What I find most intriguing about Helen's death is the means of her death. If she had been kept in better health, fed more often, perhaps, given more than what Mr. Brocklehurst deemed necessary, it is very possible that she wouldn't have developed tuberculosis. Yet, ironically, Helen had been exactly what Mr. Brocklehurst wanted to create within his institution: a plain girl with deep Christianity, so deep with a craving to die and enter her, "last home." What our villain was creating, abundant with morality and the eager need to be disciplined, he was also killing with the exact opposite of his creed. Clean clothes were too expensive, sleep hardly necessary for growing children, cruel punishments a privilege, and the hierarchy of class war the true basis of his ideology. My accusation speaks for itself on page 53, in which Mr. Brocklehurst explains his greedy position to Miss Temple: "Should any little accidental disappointment of the appetite occur, such as the spoiling of a meal, the under of the over dressing of a dish, the incident ought not to be neutralised by replacing with something more delicate the comfort lost, thus pampering the body and obviating the aim of this institution; it ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of porary privation." Naturally, moments later, Mr. Brocklehurst's wife and daughters came into Miss Temple's office, wearing the fanciest of outfits, suggesting anything but modest piety.