Helen Burns character

    Cards (5)

    • Helen Burns
      Jane's first friend at Lowood, an extremely devout girl who is ill with "consumption" (tuberculosis)
    • Helen Burns
      • Helps Jane to accept her situation and moderate her outspoken behaviour
    • Brontë uses Helen
      To represent the acceptance of injustice in the context of Christian faith
    • Jane does not agree with Helen entirely
      Rejecting her focus on the afterlife as a solution to suffering in life
    • This allows Brontë to show that faith in the afterlife is not a universal solution to human injustice
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