Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë follows the journey of an orphaned girl who overcomes hardship and isolation to become a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she falls in love with her mysterious employer, Mr. Rochester, only to uncover a devastating secret that shatters their romance. Filled with passion, mystery, and suspense, this timeless classic celebrates Jane’s resilience, integrity, and moral growth, making it one of the most beloved novels in English literature.
Jane Eyre pdf Summary
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a book about an orphan who endures a harsh childhood, Jane Eyre becomes governess at Thornfield Hall in the employment of the mysterious Mr. Rochester. Jane’s moral pilgrimage and the maturity of Charlotte Bronte’s characterization are celebrated aspects of the novel, as is its imagery and narrative power. Rapidly reprinted following its first publication in 1847, Jane Eyre still enjoys huge popularity as one of the finest novels in the English language. Poor and plain, Jane Eyre begins life as a lonely orphan in the household of her hateful aunt. Despite the oppression she endures at home, and the later torture of boarding school, Jane manages to emerge with her spirit and integrity unbroken. She becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she finds herself falling in love with her employer—the dark, impassioned Mr. Rochester. But an explosive secret tears apart their relationship, forcing Jane to face poverty and isolation once again. One of the world’s most beloved novels, Jane Eyre is a startlingly modern blend of passion, romance, mystery, and suspense.
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Charlotte Bronte Author of Jane Eyre pdf Book
Charlotte Brontë, best known for her novel Jane Eyre pdf book, was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, the daughter of an Anglican clergyman. After the death of her mother, Charlotte was left with her sisters Anne and Emily and her brother Branwell to the care of their strictly religious Aunt Elisabeth. During a somewhat unhappy childhood the children created imaginary worlds as an escape from their everyday life. She attended the Clergy Daughter s School at Cowan Bridge but returned in the same year due to the harsh conditions, which she later suggested as the cause of her elder sisters deaths and her own melancholia. In 1839 Charlotte was governess with the Sidgwick family at Skipton, and in 1841 with the White family at Rawdon, however her attempts to earn a living as a governess were constantly hampered by her terrible shyness, her ignorance of children and her longing to be with her sisters. Jane Eyre was published in 1847 and achieved immediate success. She dedicated the book to W.M. Thackeray. It is the story of a penniless orphan who becomes a teacher, obtains a post as a governess, comes into an inheritance from an uncle and finally marries the Byronic hero, clearly reflecting an autobiographical influence. In 1854 Charlotte married her father s curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died during her pregnancy on March the 31st 1855. Over the past fifty years her reputation has risen greatly, and her work has been shown to speak up for oppressed women of all ages.
Jane Eyre pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- ASIN : 1853260207
- Publisher : Wordsworth Editions Ltd (August 31, 1997)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781853260209
- ISBN-13 : 978-1853260209
- Reading age : 18 years
- Lexile measure : 890L
- Item Weight : 9.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.9 x 7.7 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #57,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,140 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction
- #2,090 in Classic Literature & Fiction
- #2,250 in Regency Romances
- Customer Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,956 ratings
Jane Eyre characters by Charlotte Bronte
- Jane Eyre: The novel’s narrator and protagonist, she eventually becomes the second wife of Edward Rochester. Orphaned as a baby, Jane struggles through her nearly loveless childhood and becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall. Though facially plain, Jane is passionate and strongly principled and values freedom and independence. She also has a strong conscience and is a determined Christian. She is ten at the beginning of the novel, and nineteen or twenty at the end of the main narrative. As the final chapter of the novel states that she has been married to Edward Rochester for ten years, she is approximately thirty at its completion.
- Mrs. Sarah Reed: (née Gibson) Jane’s maternal aunt by marriage, who reluctantly adopted Jane in accordance with her late husband’s wishes. According to Mrs. Reed, he pitied Jane and often cared for her more than for his own children. Mrs. Reed’s resentment leads her to abuse and neglect the girl. She lies to Mr. Brocklehurst about Jane’s tendency to lie, preparing him to be severe with Jane when she arrives at Brocklehurst’s Lowood School.
- John Reed: Jane’s fourteen-year-old first cousin who bullies her incessantly and violently, sometimes in his mother’s presence. Addicted to food and sweets, causing him ill health and bad complexion. John eventually ruins himself as an adult by drinking and gambling and is rumoured to have committed suicide.
- Eliza Reed: Jane’s thirteen-year-old first cousin. Envious of her more attractive younger sister and a slave to a rigid routine, she self-righteously devotes herself to religion. She leaves for a nunnery near Lisle (France) after her mother’s death, determined to estrange herself from her sister.
- Georgiana Reed: Jane’s eleven-year-old first cousin. Although beautiful and indulged, she is insolent and spiteful. Her elder sister Eliza foils Georgiana’s marriage to the wealthy Lord Edwin Vere when the couple is about to elope. Georgiana eventually marries a “wealthy worn-out man of fashion.”
- Bessie Lee: The nursemaid at Gateshead Hall. She often treats Jane kindly, telling her stories and singing her songs, but she has a quick temper. Later, she marries Robert Leaven with whom she has three children.
- Miss Martha Abbot: Mrs. Reed’s maid at Gateshead Hall. She is unkind to Jane and tells Jane she has less right to be at Gateshead than a servant does.
- Mr. Lloyd: A compassionate apothecary who recommends that Jane be sent to school. Later, he writes a letter to Miss Temple confirming Jane’s account of her childhood and thereby clears Jane of Mrs. Reed’s charge of lying.
- Mrs. Alice Fairfax: The elderly, kind widow and the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall; distantly related to the Rochesters.
- Adèle Varens: An excitable French child to whom Jane is a governess at Thornfield Hall. Adèle’s mother was a dancer named Céline. She was Mr. Rochester’s mistress and claimed that Adèle was Mr. Rochester’s daughter, though he refuses to believe it due to Céline’s unfaithfulness and Adèle’s apparent lack of resemblance to him. Adèle seems to believe that her mother is dead (she tells Jane in chapter 11, “I lived long ago with mamma, but she is gone to the Holy Virgin”). Mr. Rochester later tells Jane that Céline actually abandoned Adèle and “ran away to Italy with a musician or singer” (ch. 15). Adèle and Jane develop a strong liking for one another, and although Mr. Rochester places Adèle in a strict school after Jane flees Thornfield Hall, Jane visits Adèle after her return and finds a better, less severe school for her. When Adèle is old enough to leave school, Jane describes her as “a pleasing and obliging companion – docile, good-tempered and well-principled”, and considers her kindness to Adèle well repaid.
- Grace Poole: “…a woman of between thirty and forty; a set, square-made figure, red-haired, and with a hard, plain face…” Mr. Rochester pays her a very high salary to keep his mad wife, Bertha, hidden and quiet. Grace is often used as an explanation for odd happenings at the house such as strange laughter that was heard not long after Jane arrived. She has a weakness for drinking that occasionally allows Bertha to escape.
Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”
“Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.”
“Do you think I am an automaton?–a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!–I have as much soul as you,–and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;–it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal,–as we are!”
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.”
“’I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me–for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.’”
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still.” –Mr. Rochester
“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you–especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I’ve a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly.” –Mr. Rochester
“Her coming was my hope each day,
Her parting was my pain;
The chance that did her steps delay
Was ice in every vein.”
–Song sung by Mr. Rochester
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
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