#Health #and #Sickness

Andrea Angulo Walker Coufal Koshy Thomas Faher Aboshady #Health #and #Sickness AY MRS. MUNNO!

What is Health and Sickness? #TBH Health- soundness of body or mind; freedom from disease or ailment: to have one's health; to lose one's health. Sickness- a disordered, weakened, or unsound condition SAT tomorrow? #FWP

#InContext • In Jain Eyre, sickness is very prevalent in this book, usually resulting in death. • The medicine in the late 1800s was not great, they lacked a lot of the knowledge and technology we have today.

Maladies in Jane Eyre: Typhus • Typhus outbreak at Lowood Institution • Typhus- An infectious disease caused by rickettsiae, characterized by a purple rash, headaches, fever, and usually delirium. • “ That forest dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence; which, quickening with the quickening spring, crept into the Orphan asylum, breathed typhus through its crowded schoolroom and dormitory, ere May arrived, transformed the seminary into a hospital” (Eyre 78). • #Ermahgerd

Maladies in Jane Eyre: Blindness #DondeEstas • Rochester’s incident • Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors. • “And reader, do you think I feared him in his blind ferocity?-if you do, you little know me” (Eyre 469). • http://www.mahalo.com/jane-eyre-quotes/ • (2:37-3:09)

Maladies in Jane Eyre: Insanity • Bertha Mason’s mental condition • Insanity- relatively permanent disorder of the mind; state or condition of being insane • “One never knows what she has, sir: she is so cunning it is not in mortal discretion to fathom her craft” (Eyre 316). • Bertha’s homicidal accident is admittedly extreme. The fact that she crawls around on all fours making animalistic noises and laughing in a creepy way also suggests that her sanity is utterly destroyed. #Halloween2011

Maladies in Jane Eyre: Death #YOLO • John Reed’s suicide • Suicide-The act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself. • “He squandered his fortune and has committed suicide” (Eyre 357). • As a child, John is a bully, pushing Jane around and trying to keep her from enjoying herself as an adult. John Reed is totes a lard. All he does is spend money, gamble, get into debt and fail out of college which makes his suicide unsurprising.

Effect of Helen’s Death on Jane Eyre #BFFs Helen and her view of Christianity become very significant to Jane as she grows into adulthood. Helen argued for turning the other cheek because of the joys that await in heaven. Although Jane does not wholly agree with Helen’s views, particularly in the face of the torments at Lowood, she admires Helen's strength of faith and fears her death.

Effect of Rochester’s Condition #AsLongAsYouLoveME “To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be” (Eyre 485). AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW ♥ Although Rochester suffered from blindness and a hand injury after the incident at Thornfield, Jane didn’t hesitate to say “I DO” (awwwwww!) But really, she loved him through his ugliness.

Effect of Uncle John Mason #ADollaMakesMeHolla John’s death was very positive for Jane. She inherited 20,000 dollars but more importantly she discovered that she has family which means she is not completely alone in her life. SARA BROWN and ANDREA ANGULO

#Conclusion Characters sicken and die without causing their illness themselves, like Helen Burns and Mrs. Reed. There are other moments of affliction that don’t result in death: Mr. Rochester’s blindness, Mason’s wound, Jane’s fever after she runs away from Rochester. These sicknesses allowed for characters to develop and show both the strengths and weaknesses in each of them.

Citations and Sources http://www.mahalo.com/jane-eyre-quotes http://dictionary.reference.com/ http://www.merriam-webster.com/ http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/

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