Research Task 2: The Red Room

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Bessie Lee one of the Reed houshold servants, witnessed that Jane’s cousin was the one that firstly attacked Jane, but Bessie could not have told Miss Reed this, because she was one of the employees of the household. In telling the truth Bessie could lose her job. Bessie tries to comfort Jane after Miss Reed left, so Jane would be beter prepared next time. In knowing how to prevent this experience from happening again will contribute to Jane’s life. Unfortunately Bessie is an employee so she must respect Miss Reed’s decisions fot the sake of her job, even if she does not aprove of them.


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I do agree with Rich’s argument that it is in the Red room, where Jane’s mind set changes to a better life for her as woman, to choose her life with pride. From a young age Jane was seen as an outcast under her cousins and family, because she was not of the same class as them. Jane was treated differently and felt rejected by her own family.  Jane is still dependant of her family, that’s why she behaves in an orderly manner to show her appreciation. It is when Jane is tired of pretending to play the perfect role and when she looses her mind, which causes the incident of the red room.
As a young girl, Jane was unable to stand up for what she believes in, but her first opportunity, after she was sent away to Lowood, is at school. Jane then makes a decision in the red room that would change her life forever. Jane decides that she will not fall under the rules of society, class, gender or her family and that she would rather follow her own mind instead. Jane comes to this conclusion from the very first moment she was placed in the red room unfairly, because this was her first big injustice that somebody has done to her and thus changes her mind set and her point of view in life.

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Jane as young orphan experienced a lot of rejection and whished she was loved more by the people around her.  On a later stage of the novel, Jane tries and restores her feelings from the past by showing a lot of attention and love toward Adel, Mr. Rochester’s daughter. When Bertha loses her mind and try to attack Jane and burn down her house, Jane is reminded of the presence of her uncle’s ghost and her experience of the misterious fear against something unknown.
Jane is countlessly humiliated by people in her society. It is in Logwood, where Jane is again bad mouthed by someone that is of a higher class then she was and this person also accused Jane for being different. Even when Jane falls deeply inlove with Mr Rochester she is again humiliated by the fact thet he is married to a crazy woman.
In the novel Jane gets sent away, because of the red room incident but it is after Jane’s humiliation of her own wedding that Jane chose to flee her own way. The incident of the red room and effects that the red room had on Jane, influenced a lot of Jane’s decisions threw out the novel.