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A 5 page paper which examines how Bronte’s attitude towards religion is developed in the Preface and in the first one-hundred pages of the text, and also includes character analyses of Mr. Brocklehurst and Helen Burns. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to seriously question Christian teachings when she was sent as a child to a religious charity school following the death of her mother. The harrowing combination of brutal discipline
and squalid living conditions left an indelible imprint on Charlotte Brontes emotional psyche, and fostered the ambivalent attitudes toward religion that would remain with her for the rest of her
life. Art would imitate life in Brontes 1847 novel, Jane Eyre, in which the orphaned protagonist is sent to Mr. Brocklehursts Lowood School, and have experiences that would eerily
parallel those of the author. Anticipating savage Victorian criticism of her controversial religious views, Bronte observed in her novels preface, "Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To
attack the first it not to assail the last... appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not
be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ... The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered... It may hate him who dares to scrutinize and expose -- to
raise the gilding and show the base metal under it -- to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him" (xi-xii).
Charlotte Bronte believed that religious attitudes fell into two distinct categories - the martyred believer, who believed that suffering was an essential component of Christian virtue and should never
be questioned; and the hypocrite, who wished to appear benevolent and charitable for the sake of social appearances, but who was, in reality self-serving and opportunistic. The Lowood School
was just as its name implies - low in terms of its failure to practice the moral principles it so self-righteously preached. In his analysis of Jane Eyre, author
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