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Write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the importance of “home” to Jane Eyre and the reasons for its continuing influence. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, setting is used as a tool to reflect the hardships Jane Eyre faces. The locations Jane resides in play an important role in determining what steps she is to take next and illustrating the development of her character. Her migrant actions demonstrate her restless desire to find a purpose in life while respecting the nineteenth-century social codes that restrict her. Through Jane Eyre’s experiences at Gateshead, Lowood School, Thornfield Manor and Moor House, Charlotte Bronte illustrates Jane’s deep desire to find acceptance through her ever growing journey, as Bronte reveals that a home does not parallel location, but it relies in one’s company. Stories and classic literature often describe home as a location, a place of residency and acceptance. This white picket fence Read more complex is a fantasy Jane Eyre quickly learns is unrealistic. It is from Gateshead Hall, the home of her prejudice and insensitive aunt, Ms. Reed, and her horrible cousins, where Jane begins her journey. Jane feels constantly alone although surrounded by many at Gateshead. For “I was in discord in Gateshead Hall; it was like nobody was there; for I had no harmony in my life” (Bronte 19). This is due to the mistreatment Jane faces by the Reed family. Although linked by blood, the Reeds treat Jane with no respect as she takes the “Cinderella” role at Gateshead, being treated like a slave by her vicious and cruel family. She says to Aunt Reed after being locked into the Red Room for a night, “I am glad you are

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