jane eyre
* JANE EYRE IS A YOUNG ORPHAN being raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel, wealthy aunt. * Servant named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives, telling her stories and singing songs to her. * One day, as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed, Jane's aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room, the room in which Jane's Uncle Reed died. * While locked in, Jane, believing that she sees her uncle's ghost, screams and faints. She wakes to find herself in the care of Bessie and the kindly Mr. Lloyd, who suggests to Mrs. Reed that Jane be sent away to school. To Jane's delight, Mrs. Reed concurs. * Once at the Lowood School, Jane finds that her life is far from idyllic. The school's headmaster is Mr. Brocklehurst, a cruel, hypocritical, and abusive man. * The girls live in poverty yet the funds provide a wealthy and opulent lifestyle for his own family. * At Lowood, Jane befriends a young girl named Helen Burns, * A massive typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, and Helen dies. The epidemic also results in the departure of Mr. Brocklehurst by attracting attention to the insalubrious conditions at Lowood. * After a group of more sympathetic gentlemen takes Brocklehurst's place, Jane's life improves dramatically. She spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher. * Jane yearns for new experiences. She accepts a
Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre Authors use different types of literary devices such as setting in their works to reveal theme. Setting can be described as the time and place in which an event occurs. It is a major factor in revealing plot and showing character development. The setting in The Grapes of Wrath allows the reader to see the poor conditions in the dust bowl that the Joad family was forced to live and the opportunities they had in California; however, they were unable to obtain them. Charlotte Bronte sets her story, Jane Eyre, in the 1840's, a time often refereed to as the Victorian age. By doing this, the reader can get a sense of how women are treated, and what responsibilities they were required to uphold in society. They rarely held important jobs if they were not married. Instead, they basically had two options either as a governess or a schoolteacher. If they were married they were mothers and hostesses for their husband's parties. Jane was a very strong woman for her time, as she did not allow people to mistreat her. She is on a constant search for love and goes many places to find it. As Jane travels through each place, starting at age ten in Gateshead Hall till she was nineteen in Ferndean, she matures as a result of the experiences that she has, which in turn allows her to become a strong woman. In the beginning of the novel, Jane, age ten, lives in Gateshead Hall, a house
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre Before writing this assignment I am going to write about the novelist who possibly has written one of the best novels I have ever read. The novelist who wrote Jane Eyre is called Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte was born In Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816. She was the third child to have been born by her parents Maria and Patrick Bronte. Mrs.Bronte died in the year of 1821 so Charlotte and her fours sisters and her Brother Branwell were left in the loving care of their aunt Elizabeth Branwell- Charlotte and her sisters were sent to a school of Daughters Of The Clergy. Between 1831 to 1832 Charlotte was at Miss.Woolers school at Roehead where she did later return as a teacher in 1835. In 1847 she published Jane Eyre. This became a success so she later published three over novels "Shirley", "Villette" and "Professor". The Bronte sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne all created brave and indomitable heroines: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's fiery Catherine Earnshaw of the famous book Withering heights and Anne's Helen Graham who was in the Tenant of Wildfell Hall left her drunken and brutal husband- perhaps partly based on their brother Branwell taking her son with her and earning a living as an artist, and audacious action in the masculine dominated world of Victorian Society. To have their books published they had to adopt male pseudonyms. By the names of Currer, Ellis and
Jane Eyre Summary
Jane Eyre Précis Jane Eyre is a girl growing up in the home of her rich Aunt, Mrs. Reed, who, along with her children, mistreats Jane. One day after Jane's cousin, John Reed, knocks her down, she is punished for fighting with him by being sent to the room where her uncle died. There, she swoons in fear that that room is haunted, and wakes back in the nursery with a kind servant, Bessie, and an apothecary, Mr. Lloyd, at her side. After Jane confides in Mr. Lloyd about how unhappy she is at Gateshead, he recommends to Mrs. Reed that Jane be sent to school. Mrs. Reed soon has a meeting with the superintendent, Mr. Brocklehurst, and Jane is sent to Lowood school. At Lowood, Jane finds that the girls are given only the most basic amenities needed to survive. Jane is frustrated when her friend, Helen Burns, takes unjust punishment from teachers, but uses the example Helen sets to endure the humiliation Mr. Brocklehurst causes her when he calls her a "liar" in front of all the students. Mrs. Temple, a kind teacher, soon clears Jane of these charges. Many of the girls in the school become ill with the typhus fever, and Helen dies of the consumption. Mr. Brocklehurst is blamed for the illnesses, and he is soon replaced by a kinder group, who creates a much more pleasant environment for the girls. After six more years of schooling and two years as a teacher, Jane takes a
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre in 1847, when no women had succeeded in writing a play; essay, history or philosophical treatises of generally acknowledge merit. But when it came to novels, Charlotte Bronte is a prime example of a woman who had already triumphantly demonstrated her ability. Jane Eyre is a fictional-autobiography, as many of Charlotte Bronte's own experiences are mirrored in those of her heroine, the pagtontominist of the book, Jane Eyre throughout the book. When Charlotte Bronte's father was left a widower with six children, he arranged for his dead wife's sister to act as housekeeper. Although she seems to have been a respectable and dutiful person, she never ceased to regret being obliged to spend her life in windswept Yorkshire, (where Charlotte Bronte was born), instead of sunny Cornwall. Thus she never became a warm or loving substitute for the mother the six children had lost. This mirrors Jane Eyre's childhood, because as a 10-year-old orphan, she was unwanted and neglected in the home of her uncle's widow Mrs Reed, of Gateshead Hall. Her cousins, Eliza, John and Georgiana are fondly treated, while Jane is made to feel unwanted. Jane was "consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John and Georgiana Reed" (pg 1). Mrs Reed tells her quite unfairly, that until she can be more frank and sociable, she cannot be accepted on her cousin's
Jane Eyre essay
Is Jane Eyre anything more than a superior, if idiosyncratic, Mills and Boon Romance? The guidelines for writing a Mills and Boon Romance novel state certain criteria, including that it should: ...deal with the love between a man and woman, a love that is resolved happily in the end. The emphasis is on the shattering power of that love to change lives, to develop character, to transform perception... Any situation may be used - from those that confront concerns such as divorce, affairs, illegitimacy or the problems of materialism, to those bordering on fairy tales.1 On first reading the novel it would seem that Jane Eyre does contain some of these characteristics: the incredible romantic attraction between Jane and Mr Rochester; their subsequent love affair; Jane's disinheritance and ultimate retrieval of her legacy; their marriage at the termination of the novel. However, Jane Eyre cannot be seen merely as a Romance, and it is the idiosyncrasies in the style in which it is written which characterise it as something distinctly unique in terms of Victorian literature. Jane Eyre was written in 1948 and can be said to fall under the genre of the Victorian Governess novel. These novels explore the concerns of the middle-class woman in employment in the nineteenth-century. At the onset of the novel we know that Jane is an outsider in the house of her cousins: she is
The Maturing of Jane in Jane Eyre
The Maturing of Jane in Jane Eyre When a caterpillar hatches from its mother's egg, it enters this world as an innocent, pure creature. As time passes by, it unwraps its cocoon and goes through metamorphosis. Once the caterpillar grows into a fully developed butterfly, it has lost its innocence and purity forever. Jane was an inexperienced caterpillar but her stay at Lowood and her challenging time at Thornfield with Mr. Rochester has changed her into an independent, matured butterfly. When Jane was young, she taught herself to be virtuous. Her aunt's criticisms and punishments has made Jane realize that she wasn't treated as part of the family. Her development of determination and self-reliance become more superior each day she spent at Gateshead. Jane states: "...I hate to live here." This quote proves that Jane hated Gateshead and she was determined to find a better place. The place Jane found was the Lowood Institution for orphans. It was not a better place but it helped Jane stand on her own feet. Through the help of Helen Burns, Jane has learned to love, forget hatred and live her life in happiness. Helen states: "Life appears too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." These words shows that Helen is more mature and experienced than Jane. Jane observes: "Miss Temple is full of goodness..." Miss
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre Jane Eyre is a book written in 1847 by a woman named Charlotte Brontè. She had published the book under the name of Currer Bell to discourage any bad publicity, in Victorian times if a woman had written a book it wouldn't be unusual if no one read it. In the book the main character relates to the writer in many ways the strongest relevance of all being they were non-believers in the stereotypical Victorian woman. I would say this book could have been the start of a revolution of how women thought & how they act. The book is about an articulate young Victorian woman who has radical ideas on the treatment & expectations of Victorian women. In the time it was written women were expected to be submissive to men & men would treat women as objects, a prize if it be his wife. Charlotte Brontè suggests that this was wrong which was very peculiar, as a woman was not expected to her own views. In my essay I will be particularly looking at Jane's character but also in little detail her friends & family. At Gateshead the weather is rainy & windy "ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long & lamenting blast" this is an example of pathetic fallacy which Charlotte Brontè uses to show Jane's emotions. Jane is feeling dull & dreary which is shown by the overcast day. John Reed bullies her & members of her new family do not accept Jane. John treats her as if she is vermin
Jane Eyre
Kristin Kababik U6782074 9th Century Novel TM 01 Part 1 In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the title character has to keep vigil over an apparently dying Mr Mason while Mr Rochester goes off for help. The overwhelming sentiment gained from reading these paragraphs is that this heroine is rather breathless and filled with anxiety. The short and incomplete sentences mimicking her eyes darting around the room and reflecting the short breaths she must be taking. There is also the sense of her mind running away with fright the longer she sits there nursing Mr Mason, worrying if Grace Poole, whom she believed to be the cause of this trauma, was capable of getting out and attacking her in the same way. The longer she sits in this darkening room the more questions pop into her head and without answers to them, they only get worse and more frequent. Jane Eyre's description of the patient's eyes actually quite reflects what her own would be doing if she didn't have him to look after so closely. The eyes darting around, opening and closing, the horrified look in his eyes mirroring her own emotions. The language used in this section shifts from the previously almost overly descriptive to very brief synopsis of what her anxious mind can hold on to. The short sentences all dutifully begin with 'I must' which the reader should expect from the character of Jane Eyre that we have gotten
Research notes on "Jane Eyre"
“An epic tale of love, secrets and passion” BBC adaptation full title · Jane Eyre author · Charlotte Brontë (originally published under the male pseudonym Currer Bell) type of work · Novel genre · the Gothic; the romance novel; and the Bildungsroman time and place written · 1847, London date of first publication · 1847 publisher · Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill narrator · Jane Eyre protagonist · Jane Eyre setting (time) · Early decades of the nineteenth century. setting (place) · The novel is structured around five separate locations, all supposedly in northern England: the Reed family’s home at Gateshead, the wretched Lowood School, Rochester’s manor house Thornfield, the Rivers family’s home at Moor House, and Rochester’s rural retreat at Ferndean. characters· Jane Eyre Edward Rochester St. John Rivers Mrs. Reed Bessie Lee Mr. Lloyd Georgiana Reed Eliza Reed John Reed Helen Burns. Mr. Maria Temple Miss Scatcherd Alice Fairfax Bertha Mason Grace Poole Adèle Varens Celine Varens Sophie Richardason Mr. Briggs Blanche Ingram Diana Rivers Mary Rivers. Rosamond Oliver John Eyre Uncle Reed themes · Love versus autonomy; religion; social class; gender relations motifs · Fire and ice; substitute mothers symbols · Bertha Mason; the red-room Jane Eyre Main Facts "It is not violence that best overcomes hate nor vengeance that most
