A character in Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The harsh, hypocritical clergyman who runs Lowood School with pious cruelty and publicly humiliates Jane.
Also known as: Robert Brocklehurst
Inside the story
Mr. Brocklehurst is the clergyman who runs Lowood School, where Jane Eyre is sent as a pupil. He presents himself as a strict guardian of piety and discipline, but governs the girls with harshness and hypocrisy, publicly humiliating Jane before the school.
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