JANE EYRE

JANE EYRE

María Béjar Rodríguez

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

LOGO AQUÍ

index

1- MAIN CHARACTERS

6- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

5- PERSONAL OPINION

4- SETTING

3- PLOT

2- SECONDARY CHARACTERS

She is the main character and and narrator of the novel. Jane is an intelligent, honest, plain young girl. About her parents, a poor vicar and a rich man's daughter fell in love, they got married against the advice of her family; 2 years later the couple were both dead and their baby was brought up by Mrs Reed of Gateshead. Jane was treated quite bad, she was so unhappy and by the age of 10, she was sent to Lowood school, where later she became a teacher and then, she became a governess in the house of Rochester. Jane falls in love with Rochester, she decides to get away from him. What's more, when his uncle Mr Eyre of Madeira dies, she inherits all his property, so she became a rich and independent woman. However, she decides to share her inheritance with her cousins (St John, Mary and Diana Rivers), In the end, she goes back and marries Edward, who is blind because of the fire who produced Bertha at Thornfield. Then, they had a child with his parent's black eyes and Rochester's sight began to return in one eye.

main characters

Jane Eyre

He is Jane's master of Thornfield. Rochester is a wealthy, passionate man. He met Jane for the first time one evening when Jane was walking to Hay and Mr Rochester hurt his feet because of the fall of his horse on the ice. He is seen as a peculiar man, with dark eyes. Furthermore, he has spent almost all his adult life travelling in Europe. In France, he got known Celine, an opera dancer who was Rochester's mistress. She has a daugther, who is named Adèle; when Adèle is abandonned by her mother, Rochester gave her back to England as it is said he is her father. He falls in love with Jane, however he can't marry her because he got married with Bertha, who is mad and is closed in the top floor of Thornfield.

main characters

Edward Rochester

She is the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall. She is a little old lady, dressed in black and seemed glad when Jane started working at Thornfield as the governess of Adèle as she has someone else to talk to apart from the servants.He is a vicar, who found Jane ill in front of his house's door. He offered him to stay there and get over. He also finds out that Jane was his cousin and his story. Moreover, he offered her work in a school for poor children and in the end, he ask Jane to marry him and acompañar him to the India as the missionary's wife, although she refuses.

secondary characters

Sto. John

Mrs Fairfax

She is Jane's aunt, who is so cruel with her and sent her away to Lowood school at the age of 10. She was asked by his husband to take care of Jane when he dies. In the end, Mrs. Reed ask her niece to see her in her late days before die.She is the maid at Gateshead. Bessie is the only person who treats sometimes Jane kindly. Later in the story, she marries Robert Leaven, the Reeds' coachman. They had three young children, who they were delighted with.

secondary characters

Bessie Lee

Mrs. Reed

Georgina is Jane's cousin. She was pretty although she was very fat and wore extremely fashionable clothes. Eliza is Jane's another cousin. At the end, she changed and was very tall and thin , with a sour face and wore plain clothes. John Reed is Jane's cousin, Mrs. Reed's son. During Jane's childhood he treats her with such cruelty. When he dies, his mother gets ill.

secondary characters

John Reed

Georgina and Eliza Reed

Helen Burns is the closest friend of Jane at the Lowood school. She isn't afraid of the death, she attemps to go to the heaven. Mr. Brocklehurst is the master of Lowood school. He doesn't support the pupil's lifestyle to be luxurious, he wants them to live a hard life as Christ. Maria Temple is a kind teacher at Lowood school. When Jane is accusated in front of all her partners by Mrs. Reed, Maria helps her.

secondary characters

Mr. Brocklehurst

Helen Burns

Maria Temple

Bertha Mason is Rochester's wife. Bertha is on the top of the house locked in a secreed room. She is like an animal, not a person and is guarded by Grace Poole, who allow Bertha escape when she drinks. This woman tried to burn Rochester in his own bedroom, and what's more, in the end of the story, she is the person who burns down Thornfield.Richard Mason is Bertha's brother. He is injured by his sister during a visit to Thornfield and when Rochester goes to bring a doctor, Jane stays taking care of him. Moreover, when Jane and Rochester were to get married, Richard stop the wedding and reveal the truth of Rochester and Bertha's marriage.

secondary characters

Richard Mason

Bertha Mason

Mr. Briggs is John Eyre’s attorney. After John Eyre’s death, Briggs searches for Jane in order to give her her inheritance. Rosamond Oliver is the person who gives money to the school in Morton where Jane works. She is in love with St. John. Uncle Reed is Mrs. Reed’s late husband. When Jane is enclosed at the Red room, she believes that she feels the presence of his ghost. Uncle Reed made his wife promise that she would raise Jane as her own child.

secondary characters

Rosamond Oliver

Mr. Briggs

Uncle Reed

Mr. Lloyd is the man who suggests sending away to school Jane. Grace Poole is Bertha's keeper, she has a peculiar laugter. Adèle Varens is Jane's pupil. Rochester brought her to Thornfield after her mother, Celine, abandoned her. Miss Scatcherd is a teacher at Lowood school, who behaves cruelly with Helen.

secondary characters

Grace Poole

Mr. Lloyd

Miss Scatcherd

Adèle Varens

plot

ane is an orphan girl, who is growing up with her cousins and her aunt in such cruel conditions. At the age of 10, she is sent to Lowood School, where she spends several years of her life. Finally, she became a teacher and one day, she decides to work as a governess. She is employed at Thornfield teaching Adèle. One evening, she helps a man who hurts his feet when his horse slip on the ice. That man turns out to be the master of Thornfield Hall. Jane and Mr. Rochester fall down in love and the day of their wedding, Jane finds out that Bertha, the woman who is locked at the top of the house, is his wife. So she decides run away from Thornfield and when she is near to die, St. John provides her accommodation. Instead of telling them who she was, she tells them she is Jane Elliott. She starts working at a school with poor children in Morton. Then, one day she learns that she has inherited a fortune from his uncle John Eyre of Madeira, and what's more, that the siblings Rivers are her cousins, so Jane shares her fortune with them.

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The vicar St. John is going to go to the India as a missionary and asks Jane to go with him as his wife. However, she refuses and she hears Rochester's voice calling her. So she goes back to Thornfield and finds out that it has been burned down by Bertha, who died. Nonetheless, Jane doesn't lost hope and at Ferndean Manor talks with Edward, who has lost his sight owing to saving all the servants of the fire. Finally they get married and then he gets his sight back.

setting

Ferndean Manor

during Jane's childhood.

Gateshead

Morton

Thornfield

Lowood school

with the Rivers family, where she also works as a teacher at a poor school.

where she works as Adèle's governess and falls in love with her master, Edward Rochester.

where she makes friends and get education, and become a teacher as well.

where they meet again.

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personal opinion

Speaking for myself, Jane Eyre is a book extremely flawless. It is unable stop reading, that attractive story involves you until the point you have to finish the book. It is a cruel and miserable story, with moments of passion and love, which have such a pleasant sensation. What's more, I'd like to point out the personal improvement and values of the main character, Jane.

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about the author

She was born in Yorkshire, England on 1816. When her mother died, her aunt helped his father raise her and her siblings. Charlotte and three of her sisters were sent to a school for clergymen’s daughters. There, two of her sisters died because of tuberculosis, so she and her sister Emily were sent home. Some time later, Charlotte went to another school, Roe Head School, in England, where she became a teacher although sever years later she decided to become a governess. Soon she decided to leave her job and start her own school, which was unsuccessful. Then, Charlotte suggested that she, Anne, and Emily collaborate on a book of poems.

Charlotte Brontë

In 1847, Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, a critique of Victorian assumptions about gender and social class, which became one of the most successful novels of its era, both critically and commercially.

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