¨First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses. A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction. A ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, devouring, would have been a meet emblem of my mind when I accused and menaced Mrs. Reed: the same ridge, black and blasted after the flames are dead, would have represented as meetly my subsequent condition, when half-an-hour's silence and reflection had shown me the madness of my conduct, and the dreariness of my hated and hating position.¨ (31)
Jane struggles with her internal conflict as she tries to decipher her different emotions about her actions. Her outburst against Mrs. Reed made her feel momentarily triumphant, but she then becomes guilty and ashamed of what she did.
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Helen explains the Christian values the Lowood girls must live. Jane is confused, as she sees those values as undermining justice. This is an external conflict of person versus society, as Jane opposes her society´s values.
¨I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.¨
¨Heathens and savage tribes hold that doctrine, but Christians and civilized nations disown it.¨
¨How? I don´t understand. ´ (50)
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