Chapter 7 Flashcards
Brocklehurst, his daughters and Jane's punishment
How is the school dangerous?
“Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold”
“the clothes drying on the line… in a very bad state of repair”
“two clean tuckers in a week… it is too much; the rules limit them to one”
What is Mr Brocklehurst’s purpose of the school?
“my plan in bringing up these girls is, not to accustom them to habits of luxury and indulgence, but to render them hardy, patient and self-denying”
“My mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh”
What does Mr Brocklehurst pick on about the girls and what does he make them do? Why is this contradicting?
“What is that girl with curled hair… curled all over?” “we are not to conform to nature… that girl’s hair must be cut off entirely” BUT WHEN HIS DAUGHTERS COME in “velvet, silk and furs” and “a false front of french curls”
How does Jane react to her punishment from Mr Brocklehurst? What is she surprised by from the other girls?
she could not “stir… [she] was paralysed” “exposed to the general view on a pedestal of infamy… stifling my breath and constricting my throat”
but then when the girls “lifted her eyes” to look at Jane it sent “an extraordinary sensation” to her.
