Mr Brockelhurst says this to the girls at Lowood to justify his sadistic policies
“My mission is to mortify these girls”
Consonance
“Poverty looks grim…”
“Poverty looks grim to grown people… To me, poverty was synonymous with degradation”
Metaphor: poverty looks grim
Shows how the upper classes’ prejudice of poverty infects the minds of vulnerable children
Jane - who is poor and has nothing - hates poverty because of the Reeds family