Mr. BrockleWORST (#5) Elena Rehberg Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a novel set in England that closely depicts ideas that arose in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Within chapter seven of Bronte's text, she is describing the encounters between Mr. Brocklehurst and Miss Temple and subliminally commenting on society while doing so. The author of Jane Eyre , Charlotte Bronte, uses irony in describing Mr. Brocklehurst's family in the second passage. She does this within Mr. Brocklehurst's dialogue as he says with outrage, "And why has she, or any other, curled hair? Why, in defiance of every precept and principle of this house, does she conform to the world so openly - here in an evangelical, charitable establishment - as to wear her hair one mass of curls?" (Bronte). This is ironic because he claims to be a religious man with a home revolving around Christianity, yet does not find it to be acceptable that Julia Severn has curly hair, yet it is n...