Since childhood Jane Eyre had been ostracized from being born into a caste system that seemed to have a nonexistent place for her spot in society. This born into caste system came with many views, which set many authoritarian views about how one should act and reside. Jane was an orphaned child born from a family that was thought as unconventional, due to her mother marrying to a clergyman who is of a lower stature in society. Therefore, as a child at Gates Head she was regarded as a parasite on the Reed's family. Jane's aunt, Mrs. Reed, always tortured her for this reason. For example, she was

eventually forbidden to play with her three cousins. Also, inhumane punishment was a norm for her childhood. For instance "...I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm: not soon enough, however; the volume was flung, it hit me, and I fell, striking my head against the door and cutting..."(Bronte 8). John Reed, who forcefully aimed this book at Jane, also portrayed the family views towards Jane "...you are a dependent, mamma says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not live here with gentlemen's children like us, and eat the same meals we do, and ware clothes at our mamma's expense."(Bronte 8). Jane is stuck in a social caste of her own. Her education and upper class lifestyle are those of a superior class but she has no wealth. So she is forced to live on charity of others, making her in some respects below servants and certainly not someone to be treated with respect. Jane's life prolongs with more acts of social imprisonment. After John had wounded Jane, she was carried off to the red room and incarcerated for her exchange of words in her defense. Her banishment to the red room depicts her inferior arrangement with comparison to the rest of the household. This foreshadows what repercussions will follow in her adulthood for her actions. Where the household is a metaphor for society and its caste system and the red room is a metaphor for her position in life by society views, which is banishment of any social means. Upper caste will pose challenges throughout the book to her freedom of movement, personal growth, corrupt morals and religion will also form hazards to the characters' development, Jane Eyre.

In the next chapters of her life she strikes out on her own. This section shows the most apparent view of Jane. She leaves Rochester and Thornfield and is forced to sleep outdoors which exemplifies her endurance and strength to maintain liberation. Not only does this illustrate to the reader, Jane's personal character and attributes but also the caste system in which she struggles through. When Jane experiences the troubles of the poor, the novel presents us with a depressing sight of a society in which the needy are shunned out of greediness and distrust which only entraps the poor into the cell of their caste. In this section of the novel, Jane Eyre obtains freedom from imprisonment. In Victorian times women had no rights and were considered possessions. For Jane to attain freedom from imprisonment in wedlock would be unattainable for this era. If she were to maintain this phase of freedom she w

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