Miss reed character

    Cards (20)

    • Mrs Reed's character
      • Primary antagonist to Jane Eyre at the beginning of the novel
      • Relentlessly torments Jane
      • Locks Jane in the red room believed to be haunted
      • Mistreats Jane despite her husband's wish for Jane to be raised alongside the Reed children
    • Reason why Mrs Reed tormented and hated Jane
      Mr Reed loved Jane so much and almost loved her more than even his own children, so Mrs Reed harbored intense jealousy and resentment towards Jane
    • Jane Eyre's early life
      • Mrs Reed is very formative
      • Makes Jane Eyre very vengeful initially
      • Jane learns how to forgive Mrs Reed
      • Even when dying, Mrs Reed isn't apologetic and justifies her previous behavior towards Jane
    • Mrs Reed: 'Under her light eyebrows glimmered a cold eye devoid of truth'
    • Truth (abstract noun)

      A noun that you can't touch, taste, feel or see
    • Mrs Reed was supposedly a very devout, good Christian woman, but her treatment of Jane Eyre illustrates that she was hypocritical and did not follow the word in the gospel
    • Jane Eyre: 'People think you a good woman, but you are bad, hard-hearted'
    • Oxymoron
      The opposite of good versus bad
    • Repetition of 'you'

      Illustrates how Jane is damning of her aunt Mrs Reed
    • Mrs Reed: 'She had a raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow'
    • Ascended cinderton listing
      Raised, imperious, despotic - illustrates the evil nature of Mrs Reed's appearance and character
    • Mrs Reed: 'Silence! This violence is almost repulsive'
    • Exclamatory sentence
      Shows Mrs Reed being harsh when speaking to the young Jane Eyre
    • Superlative adjective 'most'
      Indicates the most extreme content, in this case the hatred seeping through Mrs Reed's words to Jane
    • Mrs Reed: 'I could not forget your conduct to me, Jane'
    • Alliteration of 'c'

      Could and conduct, illustrating Mrs Reed's unforgiving nature
    • When Jane's uncle asks Mrs Reed about Jane, Mrs Reed tells him she doesn't know and is probably dead, as an act of revenge to prevent Jane's social climb
    • Jane Eyre: 'Dying, she must hate me still'
    • Verb 'hate'
      Illustrates Mrs Reed's cold, unrepentant character until the end
    • Mrs Reed is characterized as a very hateful character, the primary antagonist who gives Jane a massive challenge in her early years, but also teaches Jane about forgiveness