Jane Eyre hinges on the bond and love that exist between family relationships. Family relationships sets the novel in motion and can be seen as the main motivator to the protagonist: Jane Eyre. From Gateshead, to Lowood and then to Thornfield, Jane searches for one thing: family. Mr. and Mrs. Reed are Jane’s surrogate parents and it’s on theses grounds that family relationships are initially explored in the novel. Jane’s parents died from typhus and she lives with the Reeds in Gateshead. In the Victorian Era and even in the modern world, the role of the mother consists of nurture, care and love for their children. However, readers find that Mrs. Reed on the contrary is abusive and awful towards Jane. She forcibly locks Jane in the daunting Red Room. The room is decorated with mainly in “red” and a little “white” and this is symbolic of Jane’s innocence meeting the intense bitter emotions that comes with an unpleasant life. This is affirmed by the whirlwind of negative emotions Jane suffers in there. Her repetition of “why?” In response to her awful situation and the fact that she considers “never eating or drinking” shows her depressed and suicidal mental state. Moreover, Mrs. Reed doesn’t care for and treats her with great contempt. This is shown by the fact that Jane is said to be “physically inferior” to Eliza, John and Georgiana which shows the possible maltreatment Jane endured. This is again further highlighted by the preferential treatment Mrs. Reed shows in that she calls “an apothecary” to treat Jane and the servant’s whiles she employs a physician to treat herself and her children. Mr. Reed can be viewed as Jane’s surrogate father. However, he dies when Jane is really young and Jane remarks that “if he was alive, he would have treated her with kindness and love”. His position is taken up by John Reed the breadwinner and the only man of the house. However, John Reed like his mother is abusive and tyrannical towards Jane. John uses his authority as breadwinner:” all the house belongs to me, or will do in a few years” and his physical superiority as a “large and stout” boy to bully and punish Jane. He is said to “insp