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Mr. Brocklehurst gets his kicks in life from going around intimidating little girls, keeping them half-starved and cold, and telling them that they’re going to hell for their sins, all while feeling self-righteous about doing it and thinking that God’s giving him a big thumbs-up.
Mr Brocklehurst is based on Rev. William Carus Wilson (1791–1859), the Evangelical minister who ran the school.
- Charlotte Brontë
- 1847
Both Gateshead and Lowood work as models of Victorian society, but Brocklehurst in particular represents a form of religious doctrine that Jane instinctively rejects. His faith is all hell-fire and brimstone, he oppresses the children under his care with an extreme Evangelical zeal.
Mr. Brocklehurst’s negligence and oppression of these young girls has created a new challenge towards Jane’s equality because Brocklehurst makes it shameful to be a true individual.
Mr Brocklehurst is the superintendent of Lowood School. During the novel, he: is invited to Gateshead Hall by Mrs Reed to meet Jane and arrange for her to become a pupil at his school.
Expert Answers. Mr. Brocklehurst is one of the villains of the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. He is the head of Lowood, a charity boarding school Jane attends, and a strict evangelical.
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After Mr. Brocklehurst’s negligent treatment of the girls at Lowood is found to be one of the causes of the typhus epidemic, a new group of overseers is brought in to run the school. Conditions improve dramatically for the young girls, and Jane excels in her studies for the next six years.
