ere punctual habits would be permanently secured from disturbance, and place safe barriers between herself and a frivolous world." (Bronte 235 ) Eliza is going to join a nunnery and follow the Roman Catholic dogmas. Eliza feels that the structure of the Catholic religion is "the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order" (Bronte 241). Yet even with her religious structure, Eliza lacks the true compassionate spirit of Christianity. She has little patience even when it comes to her sister. Eliza conveys the feeling that having such a rigid schedule made one morally superior and no one could have considered her morally lax. Yet it is through these ritualistic attitudes that Bronte portrays Eliza as a morally lazy Christian. Eliza believes th
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