Jane Eyre (Step into Classics)

Jane Eyre is written by Charlotte Bronte, who is a famous female novelist in England during nineteen century. This is also the first famous book she wrote. The book was written in Sheffield, England which is also the hometown of Charlotte. A lot of people consider this book Charlotte's autobiography. That's not exactly true but we still can find many personal experiences of Charlotte's in that book. The entire book's theme shows the values that humans should always live with dignity and love. The book tells a story about a woman named Jane Eyre. Jane was born in a very poor churchman's family and her parents died of enterotyphus when she was very young. She had to live in her uncle's family. Her aunt was a very mean and snobbish woman. She used a lot of ways to abuse Jane and even taught her child to bully Jane. Jane lived there for ten years, but she never yielded to her aunt so her aunt just treated her worse and worse. After Jane's uncle died, her aunt sent her to an orphanage. Although the life in the orphanage was still hard, and children there could not get enough food and the teachers treat them very curly, Jane got her first friend in the orphanage, a girl named Helen. Helen gave Jane much comfort and support but this happiness for her did not last too long; Helen also died by enterotyphus. After that the orphanage improved. Jane studied there for six years and taught there for two more years. Then she left the orphanage and was hired by the steward of Thornfield Hall as a tutor. Thornfiled was a big manor owned by Edward Fairfax Rochester. The life in Thornfield was good and after a long time Mr. Rochester spent with Jane, he was deeply attracted by Jane's dignified character. Jane also fell in love with Mr. Rochester. Before their marriage, bad news come, Jane was told that Mr. Rochester was already married and his violently insane wife was locked in Thornfield Hall. Jane could not bear this shock and left Thronfiled manor. Her life truned harder after she left Thornfield. After a few months later, a clergyman named St. John took Jane in and gave her a job teaching at a local school. One day, Jane got a large amount of money as inheritance from her dead uncle, which her aunt had been keeping from her, Jane also learned from her aunt that St. John is her cousin. At this time St. John asks Jane to marry him and go to India to do missionary work. Jane refused him and realized she was still in love with Mr. Rochester so she decided to go back to him. When she came back to Thornfield Hall, it had already become a ruin. She was told that after she left, the insane woman set a fire in Thornfild Hall, and died during the fire. Mr. Rochester also was hurt during the fire. When Jane returned to him, he was not rich anymore and had become a poor disabled man. But Jane did not care about this at all; she found Mr. Rochester and married him. I strongly recommend Jane Eyre. This novel is very engaging. The plot of the novel is continuous and changes a lot. Every girl should read this book because it teaches you how to be an independent woman with dignity. There are so many characteristics of Jane's that are very valuable in today's society. When I first connected with Jane Eyre, I was a fairytale age girl. Strange thing was when my mother read the novel for me; I was fell in love with it very soon. The story was interesting and I was always curious about what's happen next. Little Jane's poor experiences and her brave impressed me deeply. Those contents really motivated me a strong sense of compassion which is really important for every child in their growth. I still remember when I knew that Jane was locked in a dark room by her aunt. I felt so worry about her and after her recovered form that disaster, I felt so happy for her. That's definitely a good lecture for me that how to share the same feeling with a friend. Little Jane also taught me that no matter how bad thing you experience, you should keep your heart pure and dignity, and always fight against unfair rules until you get the freedom. One more important thing I learned from the book is grasp every opportunity to study. Jane read a lot of book during she lived under her aunt abuse, she learned so much in the orphanage. The difference between Jane and others is she never gives up study or the process to enrich her inner world no matter how terrible the outside environment is. She successfully transfers her miserable live to her tenacious soul. All of these made her a thoughtful woman, and that also the reason for Mr. Rochester is attracted by Jane. The second time I read Jane Eyre was during my high school. At that period I was very depressed due to a heavy course load and a sharp competition. In an unexpected chance, I decided read Jane Eyre again. From I opened the book; I could not drop it any more. I finished it in three days. During I read the book, I felt so peaceful and calm. That's exactly what I needed for that period and I had lost this feeling for a long time. Beside my spiritual enjoyment, the book also gives me a strong influence on my value system. Until now, I still strongly believe that true love should build on the respect of each other. That's what Jane Eyre told me. This time I have a deeper understanding on the relationship between Jane Eyre and Edward Fairfax Rochester. At the beginning, Edward is a rich, strong and talented upper class man. But the real of him is a lonely heart, until he met Jane. A lot of women approach him in order of him money, but Jane is totally different. She did not care about him money or his social statue, she care about him just because she loves Edward and she really wants to comfort him from his painful experiences. Edward also loves Jane and appreciates her. He respects Jane and views her as his true friend in soul, he likes to talk with Jane and share his feeling with her. Their love is deep and stable. The ending of the story is not perfect but it's the best ending for Jane. She needn't choose from her love or her majesty. She obtains both of them. In the end, Edward became an old and poor blind man, but Jane still married with him. The only thing changed is they love each other deeper. This ending emphasizes Jane's characteristics as well as the substance of the book, which is the wroth of live should be respect and love. The negative part of Jane Eyre is the writer strength too much on Jane's insistence and independence. But in real world, things may much more complexes and cannot be overcome just by insistence and independence. However, I still believe Jane's characteristics will always shining in all times. Another negative echo for Jane Eyre is the book is not profundity enough. It only tells a story about a woman's life and her love experience, it did not tell enough about the time-background or the class contradiction. But I think that's just the reason that Jane Eyre do not bring too much heaviness to reader but the enjoyable feeling. All in all, I love the novel Jane Eyre. I believe everyone should read it; because it likes a cup of ice water, simple and clean, purify every reader's sprite.

Jane Eyre - An Education in the Art of Sublime Prose By Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Novels can be revered for their intriguing plots, their well-developed and believable characters, their themes/morals, their history lessons, or simply for the beauty of their prose (here defined as their choice of words, metaphors, similes, vocabulary and their sentence structure, which aggregate to enable the reader to experience scenes, thoughts, and emotions as only iconic wording allows). Truly great "prose", defined in the foregoing manner, is virtually non-extant in the world of 2014. Jane Eyre subsumes, cleanses and bathes us in it. When first written, it turned British society quite on its ear, and it continues to sell well to this day. While the plot and themes of Jane Eyre are only average and somewhat predictable, her prose, oh, her prose, is straight from paradise, so moving as to make it almost impossible to put the novel down. With rare exceptions, we can find such prose only in "the classics" and, even there, far from all classics offer truly great prose; greatness comes in many forms and beautiful wording is only one form of literary Elysium. Charlotte Bronte's vocabulary and imagery paint pictures and define feelings that no artist's brush could generate; and her ability to get inside the human mind and bring it into clear vision, via dialogue or the character's thoughts, inspires the reader's veneration. Her characters tend too far in one dimension, but we must forgive that as then thirtyish-Charlotte surely still suffered from a tad of idealism, which in no way diminished the stunning profundity of her characters' thought-processes. Realism predominates nonetheless, as Charlotte Bronte's short life mirrored large parts of those auto-biographically attributed to her similarly Plain Jane-student-governess-teacher, Jane Eyre. As with all great authors, we find them within their characters. Most authors, it has been often asserted, have one central theme which is recurrent in all their works. Having read only one work of Charlotte Bronte's, I cannot so conclude as to her. However, Jane Eyre offers such a central theme: heterosexual love that is based primarily on chemistry (physical appearance) will generally be short-lived, while such love based upon the mind and character of one's mate, and the mental similarities between mates, will last. Logic dictates this, but the hormones of youth consistently ignore this patent truths. Bronte also adds hope for those who are average in appearance ("Plain Jane's", such as the aptly-named Jane, who even becomes an "heir"/Eyre), who finds a Romeo-and-Juliet level of love with her Edward Rochester, and who is even the object of a marriage proposal from a handsome missionary, St. John Rivers, whose name echoes his virtue and positive flow (river) of his efficacy. Mercifully, for herself and her transfixed Reader, Jane makes the prudent choice. (Having found such constant love myself, I can confirm its existence, and, happily for the author, she putatively found it some seven years after she published Jane Eyre, although, sadly, this was only one year before she fell prey to a fatal strain of typhus and dehydration while pregnant, at the then tender age of 39.) Published in 1847 by a poet and authoress incredibly then only 32, Jane Eyre became an overnight sensation and remains a popular classic to this day. It was the first of Charlotte Bronte's several novels, before she died in 1855, at age 39. Writing in the era where novels by women were not acceptable, she wrote under several male-pennames. Initially, she self-published with her similarly savant sisters (Emily and Anne), one of whom, Emily, wrote the ever-popular "Wuthering Heights". Sadly, all three of the famous, polymathic Bronte sisters died in their thirties, as had their mother; yet their legacy is among the greatest in all Western literature. For readers who want to elevate their literary tastes to a new level, Jane Eyre is a perfect place to start. Treat yourself to it; read Jane Eyre; no, don't "read" it; savor it, slowly, and re-read many her arresting passages, lest you miss the latent profundity and subtle beauty and the powers of observation that emanate only from genius. If you do read it, and study and ferment its nuances with assiduity, your mind will soar and grow with Charlotte Bronte. While some found her to be a diminutive, plain, diffident and taciturn scholar in person, whoever she was, she had an abundance to teach us. I, for one, remain in her debt for many hours of intriguing reading filled with incredible insights which have enhanced my ability to see and enjoy the subtle facets of all that life has to offer. BookAWeekMan (leelovett.info)

The story Jane Eyre is a classic romance novel. This story was written in in 1847 by Charlotte Bronte. As you can image the story is very influenced by the social norms of that time. But in essence that is what make the story so believable. Jane Eyre is about a young girl who was orphaned and made to stay with her cruel rich aunt. In Jane's younger years she gets verbally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins. One day Jane fights back and is eventually sent to a boarding school for girls. The life style at the school is harsh and dangerous. The girls living their have very little clothing, food, shelter, and people willing to take care of them. Because of these bad circumstances illness strikes. After that occasion the climate in the school changes to one where the girls are provided for. Jane is able to get a wonderful education, and when she graduates she decides to become a governess. She puts an add out in the paper and is contacted by Mrs. Fairfax to become the governess to Adele Varnes. Jane goes to live at Thornfield Manner. She spends many happy months there. Until Mr. Rochester comes to visit. He is Jane's employer and the guardian of Adele. Mr. Rochester confuses Jane in ways that no one every has. Love sparks between the two of them. But this love is tested by secrets from Mr. Rochesters past! I found all of the characters in this story to be believable and realistic. They seemed like people you would meet on the street. Well, minus the fact that they have the mannerism of someone from the 1800s. In particular I love Jane Eyre. She is a strong woman. That any female could relate to. It surprised me when I first read the book that she was so strong, since this book was both written in the 1800s and took place there. Also, the emotions that Jane has are very realistic. While she was at the girls boarding school she lost a friend and it felt really real when it happened. I will admit to shedding a few tears when it happened. I think that the bases for a good book is if the story can touch the reader and for me this book did. I did really like the story. The plot and characters where both interesting and well thought out. At times the book was very slow and my interest was lost. It could get a little boring if you don't have a lot of patience and determination. My favorite part of the book was the ending. The ending was happy and a good solution to both Jane and Mr. Rochester's problems. It left me satisfied and I didn't have anymore questions. My least part of the book was the middle. There wasn't enough change in the story and Jane was too caught up in her own head. There needed to be more action there or even a new character. The middle just didn't do it for me. I would recommend this story to someone else. Probably an adult or a teenager. Like I said before you need a lot of patience and determination to get through the book. So, for anyone under the age of 15 it would be a very difficult read. To really enjoy this book you have to love history and a good romance. To really get this book you have to understand the motivations of people in the mid 1800s. It really wouldn't make to much sense to someone who doesn't have a grasp on history. I would give this book 4.5. The plot and characters in this story are amazing. However the plot sometimes is somewhat slow. Overall I believe that Charlotte Bronte did a wonderful job writing this book.

Jane Eyre is a young girl when both of her parents die and her father makes his sister promise to take care of her. The sister hates this task and treats Jane poorly. Despite this abuse, Jane keeps her self respect and only responds back when she is accused of lying. The sister finally sends her off to a church school run by an irresponsible, greedy man who deprives the children until he is found out and kinder leaders are found. Jane is a star pupil and stays on as an instructor. Throughout all this, Jane has no experience of the outside and eventually decides to advertise for a governess position. She is hired immediately, she 5hinks by an older woman, but in reality by an exceedingly strong willed, impetuous, irritable man, Mr. Rochester. Jane is plain, but has a great mind and stands up to abuse. Mr. Rochester is "an ugly man" but very vigorous and intelligent. Jane falls in love with him, despite his constantly testing her , and it is apparent that he loves her, although it is some time before his love is revealed. He asks her to marry him, but on 5heir wedding day it is revealed that he has a wife - a wildly insane woman who has tried to kill him several times and who must be kept locked up. Rochester wants Jane to move with him to another country anyway, but she refuses and at great cost to her, flees with no money or prospects. She ends up with a nice family who turn out to be her cousins, her uncle's children. 5he brother is a fanatic Christian who wants to go to India and take Jane along as a wife, but really a slave to his ambition. Jane refuses, learns she has come into an inheritance, and goes to Rochester's house where she finds 5he crazy wife has tried to kill hinand he is blinded. She goes to him, they are reconciled, marrie, and live happily ever after.

I loved this book ...would talk about it to my friends.. I would start reading and the time would pass so quickly...thank for being such a beautiful writer..I felt as tho I was actually living the part with Jane...(silly me)...thanks again 😎

The book that got me back into reading. I absolutely ADORED this novel. It had me hooked - I read it in like 3 days!!

After several weeks I have just finished the 1847 novel JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte. Loosely based on the Cinderella fairytale, popular at the time, it provides a heady offering of soaring language, complex characters, epic adventure, and an intimate entry into a world very far from our own, yet one from which we come. Yes, it has dated some, but a generous reader will put that aside for the novel's abundant riches of elevated thought, challenging syntax, operatic structure, and wry humor. Very interestingly, too, Wikipedia tells us, "The novel revolutionized prose fiction, being the first to focus on the moral and spiritual development of its protagonist through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are coloured by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers such as Marcel Proust and James Joyce.'" The novel was ahead of its time in other ways too. Jane's fiercely independent character frames the whole and allows the novel to approach with freshness and dignity the universal topics of class, sexuality, religion, wealth disparity, self-control, restraint, and feminism. JANE EYRE is widely considered one of the greatest novels in the English language. I am very happy I read it. You will be too. -- CHUCK BAUER, 2025 "I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give." —Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Some spoilers are inevitable below, if you don't already know the basic plot. As part of a new series of Goodreads challenges, it was required of me to read Jane Eyre, and I wasn't too thrilled. I've started it before and never penetrated too far. But it was in exchange for the other person watching half of Firefly (it's a shared challenge - two of us read a book apiece in exchange for all the episodes), so ... I will do a great deal for Mal Reynolds, I said. I have a paperback, somewhere, but wound up reading it via literature.org for some reason - where, I should warn, there are a great many typos, and a startling use of all caps where I believe the original uses italics. It's odd to see Mr. Rochester exclaim in the manner of a web post. I was surprised at how very much I enjoyed this. The language has proven a barrier in the couple of times I've started it in the past - no patience for it, or something. But this time having to read it out of Browncoat devotion combined with the right mood and receptivity, and I clicked with it. The sense of humor of Jane and therefore of Charlotte Brontë was a wonderful surprise; there was a snark and sarcasm and a touch of simple silliness which for some reason I never suspected in either Brontë or book. My prejudgment of the book was purely as a girl's dark and Gothic "tale of woe", built with archaic language - and that is a big part of it, yes. (After all, Helen at fourteen is given lines like "she gives me my meed liberally" and "collecting all she says with assiduity", which simply leaves me wondering if children actually did speak this way in 1847, and my goodness has civilization degenerated if they did). But it's also fun, especially when Jane converses with Mr. Rochester. "Am I hideous, Jane?" "Very, sir: you always were, you know." "St. John dresses well. He is a handsome man: tall, fair, with blue eyes, and a Grecian profile." (Aside.) "Damn him!"-- Jane as a child: Poor little precocious wretch. She's obviously much smarter and sharper and more thoughtful (in terms of giving thought to things more than solicitous; she is that, but not overwhelmingly so) than everyone around her - never an easy situation even for someone with a sweet disposition. Jane does not have a sweet disposition. This is undoubtedly due in part to how she's been treated all her life by the Reeds, but she fights fire with fire, no question. She's mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. And that's kind of a surprise. I haven't read so very much 19th century literature, but I have some familiarity with the stuff - and in my limited experience there weren't very many pre-Jane heroines like Jane. I'm thinking of course of Little Nell, the sweet and uncomplaining little orphan of The Old Curiosity Shop, who may or may not be the archetype, and also the much put-upon Fanny Price. Jane Eyre ain't no Little Nell. In fact what just struck me is that she is, in many ways, identical to the pre-Hogwarts Harry Potter. (Someone somewhere has to have done a study of orphans in young adult literature, a comprehensive list and investigation into why they're so prevalent. I can think of half a dozen immediately - Jane, Harry, Anne, Heidi, Oliver Twist and David Copperfield - and Pip. Seven. And then there are all the poor motherless ones, who are probably double in number.) Jane doesn't blow up her aunt, but she does attack her cousin. Her presence was resented, only tolerated out of duty to the dead, and she was ill-treated by everyone in the house to one degree or another, particularly by her male cousin. School came as a surprising solace - at least I was surprised, because again the impression I had formed was a terrible one, all Snape and no Gryffindor. And it actually wasn't. Even at its worst it was well-intentioned and there were positives; once it received reforming attention it improved drastically. It is in some ways so very much a product of its time, with its solid Christianity and its xenophobia ("a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects") - but Jane is a creature of the book's future. Mr. Rochester was incorrect: Jane was not a fairy. She was a time traveler. (Now I want to write that version. Never mind Jane Slayr, this is better.) She is independent, or wants very badly to be, and she is strong in ways women are not expected nor really desired to be in 1847. She has wings, and wants to spread them; the horizon line is too confining for her. And somehow it feels very modern that she is uncertain of her footing when people are kind to her, that she is in some ways more comfortable with rudeness, and can stand up for herself quite well in its face. At this remove, without a lot of research, I don't know if the Gothic themes in this book would have been something its contemporary audience would have been familiar with; my impression is that they would. The "madwoman in the attic" was apparently a time-worn plot device even then. In a way it was more fun reading it with a fair idea of the ending - even though I've never read it before I knew much of the plot. Even knowing the spoilers, it had some deliciously creepy moments, and Jane never succumbed to the usual behaviors of the swoon-prone Gothic heroine. She acquitted herself quite well.

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Trama: Dopo un'infanzia difficile, di povertà e di privazioni, la giovane Jane trova la via del riscatto: si procura un lavoro come istruttrice presso la casa di un ricco gentiluomo, il signor Rochester. I due iniziano a conoscersi, si parlano, si confrontano e imparano a rispettarsi. Dal rispetto nasce l'amore e la possibilità per Jane di una vita serena. ma proprio quando un futuro meraviglioso appare vicino, viene alla luce una terribile verità, quasi a dimostrare che Jane non può essere felice, non può avere l'amore, non può sfuggire al suo destino. Rochester sembra celare un tremendo segreto: una presenza minacciosa si aggira infatti nelle soffitte del suo tetro palazzo. E’ un libro piacevole, che si legge tutto d’un fiato. La storia è avvincente, ma non è una favola, potrebbe essere benissimo una storia vera, poichè non termina con un finale scontato o completamente felice. E’ un libro che ricalca perfettamente la vita dell’epoca, immortalandola in un ritratto eterno. Citazione: “In genere si suppone che le donne siano molto calme; ma le donne hanno gli stessi sentimenti degli uomini: hanno bisogno di esercitare le loro facoltà e di una palestra per i loro sforzi, al pari dei loro fratelli; soffrono per una costrizione troppo rigida, per un troppo completo ristagno esattamente come soffrirebbero gli uomini; ed è segno di ristrettezza mentale sostenere che queste creature privilegiate dovrebbero limitarsi a infornar sformati, far la calza, suonare il piano e ricamar borsette. E’ stupido condannarle e prendersi gioco di loro se cercano di fare e di imparare più di quanto il costume abbia stabilito necessario per il loro sesso.”

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5+ stars & 9/10 hearts. I LOVED this book. Wow. I did not expect to love it so much! I read it several times as a kid and was profoundly impacted by the setting and storyline. Rereading it as an adult, I was impacted by the themes, messages, and characters. Jane Eyre is often seen as a dark book. I, instead, found it very beautiful and hopeful. I loved Jane. She was so wise and strong and loving. Really, she became one of my favourite female characters ever. Her story is so sad and yet it is hopeful too. I would love to be a Jane—so willing to help, so eager to love, so strong in trial, so full of faith. The way she combats suicide and depression, grief and pain, pressure and cruelty to live the life she knows God wants for her, is wonderfully inspiring. Mr. Rochester was another character I loved. I related to his weakness and his desire to do good but his lack of willingness to try to be good. After all, he had a good heart. He could have done any number of things to the woman he was chained with and yet he did do her the best he could—as he thought. I loved seeing his redemption arc so much. And as a man, he was just a very entertaining, fascinating, interesting person…. St. John I strongly disliked. What a hypocritical, supercilious Pharisee. He was a “good” man and yet he was not a good man. He was certain that he and he alone was right. He even tried to play God with Jane. If she had obeyed him, she would have killed herself (no use at all to the Lord) and have run right by her true calling. And he was cruel and harsh to her—while pretending to be as merciful and long-suffering as Christ Jesus. I couldn’t stand St. John. Yet his sisters were lovely! The plot was fascinating. Twisty and unexpected all the way to the end, and so varied—from the luxurious but abusive Reed home to Lowood, first cold and cruel, then warm and nurturing; from Thornfield Hall, so dark and gloomy, haunted by a sinister secret, yet blossoming with love and happiness; to the moors, stern and beautiful, and the little village, simple and hearty… and then, the ending place—damp, lonely, and full of human joy. The messages are wonderful—so many reminders about the seriousness of marriage; about not putting up idols in your heart instead of God; about being yourself but in a holy, temperate way; about true charity, about the foolishness of ranks and caste; about the meaning of true love… While there is sadness and ugliness presented in this book, and Brontë does not shy away from portraying sin (see content list below), everything was well handled and was only used to make redemption and Light stand out. The writing style is simply brilliant and the humour excellent; the other characters are all so alive and varied and interesting; the setting is fascinating and so well detailed… it’s a simply beautiful book with a really beautiful message. Content: drinking; smoking; kissing, touching, hugging, between Jane & Mr. R. before engagement; Mr. R. had many mistresses & an illegitimate child; he tries to get Jane to live with him without being married; attempted bigamy; some language; some theology I don’t necessarily agree with. Recommended age: 18+ A Favourite Quote: “I hold another creed … in which I delight, and to which I cling: for it extends hope to all: it makes Eternity a rest—a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last: with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low: I live in calm, looking to the end.” A Favourite Beautiful Quote: “I saw the fascination of the locality. I felt the consecration of its loneliness: my eye feasted on the outline of swell and sweep—on the wild colouring communicated to ridge and dell by moss, by heath-bell, by flower-sprinkled turf, by brilliant bracken, and mellow granite crag. These details were just to me what they were to them—so many pure and sweet sources of pleasure. The strong blast and the soft breeze; the rough and the halcyon day; the hours of sunrise and sunset; the moonlight and the clouded night, developed for me, in these regions, the same attraction as for them—wound round my faculties the same spell that entranced theirs.” A Favourite Humorous Quote: “‘What age were you when you went to Lowood?’ “‘About ten.’ “‘And you stayed there eight years: you are now, then, eighteen?’ “I assented. “‘Arithmetic, you see, is useful; without its aid, I should hardly have been able to guess your age.’”

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