hope that she will be made into a respectable young lady. Jane is very optomistic about starting school as she hates life at her aunts house. Her aunt is obviously pleased that she will not have to see or look afte Jane any more as she obviously hates her.