Robert Brocklehurst

aliases

Mr. Brocklehurst, Rev. Brocklehurst

Mr. Brocklehurst is in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë the clergyman headmaster and treasurer of Lowood School, whose maltreatment of the students is eventually exposed. He is likened frequently to "a black pillar." A religious fundamentalist, he advocates for his charges the most stoic and ascetic lifestyles -- but not, hypocritically, for himself or for his family. His sermons blaze with hellfire.…more

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