Can't bury these tales: Canterbury Tales & Jane Eyre

Writes often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of the gender, race, class, or creed. Explain how the author uses various literary devices (such as irony, characterization, and figurative language) to provide social commentary, OR how the character's alienation reveals the surrounding society's assumptions and moral values.   
     I would like to start this blog post with a quick note on the passage: Congratulations Charlotte Bronte, you have made me detest Mr.Brocklehurst in 2684 words. Although, with a name like Brocklehurst, he probably did have an evil disposition. 
      
     Anyhow, the fact that anyone would alienate children like that is pretty horrible. I mean, Mr.Bratwurst is telling some small children that their natural hair makes them a bad person! I'm not even exaggerating like:

"Naturally! Yes, but we are not to conform to nature; I wish these girls to be the children of Grace: and why that abundance? I have again and again intimated that I desire the hair to be arranged closely modestly, plainly. Miss Temple, that girl's hair must be cut off entirely

     It feels like a headline we'd see from the Onion ("Beware:Scientist discover link between curls and sins"). Telling kids that is enough to land them in therapy. I really want to say that this makes society and their morals seem pretty horrible, especially because these are the values of a guy who is running what seems to be an orphanage but I've found that now a days we're still telling kids that they have to change themselves to protect a religion that may or may not be theirs.

     In addition to telling kids that their appearance makes them less holy, Mr. Hes-the-worst, he tells Jane to stand on a stool for a fair amount of time (reminiscent of the punishment Hosking told us about that they used in WWI for deserting soldiers) because he's decided that shes already following the devil and that all other children and teachers should shun her. Because those are two things God and Jesus were for: people judging other people and not forgiving and trying to help people.

    This leads me to the conclusion that people have been using their religion incredibly hypocritically for a long time. The use of a religious text, especially one that is so clear on everyone respecting each other, to excuse their crappy behavior is unacceptable.