Chapter Two

Okay, I've finished chapter two. After I finished blogging about chapter one, I realized that it took a really long time to write it, and that it was extremely long. Therefore, I decided that I really need to condense what I write, so that people don't lose interest too quickly.
So here is my analysis of chapter two:
Jane has just been sent to the red-room by Mrs. Reed. At first, we have no idea what the significance of this room is, but we find out soon enough. This chapter talks about the experience Jane has in the room.
At first, in this chapter, Jane puts up a huge fight on the way to the red-room. She is called all sorts of names by Bessie and Abbott, and then she is belittled. She is told that John Reed is "her master" and that she is "less than a servant"¹ . This only serves to make Jane more irate and when she won't sit still in the red-room, the maids threaten to tie her up in order to make her sit still.
What a cruel situation to place a NINE YEAR OLD in. I can scarcely believe how badly Jane is treated.
Once she finally sits still in the room, she observes her surroundings. The room is freezing, and she soon "grew...cold as a stone."²  
What a way to ensure that a small child catches cold.
While Jane is stuck in the red-room, she muses about the fact that, while she has been treated horribly for her entire life, she knew from experience as a very young child what the people in the household thought of her, and how they would most likely treat her. Yet she can't help but wonder why exactly she is treated this way. What did she do to deserve her fate?
Jane is so miserable trapped in the red-room that she contemplates running away. She even goes so far as to consider starving herself to death just to evade her misery.

• How must it be to feel so alone and miserable and mistreated that you would consider dying that way?

Jane now recognizes the fact that if she were less reserved Mrs. Reed would most likely treat her better. And yet, she also realizes that if Mr. Reed hadn't died, he most definitely would treat her well, and that would nearly force Mrs. Reed to do the same. 

• If Mrs. Reed loved her husband as much as she said she did, why did she not honor his dying wish?

Now Jane remembers something she heard someone say once: that a spirit of a deceased person may return if their dying wishes aren't fulfilled. She immediately is frightened, and thinks she sees Mr. Reed's ghost. In a panic, she pounds furiously on the door, and the maids rush in. Mrs. Reed, unsympathetic forces her to stay in the room. Jane, so overcome with anxiety, passes out.

In order to show you a bit of what this may have been like, I looked up a video clip of what happened in this scene:

Okay, that's everything for this chapter. Tune in for chapter three.

Footnotes:
1. Jane Eyre, Chapter Two, page 7, top of the page.
2. Jane Eyre, Chapter Two, page 11, bottom of last paragraph.