Themes

Themes

• Religion
• Superiority
• Fear
• Inequality (gender/ status)
• Irony
• Independence
• Social hierarchy/ class/status
• Hypocrisy
• Romance
• Individuality/ uniqueness
• Superstition/ fantasy
• Unconventionality
• Loneliness
• Gothic
• Injustice
• Death/ loss
• Hardship/ privation

Religion

• Evangelism- Brocklehurst- old testament- believes in hell/ punishment and God
• New Testament- Helen Burn- believes in God as a protector- forgiveness- sacrifice and piety (dutiful respect or regard/ fulfillment of religious obligations.)
• Calvinism- St John Rivers- self- deprivation- god selects people to teach christian religion.

Religion: Quotes

• Evangelism- Brocklehurst
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• "We are not to conform to nature; i wish these girls to be the children of Grace"
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• New Testament - Helen Burns
• Calvinism- St John Rivers

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