Jane Eyre Book Report

Jane Eyre Book ReportThe main character of the countersign is Jane Eyre (round character). The book follows her through her troubled childhood and anima hug drugess as a upstart wo worldly concern. She is a gentle and intelligent girl, just now she has no confidence in herself be fount she is raised by her aunty who does not love her. She has no family and is alone unprotected by social position. When the novel begins, she is an isolated, powerless ten-year-old girl who lives with her aunt and cousins who dislike her. As the novel progresses, she grows in strength. Jane Eyre slowly develops from an un knowing unseasoned girl learning the hardships of smell, into a happy and contented charr. At the exterminate of the novel, she has become a powerful, independent woman living together with the man she loves Mr. Rochester.Charlotte Bront was born in 1816 in Thornton in Yorkshire, England. She was the ordinal child of Patrick Bront and female horse Branwell and was soon follo wed by her brother Patrick Branwell in 1817, her babe Emily in 1818 and her sister Anne in 1820. Her father was a poor English clergyman and was role and abusive. In 1821 the family moved to Haworth, after her father find work at a church there. In the same year her mother dies of cancer. In 1824 Charlotte and one-third of her sisters were sent to study at the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge. The conditions at the direct were poor and they were treated with inhuman severity. The Lowood School in Jane Eyre was establish on this school and Miss Scatcherd in the novel was based on the manager of the school. A fever broke out at the school and the girl returned home, plainly ii of the sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, died of tuberculosis. The experience of Cowan Bridge and the expiry of her sisters had an effect on Charlotte. With their father not communicating much with them and having no real contact with the outside world, the children spent their time reading and creatin g their revert imaginary worlds.When Charlotte was nineteen years old, she became a teacher. hardly because of her bad health, she had to give it up. She later worked watching over the children of wealthy families as a governess. But the people treated her poorly, so she had to give this up too. She unflinching indeed to attend a language school in Brussels with her sisters Emily and Anne and overleap in love with a married professor at the school, simply she never fully admitted the fact to herself.After returning to Haworth in 1844, Charlotte Bront became depressed. She was lonely(prenominal) and felt that she lacked the abi illuminatedy to do any creative work. She discovered that both(prenominal) of her sisters had been writing poetry, as she had. They decided to publish selected poems of all three sisters in 1846 a collection of their was print under the pseudonyms of Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily) and Acton (Anne) Bell. Charlotte contri scarcelyed 19 poems.Then th ey decided to each write a novel and to publish them. Her sisters novels were accepted for publication, but Charlottes first novel The Professor, based upon her Brussels experience, was rejected and was not published until after her death.Charlotte Bronts second novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. It became the most prospering book of the year and it was translated into most of the languages of Europe.Despite her success as a writer, Charlotte Bront continued to live a quiet life in Yorkshire. In 1854 she married Arthur Nicholls, a man who had once worked as an assistant to her father, but she died within a year of their marriage on March 31, 1955.Summary.Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel, wealthy aunt. A consideration named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives, telling her stories and singing songs to her. One twenty-four hour period, as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed, Janes aunt impriso ns Jane in the red-room, the room in which Janes Uncle Reed died. While locked in, Jane, believing that she sees her uncles ghost, screams and faints. She wakes to find herself in the care of Bessie and the kindly apothecary Mr. Lloyd, who suggests to Mrs. Reed that Jane be sent forth to school. To Janes delight, Mrs. Reed concurs.Once at the Lowood School, Jane finds that her life is far from idyllic. The schools headmaster is Mr. Brocklehurst, a cruel, hypocritical, and abusive man. Brocklehurst preaches a doctrine of poverty and privation to his students while use the schools funds to provide a wealthy and opulent lifestyle for his aver family. At Lowood, Jane befriends a young girl named Helen Burns, whose strong, martyr like stance toward the schools miseries is both helpful and displeasing to Jane. A massive typhus pestilent sweeps Lowood, and Helen dies of consumption. The epidemic also results in the departure of Mr. Brocklehurst by attracting attention to the foul con ditions at Lowood. After a group of more sympathetic gentlemen takes Brocklehursts place, Janes life improves dramatically. She spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher.After teaching for two years, Jane yearns for new experiences. She accepts a governess position at a manor called Thornfield, where she teaches a lively French girl named Adle. The distinguished housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax presides over the estate. Janes employer at Thornfield is a dark, impassioned man named Rochester, with whom Jane finds herself falling secretly in love. She saves Rochester from a fire one night, which he claims was started by a drunken servant named Grace Poole. But because Grace Poole continues to work at Thornfield, Jane concludes that she has not been told the undefiled story. Jane sinks into despondency when Rochester brings home a beautiful but vicious woman named Blanche Ingram. Jane expects Rochester to propose to Blanche. But Rochester instead proposes to Jan e, who accepts almost disbelievingly.The marriage day arrives, and as Jane and Mr. Rochester prepare to exchange their vows, the voice of Mr. mason cries out that Rochester already has a wife. Mason introduces himself as the brother of that wife a woman named Bertha. Mr. Mason testifies that Bertha, whom Rochester married when he was a young man in Jamaica, is all the same alive. Rochester does not deny Masons claims, but he explains that Bertha has gone mad. He takes the wedding party back to Thornfield, where they witness the insane Bertha Mason scurrying close to on all fours and growling like an animal. Rochester keeps Bertha hidden on the third story of Thornfield and pays Grace Poole to keep his wife under control. Bertha was the real cause of the mysterious fire earlier in the story. Knowing that it is impossible for her to be with Rochester, Jane flees Thornfield.Penniless and hungry, Jane is forced to sleep outdoors and beg for food. At last, three siblings who live in a manor alternatively called Marsh stop over and Moor House take her in. Their names are Mary, Diana, and St. John Rivers, and Jane quickly becomes friends with them. St. John is a clergyman, and he finds Jane a job teaching at a charity school in Morton. 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 further by declaring that her uncle was also his uncle Jane and the Rivers are cousins. Jane nowadays decides to share her inheritance equally with her three newfound relatives.St. John decides to voyage to India as a missionary, and he urges 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. St. John pressures her to reconsider, and she nearly gives in. However, she realizes that she cannot desert forever the man she truly loves when one night she hears Rochesters voice duty her name over the moors. Jane immediately hurries back to Thornfield and finds that it has been burned to the ground by Bertha Mason, who lost her life in the fire. Rochester saved the servants but lost his seeing and one of his hands. Jane travels on to Rochesters new residence, Ferndean, where he lives with two servants named John and Mary.At Ferndean, Rochester and Jane rebuild their relationship and soon marry. At the end of her story, Jane writes that she has been married for ten blissful years and that she and Rochester enjoy perfect equality in their life together. She says that after two years of blindness, Rochester regained sight in one essence and was able to behold their first son at his birth. 1Personal evaluation.I think Jane Eyre is a very good novel, for its great theme, its moving plots and its happy ending. The story develops in a way that holds your interest as Jane meets Mr. Rochester and the secrets of Thornfield abode are revealed. 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