Describe The Relationship Between Georgiaa And Elizaia In Jane Eyre

The gothic novel, Jane Eyre, focuses on the life of a young, orphaned girl, who learns to balance her precarious station in 19th century England- a society whose culture is dictated by rigid social castes and protocols. She grows up in household of her Aunt, Mrs Reed, after the death of her parents, where she experiences neglect and estrangement until she moves to a charity school at the age of ten. The novel briefly narrates the story of her cousins, Georgiana and Eliza Reed, through brief snapshots of their childhood through Jane’s eyes, and later in life as young adults after the death of their mother and brother. The reader is introduced to the two characters as adults when Jane returns to Gateshead at the request of her ill Aunt, where …show more content…
Georgiana and Eliza are both cold on the isnide, and chose to ignore the depths of their emotions, separating themselves from their family to avoid heartache. In the wake of her mother’s death, Eliza appears cold, her lack of grief was described by Bronte in her immediate reaction, “a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant: as it passed away she turned and left the room, and so did I. Neither of us had dropped a tear.” () Eliza and Georgiana suffered incredible losses, however, instead of mourning they chose to consume themselves in their outside lives. After her brother’s death, instead of portraying her emotions to Jane, she conveys her desire to visit her uncle in London, caring more about the social season than the death of the two people closest to her. Eliza reacts similarly to the news, allowing herself to be consumed by her scheduling and devotion to the church, a mere two weeks later, she moves to France to become a nun. The two sisters allow themselves to be cold and distance themselves from their family to avoid pain. While they may lead different lives outwardly, those lives are merely masks that Georgiana and Eliza hide behind so that they can escape from any