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Bessie was aware that Jane’s cousin was the one who attacked her first, but because of her job position she had to keep her distant. When Miss Reed is not present she comforts Jane and try to give her advice on how to handle such situations in the future so that she doesn’t have to through it again. She wants to help Jane in a way, but she knows that she can’t stand up against her employer. She doesn’t think Miss Reed’s actions good but realize that she can lose her job if she chooses Jane’s side. So she has to keep her distant from the way the Reed family is treating poor Jane, to keep her job.
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After the incident with Jane’s cousin and the red room scene she is determined to live and rather choose a life with dignity, integrity and pride. Even after being treated as the outcast in the Reed family and look down up Jane keeps her dignity. Everybody around her rejects her, but she realizes that she is remains dependant on them for her basic needs. She starts to act crazy instead of always trying to portray the role of the perfect child.
She decides to go to school in the red room. This decision was a life changing decision. Growing up with the Reed family, she could never stand up for herself. When she leaves for school her opportunity aroused for the first time. In this room she decides that she will no longer be tied to society, men and her family.
After being thrown into the red room and been treated unfairly she rebels from the moment. This is the first big injustice that anybody has done to her. It is at the moment where Jane realizes that she needs to take things in her own hands and live her life with dignity, integrity and pride. She goes to school for herself and becomes her own determined person.
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The red room incident influences her choices a great lot threw out the novel. Growing up as an orphan se didn’t feel loved or like she belonged. This could be the reason for her affection towards Adel, Mr. Rochester’s daughter. Bertha’s attack on Jane also reminds her of the fear she had against something unknown and mystic that she felt in the presence of her uncle’s ghost. This feeling creeps up again when Bertha tries to burn down the house and act all crazy. Mr Rochester humiliates Jane after she discovers that he is still married the day at their wedding. This is in a way the same humiliation she felt the day of the red room incident. The only difference is that of the wedding she decides to flee from Thornfield, where after the red room incident she got sent away. During her time at Logwood Jane also gets accused of being crazy. The humiliation she felt here could be linked to the humiliation she felt when her aunt whom was of higher authority threw her in the red room. Jane’s choice throughout the novel is based on the causes and the outcomes of the red room incident and has a great effect on her.
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