JANE EYRE

JANE EYRE

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Characters

Jane Eyre

The protagonist and narrator of the novel, Jane is an intelligent, honest, plain-featured young girl forced to contend with oppression, inequality, and hardship. Although she meets with a series of individuals who threaten her autonomy, Jane repeatedly succeeds at asserting herself and maintains her principles of justice, human dignity, and morality. She also values intellectual and emotional fulfillment. Her strong belief in gender and social equality challenges the Victorian prejudices against women and the poor.

Edward Rochester

Jane’s employer and the master of Thornfield, Rochester is a wealthy, passionate man with a dark secret that provides much of the novel’s suspense. Rochester is unconventional, ready to set aside polite manners, propriety, and consideration of social class in order to interact with Jane frankly and directly. He is rash and impetuous and has spent much of his adult life roaming about Europe in an attempt to avoid the consequences of his youthful indiscretions. His problems are partly the result of his own recklessness, but he is a sympathetic figure because he has suffered for so long as a result of his early marriage to Bertha.

St. John Rivers

Along with his sisters, Mary and Diana, St. John (pronounced “Sinjin”) serves as Jane’s benefactor after she runs away from Thornfield, giving her food and shelter. The minister at Morton, St. John is cold, reserved, and often controlling in his interactions with others. Because he is entirely alienated from his feelings and devoted solely to an austere ambition, St. John serves as a foil to Edward Rochester.

Mrs. Reed

Esto es un párrafo listo para contener creatividad, experiencias e historias geniales.Mrs. Reed is Jane’s cruel aunt, who raises her at Gateshead Hall until Jane is sent away to school at age ten. Later in her life, Jane attempts reconciliation with her aunt, but the old woman continues to resent her because her husband had always loved Jane more than his own children.

Uncle Reed

Esto es un párrafo listo para contener creatividad, experiencias e historias geniales.Uncle Reed is Mrs. Reed’s late husband. In her childhood, Jane believes that she feels the presence of his ghost. Because he was always fond of Jane and her mother (his sister), Uncle Reed made his wife promise that she would raise Jane as her own child. It is a promise that Mrs. Reed does not keep.

Plot

Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed, her aunt, but not a standard aunt, she was a very cruel aunt. Before sometime in the worst conditions. Mr. Lloyd, suggests to Mrs. Reed that Jane can be sent away to school. To Jane’s delight, Mrs. Reed concurs. Once at the Lowood School, Jane finds that her life is far from she expected. The school’s headmaster is Mr. Brocklehurst, a cruel and abusive man. At Lowood School, Jane met a young girl named,Helen Burns, who finally became really good friends. A massive typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood School, and Helen dies of consumption. The epidemic also results in the departure of Mr. Brocklehurst by attracting attention to the insalubrious conditions at Lowood. After a group of more sympathetic gentlemen takes Brocklehurst’s place,unexpectedly, Jane’s life was so much better than ever before. She spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher.

After teaching for two years, Jane looked for new experiences. She accepts to be a governess at a manor called Thornfield, where she teaches a French girl named Adèle. There, she meets a man named Rochester, who Jane finds herself falling in love. But not everything was fantastic, when Jane and Mr. Rochester prepare to exchange their vows, Mason told Jane that Rochester already had a wife. Mason introduces himself as the brother of that wife.

Mr. Mason testifies that his sister married Rochester when he was a young man in Jamaica, and she was still alive. Rochester explains that the woman that he married has gone mad. He takes the wedding party back to Thornfield, where they witness her growling like an animal. Rochester keeps her hidden and pays a maid to keep his wife under control. Knowing that it is impossible for her to be with Rochester, Jane flees Thornfield.

Jane is forced to sleep outdoors and beg for food. At last, three siblings take her in. And Jane quickly becomes friends with them. One of them finds Jane a job teaching at a charity school. He surprises her one day by declaring that her uncle, John Eyre, has died and left her a large fortune: 20,000 pounds. When Jane asks how he received this news, he shocks her by declaring that her uncle was also his uncle.

His cousin decides to travel to India as a missionary, and he ask Jane to accompany him as his wife. Jane agrees to go to India but refuses to marry her cousin because she does not love him. His cousin pressures her to reconsider, and she nearly gives in. However, she realizes that she cannot abandon forever the man she truly loves.

Jane immediately hurries back to Thornfield and finds that it has been burned to the ground the woman who married Rochester, who lost her life in the fire. Rochester saved the servants but lost his eyesight and one of his hands. Jane travels on to Rochester’s new residence, Ferndean, where he lives with two servants named John and Mary. At Ferndean, Rochester and Jane rebuild their relationship and soon marry.

Charlotte Bronte

Biography

Born on April 21, 1816, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, Charlotte Brontë worked as a teacher and governess before collaborating on a book of poetry with her two sisters, Emily and Anne, who were writers as well. In 1847, Brontë published the semi autobiographical novel Jane Eyre, which was a hit and would become a literary classic. She died on March 31, 1855, in Haworth, Yorkshire, England.

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