![]() ![]() Jane has always lived within confining walls and even as a teacher at Lowood had to get permission to leave. Thornfield is in the open country and Jane is free from restrictions on her movements. ![]() Once again, Jane changes setting and circumstance and into a world that is completely new to her experience. She has learned a great deal but all she finds for herself, when she does finally decide to leave, is “a new servitude.” The idea that she might be free in an unbounded world is not yet part of her experience - in a sense, it never will be. Jane stays inside the walls of Lowood for eight years. By learning, Jane earns greater respect, and eventually, she becomes a teacher there, a position of relative power, all the more so compared to what she left behind at Gateshead. At Lowood, Jane learns that knowledge is the key to power. ![]()
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