Social Class

Question 1

Mr Brockelhurst says this to the girls at Lowood to justify his sadistic policies

Answer 1

“My mission is to mortify these girls”

Consonance

Question 2

“Poverty looks grim…”

Answer 2

“Poverty looks grim to grown people… To me, poverty was synonymous with degradation”
Metaphor: poverty looks grim
Shows how the upper classes’ prejudice of poverty infects the minds of vulnerable children
Jane - who is poor and has nothing - hates poverty because of the Reeds family