Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

By: Francisco González

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About the author

About the book

Main Characters

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About the book

This is a book written by English writer Charlotte Brontë published in 1847. It is a Bildungsroman(a literary genre that focused on the moral growth of the protagonist from his infance to his adulthood), which follows the experiences of this heroine, Jane Eyre, and tells us all the good and bad things that happened to her during her lifetime, until her adulthood.

Main Characters

Mr Rochester Serious looking, rude and gruff man twice Jane's age. At first he was Jane's master, but in the end he falls in love with her, when Jane run away from Thornfield Hall he almost goes mad and he misses her a lot.

Jane Eyre She is a young woman who since childhood has suffered after the death of her parents, she went to Lowood school where she met her first friend, Helen Burns, she also worked there. A few years later she went out of this school and she searched for a job as governess, she found a job in Thornfield Hall as a governess of Adèle, here she also met her love, Mr Rochester.

St. John Rivers Is cold, hard-hearted, and repressed. He is very good looking and intelligent. His dream is to be a missionary in the Indies. He has two sisters Diana and Mary.

Mrs Reed She is Jane Eyre's aunt, is a selfish and insensitive woman who has three children: John, Eliza and Georgiana. They hated Jane and they always punished her for all that she did.

Helen Burns Jane's friend at Lowood school, she is an intelligent and loving girl. She had a great religious faith.

Adèle She is the supposed daughter of Mr Rochester and a French dancer. Mr Rochester brings her to England when her mother went to Italy and abandoned her. She is Jane Eyre's pupil at Thornfield Hall.

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Lowood School

Thornfield Hall

Morton

Is Mrs Reed's house, Jane spent almost all her childhood there.

Jane worked here as the governess of Adèle, and here she also fell in love with Mr Rochester

The boarding school where Jane got her education and where she met her first friend, she also spent there several years of her life.

Here Jane lived with St John and his sisters, Diana and Mary. He had good luck to find this place when she had nothing.

About the author

Charlotte Brontë

She was born on 21st April 1816 and died on 31st March 1855, and she was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. Both of her sisters were writers too. She had two important works, Jane Eyre and Villette. We can say that she was inspired by her own life to write Jane Eyre, because there are a lot of similitaries between them, for example she was sent to a school when her mother died, or that she also became a teacher and governess like Jane Eyre.

Emily and Anne Brontë

They were two sister that arrived to adulthood of Charlotte Brontë. They were both writers and poets like Charlotte, for this now we say that they are members of the Brontë Literary Family. Emily and Anne didn't have as much fame as her sister Charlotte, although they have a notable work , Emily is best known for her novel "Wuthering Heights" and Anne is best known for her novel "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Emily died on 19 December 1848 and Anne died on 28 May 1849, both probably died of tuberculosis.

In my opinion Jane Eyre is a really good and interesting book, because we have at all moment the curiosity and interest in learning what will happen next to Jane, and I think that almost anybody can imagine how this story finished. I reckon that the best part is the ending because it is the happy ending that Jane deserves. And it is a very good love history. Altough I don't like this literary genre so much, I liked this love story, so I recommend to read this book to everybody. Even if you don't like love histories or romantic histories, like me, this book will impress you so much.

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