Jane Eyre

To set the stage in “Jane Eyre” our Protagonist, Jane Eyre is deceived by Mr.Rochester, one of the antagonists in order to “protect” his love, Jane. Mr. Rochester’s deception begins

Furthermore, the only person that cared about her in the house was a servant named Bessie. Jane had a fight with her cousin John Reed, as a method of torture; Jane got locked up in the same room that her uncle died. And then, Jane is sent to school and notices that her teacher is a cruel man. She meets a girl named Helen Burns that dies very ill because of an epidemic that got to the school. After that, she goes to another school to teach and meets her employee named Rochester which she falls in love with and he proposed to marry her. In the weeding, everyone finds out that Rochester was married to another woman in Jamaica. Next, Jane starts to beg for food and lives on the streets and is offers a home named Mary Diana and St John. They find Jane a job and teaching a charity home. Following that, her uncle John Eyre died and left her a 20,000 pounds and Jane is shocked. St. John decides to travel to India and invites Jane to go with him as his wife, Jane said no because she loved another man and that man was Rochester. Jane reunites with Rochester and form a family in a happy marriage. The author style in this story is in an educative way and in third person. The impact that this novel does to the period is that you could find a better family even though you had a bad

Jane Eyre is an extraordinary orphan girl who is treated horribly by her aunt Mrs. Reed and her children. She is sent away to a girl’s boarding school called Lowood. She studies there for a total of six years and graduates to teach at the same school for two years. After two years of teaching, she leaves Lowood to go looking for another job, at 19. She meets Mrs. Fairfax who decides to give her the job as a governess at Thornfield Hall. She eventually falls in love with Mr. Rochester, the master of Thornfield. She is happy being a governess to Adele and being in love with Mr. Rochester. Mr. Rochester then decides to propose to her: However, Mr. Rochester has a deep dark secret; one that stops the marriage and restricts them from being together forever. She runs away and lives a new life with a new family, St. John and his two sisters. St. John finds out that Jane Eyre is a beneficiary of her uncle’s wealth and insists that she marry him. She refuses because she does not love him and runs away. She goes back to Thornfield only to find that Mr. Rochester’s circumstances have changed for the worse.

Jane Eyre is a coming of age story following a young woman and her journey of self-growth. At the start of the novel Jane is living with her aunt and three cousins. They continuously abuse her, treating her like a stranger rather than a family member. At the age of ten Jane leaves her aunt's house and attends boarding school. It is at this school where she learns lessons of forgiveness and hope from a meek young woman named Helen Burns. Subsequently studying and teaching at the school for eight years Jane decides to become a governess at the mysterious Thornfield mansion. She falls in love with the owner of Thornfield and the two make plans to marry. Nonetheless on the day of there wedding Jane discovers that Mr. Rochester is already married and that he keeps his insane wife Bertha trapped away in the attic of Thornfield. Devastated by this information, Jane flees Thornfield and nearly dies from cold and starvation. Soon after she is taken in by the Rivers, two sisters and one brother. The passing of Jane's uncle reveals that she and the Rivers are cousins. It is also revealed that this uncle has left Jane all his fortune. This in turn leaves Jane extremely wealthy. Her cousin St. John Rivers ask Jane for his hand in marriage. However Jane comes to the conclusion that she still loves Mr. Rochester. After declining St. John's proposal Jane journeys back to Thornfield. When she arrives at Thornfield Jane discovers the mysterious mansion in burnt ruins. It is revealed that the

A gothic novel is defined as an English genre of fiction, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudo-medieval setting. Gothic novels have been present for many centuries and to this day, authors write about basic gothic aspects that are common throughout all gothic novels. In the novel, Jane Eyre, the author, Charlotte Brontë, writes a gothic story about the life of a plain, intelligent woman, who encounters horrors her entire life. This novel possess all the elements confirming itself as a gothic novel: supernatural events, extreme fear, a Byronic hero, and an imprisoned woman. Over the course of the novel, she must conquer her terror to possess the love of a man.

Bronte’s Jane Eyre features a protagonist in a state of perpetual limbo between classes. An adoptive orphan placed into the socially and financially perilous role of governess, Jane continually crosses boundaries of social class and hierarchy, leaving her often on the outskirts of English domestic life and leading to a great deal of problems in her marriage to Rochester. Indeed, Jane laments her position within the English “caste” society in chapter three, when comparing her arguably less-liberated state to that of the “poor women” of England’s lower social classes, saying that she “was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste” (#). Yet, Jane’s figuring of herself among the

Jane Eyre was published during a time when the treatment of females was not so great. Women were seen as possessions, and were passed back and forth from person to person until the day they died. There was no such thing as an independent female, and even though they were allowed to be somewhat educated but not allowed to control their own lives. Jane Eyre was a woman with a lot of experience in this department, but she definitely wanted her own control even though she didn’t have the power for this. The novel, Jane Eyre, showed the real treatment of women back in the Victorian age. “The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability attempts to reintroduce some interpretive possibilities to Charlotte Brontë's novel and, more specifically,

The novel is structured in two parts where the beginning is in the form of a flashback of Jane Eyre as a ten year old and then continues through Jane’s life rapidly to where she is now 31 years old. As a child, Jane was mistreated and verbally abused by her non-blood related aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her wicked children. One of the two maids of the house, Bessie, sympathizes for Jane and cares for her personally. Jane is sent to solitude in the “red-room” when she is “bad” and is forced to sit alone in the room her kind uncle passed away in. When her horrid cousin, who is much bigger than her, throws her book at her head, Jane retaliates and is able to hurt him to the point

“I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me.” (69) In Charlotte Bronte’s book Jane Eyre, Jane was treated horribly but must obey. She believed that Christians should dislike those who dislike them. Through meeting different Christian people Jane spiritually grows.

Jane Eyre has been an orphan since her early childhood. She feels thrown out and excluded by the beginning of the novel. The cruel treatment she derives from her Aunt Reed and her cousins worsens her feeling of tragic detachment. Jane feels the need to belong somewhere - to find “kin”

Jane experiences issues in each of the settings she resides in. In Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Jane Eyre, the Reed family abuses Jane at Gateshead. Similarly, Mr. Brocklehurst harms and strips Jane of her self confidence at Lowood, the institution he manages. After her time at Lowood, Rochester betrays Jane in his home, Thornfield Hall. In order to rid herself of that hurtful emotion, Jane escapes to the Moor house. However, at her supposed sanctuary, St. John, one of the members of the household, takes Jane’s power away. Jane drifts through multiple settings in the plot as a way to cope with the insecurities instilled in her.

“He himself senses this trickery as a source of power, and therefore, in Jane’s case at least, an evasion of that equality in which he claims to believe” (Gibert and Gubar 354). Rochester’s previous experience with women and his hidden knowledge of sex in general does inhibit the two characters from being equal especially after the two are engaged, as Jane is practically clueless in the area. The biggest secret of the novel, the fact that Rochester has hidden his wife, Bertha Mason, locked in the attic for ten years, is actually the one factor of the story that suggests the master, Rochester, is inferior to the servant, Jane. It is revealed that Rochester married Bertha “for status, money and sex,” which goes against everything Jane stands for (Gilbert and Gubar 356). Rochester also tells Jane about his relationship with his daughter Adele’s mother, Celine, whom he was never married to.

As a young child, Jane is overly passionate and defiant. She is fully convinced of the rightness of her rebellion against those who wrongfully hurt her. Jane’s uncle, Mr. Reed took her into his home after both of her parents died. Before he died, he made Mrs. Reed promise that she would treat Jane as one of her own. Although she said she would, she broke her promise because of her resentfulness of her husband's favoritism towards Jane. Now Mrs. Reed takes every opportunity to neglect and punish her. She always refuses permission to let Jane play with her cousins Eliza, John, and Georgiana. Jane secludes herself behind curtains of a window seat

When Jane was placed in the red room for striking her Cousin John. Jane mentions that seeing herself through the looking glass she saw a “Real Spirit” Jane recalls about the mystical creatures resembles herself as ”tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp” remembering night time stories when she was told as a child (Brontë 9). Jane identifies herself as “the other” in the household of Gateshead hall. Jane knew that she was different from the rest of the Reeds family. During this scene, she is coming of age.

Jane Eyre was ten years; she was with her aunt Sr. Sra. Reed, Sr. Reed took charge of Jane, moreover, became orphan in her mother death. When Jane was with her aunt, she did not like it and her star questioning the injustices of how they care about her. Then the Sr. Reed sends Jane to a women's institution to learn how to be a women independent. Went Jane goes to the institution, even more, she makes a lot of friends like the superintendent of the institution the Sra. Temple. Jane becomes a strong and independent woman in the institution. Jane sees Sra. Temple like her mother and her governess, then the Sra. Temple get marry and Jane became a governess. Then Jane go to the Thornfield to take care a little girl in the mansion of Rochester, the ownership was Rochester who occasionally he visited the few times. The next day, Jane was in her bedroom, and she listening right outside her door a scratch and a sinister laugh, then when Jane go outside her bedroom she saw nothing outside then in a moment she saw fire in one of the bedroom. Jane run and notices that the room was of Mr. Rochester. Then the two of they made it out of the house, Mr. Rochester said to Jane “do not tell anyone about this”. Mr. Rochester that day of the fire of the mansion he jump from the roof, and he get blind and with one hand. Later on, Jane begins falling in love with Mr. Rochester. When they married, Rochester over time could see