Plot- Jane is living with her wretched Aunt Reed and her sinister children, this relationship is portrayed as very toxic, being as that she is being abused by everyone in this home that was promised to be a sanctuary for her by her late beloved Uncle. This abuse cause to Jane lose her cool and relinquishes her true feelings for her aunt which leads to her being sent to school and to never return. In Lowood school Jane faces cruelty’s with the owner, yet she learns how to act through her friendships with Helen her friend who dies later on in their friendship. Jane decides to leave her school after eight years of becoming someone new, she finds herself in Thornfield Manor as a governess, here she nearly gets married to the love of her life only to run away. Jane finds herself a beggar who’s helped by people, this family turns out to be her relatives she never knew, Jane finds news that her lost uncle died and she became rich with this news she proceeds a happy life. One night Jane decides to go back with her lover and chooses to marry this man and have a true life.
Structure- The novel Jane Eyre Is written in a quite simple form because, it illustrates the physical and figurative growth of the main character Jane Eyre. It is structured in, for the most part, narration in nearly every chapter. This is due to the fact that Jane herself is the narrator of this novel recollecting on past events of her own life providing key information so the “reader” can imagine the scenes that
Jane begins her life in isolation at Gateshead, abused and misunderstood by her Aunt Reed and cousins. She is constantly reminded of her worthlessness to them and the fact that they view her as a burden, and is literally
Jane Eyre follows the moral development of a young scared girl to a strong and unwavering woman. Through each stage of her development was an imperious male character. Jane first encounters John Reed, a spoiled and obscene person. She shortly after encounters the intensely bitter Mr. Brocklehurst. Mr. Brocklehurst seemed like a good man at first but proved to be far from that. Next was Edward Rochester. While he was by no means as harsh as John Reed or Mr.Brocklehurst he was cruel in his own way. Finally, the last strong male character was St. John Rivers. He is cold hearted and repressed. The exact opposite of the fiery Rochester. These characters vary greatly and all had an immense impact on Eyre’s development along with Brontë's construction
The character Jane starts off as an orphaned young girl. Jane was born into the poor class, she lives with her aunt and cousins that torture her. Jane is then sent away to a school called Lowood where she is taught how to become a woman. Jane remains as a student at Lowood until she is sixteen years old. When Jane reaches the age of Eighteen she then moves up to the working class and becomes a teacher at Lowood. Jane works as a teacher for a good amount of time and teach girls that were just like her. When a disease outbreaks, everything at Lowood falls apart. When an Mrs. Temple, a teacher who has helped Jane, leaves lowood to get married Jane realizes that she should leave and search for a new job. When Jane come across a job at a place called Thornfield she leaves Lowood for good and sets off to her new journey.
Furthermore, this demeaning and negative attitude Jane is exposed to is further instigated when her cousin, John Reed, expresses her situation by saying: "You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen's children like us". The truth of Jane's unfortunate situation is expressed against her which results in her feeling no true support from this family and confides only in her childhood nursemaid- Bessie, who although behaves inconsistently and has “a capricious and hasty temper”, is the closest mother figure to her. Furthermore, the friction between Jane and John is further emphasised when the first physical aspect of violence is introduced to the reader through a graphic portrayal, further showing the ultimate rejection Jane experienced
Jane is an orphan. She was adopted by Mr. John Reed, yet he died when she was a year old. One of his last wishes was for his wife, Mrs. Reed, to look after Jane. This she does out of duty, but she treats Jane as less than a servant. She despises Jane for her quiet and creative character. Jane takes great pleasure from reading books, and is very smart for her age of ten; Mrs. Reed secretly feels intimidated by her. A child of a “more sociable and child-like disposition, a more attractive and slight manner – something lighter, franker and more natural” would have been preferred; Jane is quite the opposite.
The moral development of Jane throughout her life is pivotal to the novel. Her moral integrity is repeatedly put to test through the course of the novel, and Jane must find her place in a conflicted world
The text structure of Jane Eyre is sequence, It gradually tells all of her life starting in her early childhood until the point where she has a child of her own.The book is in her point of view the whole time, excluding the times that she narrates them with her real-time reaction. Such as “Reader, I forgave him in
10-year-old Jane lives under the custody of her Aunt Reed, who hates her. Jane resents her harsh treatment by her aunt and cousins so much that she has a severe temper outburst, which results in her aunt sending her to Lowood boarding school. At the end of the eight years, she has become a teacher at Lowood. At the age of eighteen she seeks independence and becomes governess at Thornfield Hall.
The novel Jane Eyre is the story of a character who continually changes over the course of her life. Jane experiences a lot of man vs. self tribulations as she struggles with yearning after freedom but also wanting to be loved. The book goes through five main sections of Jane's life, her childhood with Mrs. Reed and her children. In her time in Lowood, she witnesses different people interpreting and expressing their religious beliefs differently. The third portion of her life is spent as a governess at Mr. Rochester’s household, where she experiences an inner struggle with wanting to be loved and having her freedom. Jane then leaves her role as governess due to her strong belief in not being tied down and also not marrying above her status. She goes to the streets where she meets some cousins and is proposed to by her headstrong and stern Christian cousin St. John. Jane flees her cousins when she earns her uncle's inheritance and hears about the state of her true love Mr. Rochester, and how his wife had killed herself and he had lost his sight. In this last stage of her life she discovers the balance of freedom and love.
Jane is an orphaned girl that ends up being raised and horribly mistreated by her aunt Mrs. Reed. One day for fighting with her cousin, Mrs. Reed puts her in the red room-the room where her uncle had died. She thinks she sees his ghost, and faints. When she wakes up to hearing Mr. Lloyd suggest she be sent away to school, while her aunt agrees. She goes to Lowood School where the principal is horrible and teaches poverty to his students. Although she makes a friend named Helen burns, she dies from a disease that sweeps through the school. This disease prompts her principal to leave and the school is taken over by a better group of gentlemen where they make Jane’s life significantly better. She graduates from the school and eventually becomes a teachr there. After two years, she becomes bored with it and becomes a governess at Thornfield and teaches a girl named Adele. She eventually comes to love Rochester, her
The main character in the book was Jane Eyre. She was a young British orphan girl, her father was a poor vicar, when he married her mother, Jane Reed of Gateshead, the Reed family were so angry that they disinherited her. Her parents died of an illness only a year after their wedding. After that, her uncle Mr. Reed took Jean to take care of her. Time fly by and her uncle Mr. Reed died, made his wife (aunt Reed) promise to take care after Jean like her own child. In the main time Jane was only 10 years old. Well, her aunt regrets her promise, she and her children’s didn’t treat Jane well, Jane was emotionally and physically abused by them. Her aunt was so mean to her and her cousin John who was only 14 years old was her worst fear and she felt so scared and miserable and lonely when he came close to her.
Jane Eyre: narrator; protagonist; relatable; lower in social class; looked down upon; follows story of her attempts at trying to find her place in the world; rebellious; eye for an eye disposition; strives for equality/justice; independent; searches for a set of morals/religion that she can follow; believes deeply in love and connecting with other people yet is strikingly independent - resists “love” (marriage) until she is confident in her own independence; she is constantly searching for a way to fit in and be loved
In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the author sets the story in the context of a patriarchal society in the Victorian era. Through the story however, the main character Jane builds relationships with other female characters that allows readers to understand the multifaceted idea of the “ideal woman” within the a patriarchy. With the relationships Jane has to the characters including Helen Burns, Miss Temple and Blanche Ingram, Brontë gives her criticisms of the restrictions that these expected gender roles put on women of the time period. Brontë uses the female characters in her novel and their relationship with or in contrast to Jane to show the confines and consequences that result on women who are subjected to the standard of being an
As a young adult, Jane is unlike her peers in that she is uninterested in searching for a husband. Instead, she busies herself with her education and eventually her career. At Lowood Institution, Jane is a good student, generally interested by school and eager to learn. Even before her arrival at Lowood, Jane finds that reading is a form of escapism available to her during her most unpleasant moments at Gateshead. Furthermore, after her time a Lowood, Jane makes the decision for herself (another feminist ideal) to become a governess, eventually guiding her towards Thornfield and her inevitable romance with its master. The decision for Jane to leave Lowood was very rebellious and strong-willed, as she had no money, relations or home to which
Jane Eyre is a story of a young girl, Jane, which travels from the days of her childhood at Gates head Hall, through the maturity of adulthood at Fern dean .The writer, portrays the young girl’s struggle among the prevalent social evils of the society. The journey starts as an orphan child, who is filled with the sense of despair and loneliness, living with her aunt Mrs. Reed and her three cousins, who are all indifferent to her. Later Jane is sent away to Lowood Institution, where she receives education but is restricted and contained by harshness of proprietor Mr. Brocklehurst. After completing her education, she serves as a teacher in the same school for about two years.