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Themes

Though you probably know, There are a few Themes to look out for:

-Love
-Religion
-class(middle,poor,working class)
-Gender Roles
-Ice and Fire
-Motifs and Symbols

Things to also look for is Bertha, symbol of a “trapped” victorian wife and The red room.

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and from the very beginning

When I read Jane Eyre, I was fully into the story, the characters, Jane’s plight as an orphan at Gateshead and Lowood and her transition to governess at Thornfield. The story develops in a way that holds your interest as she meets Rochester(her love) and the hidden secrets of Thornfield are revealed. What lies await for Jane is nothing compared to what she has escaped from and this. I leaves me guessing on what is going to happen next, Jane Eyre really can’t be beat, it is a true gothic novel. It is a romance between two strong characters each with diametrically opposed pasts and who represent the time period in which it was written. The plot is so imaginative and full of turns and twists that it is impossible to put down. This book leaves the reader wanting to know what will happen to the much abused Jane and read with increasing credulity all that she goes through as a child. And subsequently the fate that befalls her once she is at Thornfield. I strongly recommend Jane Eyre. So Go get yourself a copy, snuggle on the couch and travel to England in the 1840′s courtesy of Charlotte Bronte.

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Can you say hello?

Well wasn’t that a nice first impression, horse slipping on ice making Rochester fall to the ground. Good thing Jane was there to help him up with his spranged ankle. Jane believed that a relationship should be filled with self respect and fairness. At first she did not want to get involved with him. but she gave in after a while. This is the good part, What is he hiding? makes you wonder, Adele(french girl) spoke of her mother. But Rochester promised to tell her more in the future. Well she didn’t know that the future was going to be on her wedding day.. That was such a mess

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Chapter of starting NEW

Chapter 10, a new change in Jane life. She changes from being a teacher to a governess. She teaches a french girl. Thornfield is the name of the manor she is going to be at. She blocks like everyone away from her. Even Bessie, I think she just needed a new life. The one she was in wasn’t good enough as you can see. She was poor and this gave her a little step up.

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more to know

Jane goes to school and is treated horribly because of her reglion outlook. In my opinion I don’t think they should mix state public schools with religion. Nowdays we don’t, but back then they did. Mrs.Reed is a horrble aunt to tell the teachers news and things Jane could be picked on in school. I am super glad she found a friend(Helen). She needs all the support she can get. I am so glad she stayed in school. So far her childhood stinks. loveless..

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Gothic Novel

ImageThis Story has presented itself to be a gothic novel. During the time of this book this was relavent. While Jane Eyre is certainly not a horror novel, and its intellectually ambitious criticisms of society make it far more than a typical Gothic romance, it is Brontë’s employment of Gothic conventions that gives her novel popular as well as intellectual appeal.

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Characters!

MAJOR Character List

Jane Eyre – The protagonist and narrator of the novel, Jane is an intelligent, honest, plain-featured young girl forced to contend with oppression, inequality, and hardship. Although she meets with a series of individuals who threaten her autonomy, Jane repeatedly succeeds at asserting herself and maintains her principles of justice, human dignity, and morality. She also values intellectual and emotional fulfillment. Her strong belief in gender and social equality challenges the Victorian prejudices against women and the poor.
Edward Rochester – Jane’s employer and the master of Thornfield, Rochester is a wealthy, passionate man with a dark secret that provides much of the novel’s suspense. Rochester is unconventional, ready to set aside polite manners, propriety, and consideration of social class in order to interact with Jane frankly and directly. He is rash and impetuous and has spent much of his adult life roaming about Europe in an attempt to avoid the consequences of his youthful indiscretions. His problems are partly the result of his own recklessness, but he is a sympathetic figure because he has suffered for so long as a result of his early marriage to Bertha.
Read an in-depth analysis of Edward Rochester.
St. John Rivers - Along with his sisters, Mary and Diana, St. John (pronounced “Sinjin”) serves as Jane’s benefactor after she runs away from Thornfield, giving her food and shelter. The minister at Morton, St. John is cold, reserved, and often controlling in his interactions with others. Because he is entirely alienated from his feelings and devoted solely to an austere ambition, St. John serves as a foil to Edward Rochester.
Read an in-depth analysis of St. John Rivers.
Mrs. Reed - Mrs. Reed is Jane’s cruel aunt, who raises her at Gateshead Hall until Jane is sent away to school at age ten. Later in her life, Jane attempts reconciliation with her aunt, but the old woman continues to resent her because her husband had always loved Jane more than his own children.
Mr. Lloyd – Mr. Lloyd is the Reeds’ apothecary, who suggests that Jane be sent away to school. Always kind to Jane, Mr. Lloyd writes a letter to Miss Temple confirming Jane’s story about her childhood and clearing Jane of Mrs. Reed’s charge that she is a liar.
Georgiana Reed - Georgiana Reed is Jane’s cousin and one of Mrs. Reed’s two daughters. The beautiful Georgiana treats Jane cruelly when they are children, but later in their lives she befriends her cousin and confides in her.
Eliza Reed - Eliza Reed is Jane’s cousin and one of Mrs. Reed’s two daughters (along with her sister, Georgiana).
Helen Burns - Helen Burns is Jane’s close friend at the Lowood School. She endures her miserable life there with a passive dignity that Jane cannot understand. Helen dies of consumption in Jane’s arms.
Mr. Brocklehurst - The cruel, hypocritical master of the Lowood School, Mr. Brocklehurst preaches a doctrine of privation, while stealing from the school to support his luxurious lifestyle. After a typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, Brocklehurst’s shifty and dishonest practices are brought to light and he is publicly discredited.
Maria Temple – Maria Temple is a kind teacher at Lowood, who treats Jane and Helen with respect and compassion. Along with Bessie Lee, she serves as one of Jane’s first positive female role models. Miss Temple helps clear Jane of Mrs. Reed’s accusations against her.
Bertha Mason – Rochester’s clandestine wife, Bertha Mason is a formerly beautiful and wealthy Creole woman who has become insane, violent, and bestial. She lives locked in a secret room on the third story of Thornfield and is guarded by Grace Poole, whose occasional bouts of inebriation sometimes enable Bertha to escape. Bertha eventually burns down Thornfield, plunging to her death in the flames.
Adèle Varens – adopted daughter of Rochester
Sophie – Sophie is Adèle’s French nurse at Thornfield.
Richard Mason - Richard Mason is Bertha’s brother. During a visit to Thornfield, he is injured by his mad sister. After learning of Rochester’s intent to marry Jane, Mason arrives with the solicitor Briggs in order to thwart the wedding and reveal the truth of Rochester’s prior marriage.
John Eyre - John Eyre is Jane’s uncle, who leaves her his vast fortune of 20,000 pounds.

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Punishment?

Okay this poor little girl, Who makes someone trapped in a room where someone has died in???? I would be so creeped out! The room is called the “red room”. It gives me chills just thinking about it. Would you do that to someone? I sure wouldn’t, especially a little orphan kid. Now come on they already have it rough being left by their parents. This is ridiculous. I just can’t stand people who punish their kids so bad. And they introduce us to this in the FIRST two chapters, I’ve very interested to read more. It sounds so good-by just reading the summary on the back of the book. When you put someone in a room like that by themselves for a while sure they are going to go crazy! and that is what she did, She imagined her Uncles ghost talking to her. Studies have been shown that when put in a room by yourself you begin to go crazy and insane, also lose knowledge. Maybe that was Mrs.Reeds plan after all….