Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. If you're referring to the daughter that he had with Jane Eyre, even though I'm not sure it's female. Mr. Brocklehurst was here interrupted: three other visitors, ladies, now entered the room. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre. "Fetch that stool," said Mr. Brocklehurst, pointing to a very high one from which a monitor had just risen: it was brought. So Mr. Brocklehurst is a hypocrite in addition to being nasty. List three examples of supernatural elements. Mr Brocklehurst had a daughter?! Meantime, Mr. Brocklehurst, standing on the hearth with his hands behind his back, majestically surveyed the whole school. Based on what Mrs. Reed has told him, Mr. Brocklehurst labels Jane a liar in front of her schoolmates and orders her to stand on a stool for hours on her first day of attendance. Mr. Brocklehurst revealed his coldness because the book was meant to frighten Jane. What did Mr. Brocklehurst reveal about his character by giving Jane the book to read, Child's Guide. As he describes them, though, it becomes clear that his own daughter lives in spoiled luxury—she has a silk gown. They ought to have come a little sooner to have heard his lecture on dress, for they were splendidly attired in velvet, silk, and furs. Start studying Jane Eyre. And I was placed there, by whom I don't know: I was in no condition to note particulars: I was only aware that they had hoisted me up to the height of Mr. Brocklehurst's nose, that he was within a yard of me, and that a spread of shot orange and purple silk pelisse, and a cloud of silvery plumage extended and waved below me. Mr. Brocklehurst: The clergyman, director, and treasurer of Lowood School, whose maltreatment of the pupils is eventually exposed. She is comforted and befriended by another student, Helen Burns (Elizabeth Taylor). Mr. Brocklehurst is only too happy to oblige; he loves keeping the girls at the school "quiet and plain" (1.4.63). sorry i have not read that book for a very long time. A religious traditionalist, he advocates for his charges the most harsh, plain, and disciplined possible lifestyle, but not, hypocritically, for himself and his own family.