Question

What aspects of charlotte Bronte's early live clearly influenced this passage? Jane Eyre is the passage. My options are 1. Her association with literary circles in London 2. The death of her two sisters 3. Her education and subsequent work as a teacher 4. The isolation in which the Bronte sisters lived.

Answer 1

Brontë inherited the Romantic view of the importance of childhood perception. In Jane Eyre she dramatises it within Jane's experience of the social world of the early nineteenth century:
•She is very aware of the vulnerability of children who are at the mercy of adults like Mrs. Reed (who finds them tiresome) or Brocklehurst (who sees them as little sinners)
•She was also conscious of the way in which society brands or categorises children, as in institutions like Lowood School
•The demands of society and family circumstance might force children into adulthood much too early by subjecting them to experiences – again like Lowood School – for which they are not prepared
•Charlotte Brontë also seems to have placed much value on the perceptions of children, and although the events of Jane Eyre are recollected by the narrator in adulthood, she attempts to come as close as possible to Jane's childhood experiences and does not question the validity of her view of them.