Settings of jane eyre

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This sprawling house is almost her whole world Jane has been here for most of her ten years Her life as a child is sharply defined by the walls of the house She is not made to feel wanted within them and continues throughout the novel to associate Gateshead with the emotional trauma of growing up under its "hostile roof with a desperate and embittered heart." Gateshead, the first setting is a very nice house, though not much of a home As she is constantly reminded by John Reed, Jane is merely a dependent here. When she finally leaves for Lowood, as she remembers later, it is with a "sense of outlawry and almost of reprobation." Lowood is after all an institution where the orphan inmates or students go to learnWhereas at Gateshead her physical needs were more than adequately met, while her emotional needs were ignored