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Jane Eyre

e's anger and the assistance of Dr. Lloyd are the catalysts that inspire Aunt Reed to write Lowood Institution to have Jane considered for acceptance. Mr. Brocklehurst, the master of Lowood, brings a ray of hope to Jane by affording her the opportunity to leave Gateshead and enter Lowood Institution. This fleeting feeling is short lived after Aunt Reed informs Mr. Brocklehurst, Jane has "a tendency to deceit". (490) Consumed with anger, Jane lashes out at her Aunt Reed with verbal assaults after Mr. Brocklehurst leaves. She requests to leave Gateshead for Lowood Institution immediately. Although Jane is feeling euphoric by her passionate display of anger, she begins to feel begins to feel overwhelmed by "the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction". (493)Jane leaves Gateshead to enter her new life at Lowood Institution. Upon entering the grounds, she is intrigued by the sign and the scripture she views posted over the door: "LOWOOD INSTITUTION, Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." - St. Matt. V.16. (501) Unable to comprehend the meaning of "institution", she befriends Helen Burns to interpret the meaning. Helen explains, "[Lowood] is partly a charity-school . . . and this is called an institution for educating orphans". (502) Jane soon realizes that Lowood Institution is not an improvement over Gateshead. The struggle to accept her new life and the relentless treatment are a challenge for her. Angered by the humiliation Helen endures by one of the teachers, Miss. Scatcherd, Jane expresses this to Helen stating, "if I were in your place I should dislike her; I should resist her, if she struck me with that rod, I should get it from her hand; I should break it under her nose." (506) Helen attempts to explain the virtues of humility while still maintaining one's pride. Helen tells Jane, "it is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody fee...

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