Thoughts and reflections

The chapters thus far have dealt with janes childhood and how it has shaped her growing up. as a child she is passionate, wild, strong of head and knows what she knows. These traits, however, are not desirable and we see them being gradually beaten and indoctrinated out of her by the conformation needs of gateshead(which largely fails) and then the Lowood indoctrination which is far more sucessful (she takes example from those she loves and uses their lives as an example of how to lead her own. I think that the constant contrast we see in Bronte's writing between bleakness and exotic wilderness signify the contrast within Jane of conformity vs non-conformity. It shall be interesting to see how this is reflected in later chapters.