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