Jane Eyre Summary

Name: Sean Chelva Period: 2 Teacher: Miss Disha Date: 22/3/15 Jane Eyre Summary 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

Jane Eyre is a coming of age story about a young woman and her journey to adulthood. At the beginning of the novel. We see young Jane lives with her three cousins and aunt. These people continuously abuse her throughout her childhood. At the age of ten Jane attends boarding school. It is at this school where she learns lessons of forgiveness and hope from a young meek woman named Helen Burns. After studying and teaching at the school for eight years, Jane goes on to become a governess at the

Jane Eyre, Question1 part b: Character Development Answer: in Jane Eyre one character that was pulled in conflicting directions is Jane. When searching for freedom she was being persuaded by Mr. Rochester and St. John Rivers to be their mistress and she had to decide if either lifestyle was something she wanted and if she didn’t want either then shed be compromising her own freedom. 1. “My bride is here,” he said, again drawing me to him, “because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you

put my arms round her waist; she drew me to her, and we reposed in silence.” This reminds me of how Jane was with Bessie. Helen comforts Jane when she is upset and she is always there to give Jane advice and to tell her that everything will be okay. Also, this kind of reminds me of the bond between a younger sister and her older sister. It seems as though they love and care for each other as Jane wishes to be loved. Journal #16 Page “‘How sad to be lying now on a sick bed, and to be in danger of

Jane Eyre -Spark notes Chapter I 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

century, society very much male dominated. Women were expected to obey a man 's commands and were treated inferior to their male superior. This novel embodies the ideology of equality between men and women in society. Charlotte Bronte 's novel Jane Eyre embraces many views in opposition to the Victorian gender limitations. Ultimately, the reader can see the author develops a variety of characters who not only represent but also challenge the established gender norms existing in the 1800s. Feminists

Power dynamics in Brontë’s Jane Eyre have been examined in a multitude of ways, including the centralisation of slaves and masters (Zonana), and Dupras’ reading of the importance of economic status and depravity. However, this critical response will focus on how the ultimate form of power, and therefore the formation of power dynamics, stems from Jane’s position as an unreliable, biased narrator. The extract from chapter twenty-seven, wherein Rochester tells Jane about Bertha’s voyage and confinement

Kramer also describes their ability to “reconstruct masculine spaces” (Linkin). In a world where women were portrayed as weak, Gothic feminists were able to devise settings where this was no longer the case. In the novels Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, the authors Emily and Charlotte Bronte use gothic settings and imagery to compose novels that have engaged readers for centuries. However, the Bronte sisters biggest accomplishment wasn’t necessarily their ability to use gothic plot devices, it

Chapter 3 Summary: starting on 17. (At the end of chapter 2, Jane fell unconscious). When she wakes up, Jane finds herself in her own bedroom, with Mr. Lloyd, the SERVANT’s apothecary (a-pa-the-carry, someone who prepared and sold medicine and drugs). The next day Mr. Lloyd returned to check on Jane with Bessie, who tells of her disapproval of Jane’s aunt’s treatment of Jane. He asked about her life at Gateshead, when Jane gets enraged that everyone assumes that her aunt is nice to her, which lead

120. However, meeting Jane changes Mr. Rochester. Jane is different. She is not the naive girl that Bertha was, powerless and being pushed towards Mr. Rochester by her family. She does not submit herself to him or their situation so easily. She wants him, but she has makes sure that the feelings she has for him are shown in her own way and on her own terms outside of Mr. Rochester’s manipulation. Mary Ann Davis in “On the Extreme Brink” with Charlotte Bronte:Revisiting Jane Eyre’s Erotics of Power