Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Novel

Jane Eyre is a novel by Charlotte Bronte and is considered the strongest work of the novelist and one of the most British novels. It was first published by Smith, Elder & Company, London in 1847. it was originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography under the pseudonym Currer Bell. It gained popularity and critical praise as soon it was released. The most notable among them was William Makepeace Thakeray.

Jane Eyre is an intelligent and passionate orphan English girl. The novel is about the formative years of this girl and uses a first-person narrative to tell the story. The novel can be separated into five stages in the girls life. They can be broadly divided into, Janes childhood at Gateshead; her education at Lowood School; her days as governess in Thornfield Manor; her times with the Rivers family and her reunion and eventual marriage to Rochester, her beloved. Divide into 38 cjhapters the novel is partly autobiographical and has social criticisms.

The novel opens in Gateshgead Hall where the 10-year old Jane Eyre stays with her mother who soon dies and the orphan girl lives with her uncle. But soon the man dies and the girl is subjected to abuses by her cousins and their mother. After an incident, she is sent to the charity school called Lowood and is agitated when Mrs Reed, her uncles wife, calls her a liar. Jane declares in Mrs. Reeds face that she despises them. The person responsible for the school, Mr. Brocklehurst, is charged with embezzlement and the Lowood is controlled much better after

Jane Eyre then jumps eight years. Jane had been working in the Lowood School for two years. Craving for a better life she advertises for being a governess. She is hired at the Thornfield Manor where she meets Rochester, her employer and future husband when he had a fall while riding. Jane again saves him from a fire. Rochester and Jane fall in love but they do not show it.

The mystery in Jane Eyre is borne by the number of incidents that occur. Meanwhile, Mrs. Reed summons Jane Eyre on her deathbed and Jane finds a letter from her uncle whereby she inherits a fortune. She and Rochester declares their love for one another and again a bizarre incident occurs. The wedding goes on as usual but is interrupted and for good when it is revealed that Rochester is married.

Rochester explains the matter to Jane Eyre and offers that they live in Southern France as man and wife though they never were. Jane refuses to act as a rich mans mistress and escapes. The novel progresses further until at the end Rochester becomes blind and cripple and Jane marries him in spite the deformities. It ends with Jane describing the bliss of a decade of matrimony. Jane Eyre