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Jane and Mrs Reed
Jane and Mrs Fairfax
Jane and Adele
Jane and Helen Burns
Jane and Diana and Mary Rivers
Jane and Miss Temple
In _________________ we have a direct comparison with Jane. The clear contrast in their characters emphasises Jane's determined nature and her indignance at injustice: 'And 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' (Chapter 6).
As Jane leaves Lowood for Thornfield, we can be optimistic for her future for the first time in the text due to the influence her relationship with _________________ has had on her: 'I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits: more harmonious thoughts: what seemed better regulated feelings had become the inmates of my mind ... I appeared a disciplined and subdued character' (Chapter 10).
Jane's influence on _________________ is clear and her influence on _________________ has parallels with Miss Temple's influence on her: 'I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled' (Chapter 38).
As a child, Jane's place in the world is entirely determined by her aunt; her aunt's decisions play a pivotal role in the future paths Jane's life takes: 'I should wish her to be brought up in a manner suiting her prospects ... to be made useful, to be kept humble: as for the vacations, she will, with your permission, spend them always at Lowood' (Chapter 4).
Jane's relationship with _________________ is a clear contrast with her other cousins: 'I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced' (Chapter 30). The emotive vocabulary, such as 'delighted' and 'reverenced', emphasises Jane's very high regard for them.
Jane's first experience of love is through her relationship with _________________: 'she seemed dearer to me than ever; I felt as if I could not let her go' (Chapter 9). Their relationship clearly plays a significant role in Jane's life.
In contrast to Jane's treatment at the hands of her family, immediately on arrival at Thornfield, Jane is made to feel welcome and is taken care of: 'She conducted me to her own chair, and then began to remove my shawl and untie my bonnet-strings' (Chapter 11).
Moreover, it is due to her aunt's vindictiveness – her personal dislike of Jane – that Jane is prevented from living with her uncle, who, unlike her aunt, wants to take care of her: 'I disliked you too fixedly and thoroughly ever to lend a hand in lifting you to prosperity' (Chapter 21).
Jane's close bond with _________________ is clear: 'Resting my head on _________________'s shoulder, I put my arms round her waist; she drew me to her, and we reposed in silence' (Chapter 8). For a child who has been shown no affection by the extended family she lived with, her relationship with _________________ demonstrates true, loving affection, despite their very different characters.
Jane's very close bonds with the female characters in the text are a sharp contrast to her aunt's thorough dislike of her, emphasising that Jane is not at fault. Given the opportunity to know her family on her father's side, Jane is wholly accepted and loved: 'Our natures dovetailed: mutual affection – of the strongest kind – was the result' (Chapter 30). Jane fits in here perfectly, 'dovetailed', emphasised by the mutuality of the relationship.
There is irony in the fact that Jane's only negative female relationship is the one with her family member: 'I approached my cheek to her lips: she would not touch it' (Chapter 21).
Jane's life can be characterised by the relationships she forms with the other female characters. She learns and grows from each relationship: 'I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less' (Chapter 30).
_________________ is clearly protective of Jane, adding to the sense that she plays a motherly role to Jane: 'Equality of position and fortune is often advisable in such cases; and there are twenty years of difference in your ages. He might almost be your father'. Here we see the attitudes towards social class of the time (Chapter 24).
Jane's perceptive nature is emphasised through her work: 'I felt it would be injudicious to confine her too much at first; so, when I had talked to her a great deal, and got her to learn a little ... I allowed her to return to her nurse' (Chapter 11). As Jane is the narrator of the text, it is important for the reader to recognise that her judgements are perceptive.
Through Jane's conversations with _________________, and Jane's response to her attitudes and beliefs, Brontë makes a comment on Christian meekness: 'If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way' (Chapter 6). As the protagonist of the text, we are encouraged to admire Jane's perspective.
Jane receives advice and guidance from _________________ , who is a maternal figure in Jane's life: 'I'll tell you how to manage so as to avoid the embarrassment of making a formal entrance' (Chapter 17).
There is a clear link between Jane's relationship with Mrs Fairfax and her relationship with _________________ through the concern Jane has of their opinions of her: 'I watched her eye with painful anxiety, expecting every moment to see its dark orb turn on me a glance of repugnance and contempt' (Chapter 7). These are two women whom Jane clearly respects and as such, both are role models for her.
There is much bitterness in Jane's portrayal of her relationship with her family, emphasised by the repetition of 'hate': 'living, she had ever hated me – dying, she must hate me still' (Chapter 21)
Jane immediately forms a bond with _________________: 'My heart really warmed to the worthy lady as I heard her talk; and I drew my chair a little nearer to her, and expressed my sincere wish that she might find my company as agreeable as she anticipated' (Chapter 11).
The significance of Jane's relationship with _________________ is clear: 'to her instruction I owed the best part of my acquirements ... she had stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and latterly, companion' (Chapter 10). During Jane's formative years, she is everything to her.
_________________'s opinion of her is important to Jane, emphasised by the fact that Jane doesn't want _________________ to think badly of her even 'temporarily': 'I felt a pang at the idea she should even temporarily misconstrue what she had seen' (Chapter 23).
Jane's relationship with _________________ is balanced between her position of authority and _________________'s position in the household. This balance is clear in the mutuality of their relationship: 'She ... entertained for me a vivacious, though perhaps not very profound affection, and by her ... efforts to please, inspired me, in return with a degree of attachment sufficient to make us both content in each other's society' (Chapter 11).
For Jane, _________________ is idealised as a female character: '_________________ had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviated into the ardent, the excited, the eager' (Chapter 8). Despite this, she also stands up for what is correct when the need arises. Her influence on Jane, both as a child and an adult, is clear.