Jane Eyre (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- First Published: 1847
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1800
- Setting: Northern England
- Principal Characters: Jane Eyre, Mrs. Reed, Bessie Leaven, Edward Rochester, St. John Rivers, Mary, Diana Rivers
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Values, Self-discovery, Class conflict, Love or romance, Gender roles, Superstition, Nineteenth century, Blindness or blind persons, Marriage, Mistaken or secret identity, Missions or missionaries, Individuality, God, Emotions, Mental illness, Ministry or ministers, England or English people, Upper classes, Death or dying, Inheritance or succession, Faith, Orphans or orphanages, Fire, Victorian era or Victorianism, Shyness
- Locales: England
The Story:
Jane Eyre was an orphan whose parents had died when she was a baby, at which time she had passed into the care of Mrs. Reed of Gateshead Hall. Mrs. Reed’s husband, now dead, had been the brother of Jane Eyre’s mother; on his deathbed, he had directed his wife to look after the orphan as after her own three children. At Gateshead Hall, Jane knew ten years of neglect and abuse. One day, a cousin knocked her to the floor. When she fought back, Mrs. Reed punished her by sending her to the gloomy room where Mr. Reed had died. There Jane lost consciousness, and the...
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