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Throughout the course of life the places where people live and the experiences gathered there serve to develop their characters. As Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre unfolds through many scenes the character’s paths of life lead them to different places where they encounter new experiences and deal with their circumstances in different ways. The environment surrounding a person can influence his or her life in such a way that it creates a positive effect on his character. Harsh institutions provide the rough circumstances needed to refine an individual’s character. Lowood Boarding School contains the experience needed to produce positive refinement in its inhabitants. As Jane Eyre studies at Lowood, extreme physical deprivation confronts her. “Despite terrible deprivation, however, Jane is given something at Lowood gar more prescious than the food and clothing she had at Gateshead: a sense of her own worth”(Berg 44). Living in a “crowded schoolroom and dormitory” with clothing “insufficient to protect [them] from the severe cold” adds to the “semi-starvation and neglected colds” that torture the students (Brontë 69,52). These harsh conditions force Jane either to withstand the institutional exper