Jane Eyre PLOT CHARACTERS METHOD BRIEF

TEXT: Jane Eyre CHARACTERS METHOD ENABLING PLOT LANGUAGE Gateshead: Jane Eyre, aged 10 years old, lives unhappily at Gateshead with her widowed Aunt Reed and cousins Eliza, John and Georgiana. When Jane has a fight with John, she is punished by being confined to the sinister CHARACTER NAME / Charactonym: When a name of a ‘red‐room’. After a violent protest and fainting fit, she is removed from fictional character indicates their Gateshead to Lowood School. Jane accuses Mrs Reed of cruelty and FORM LANGUAGE STRUCTURE personality traits or characteristics. deceitfulness, voicing her passion at injustice. BRIEF BIO. Lowood School: Jane endures much physical hardship and psychological torment, but she makes friends with the kind Miss Temple, and Helen Burns, a sympathetic and Mr Rochester: At first, he is Jane’s Jane Eyre: the story’s narrator, who religious girl. Brocklehurst punishes and humiliates Jane. However, Miss Temple employer, twenty years her senior. He is Linear structure, with defends Jane. narrates the novel as a grown‐up wealthy and powerful, yet hides a secret Eponymous: The character named Helen contracts consumption and dies. An inquiry into the typhus outbreak at woman – looking back at her past, past. He falls for Jane and proposes to Bildungsroman Metaphor elements of proleptic in the title of the novel. Lowood leads to an improved school; Jane completes two years as a teacher there. including her childhood. From this her. Eventually he marries Jane, and she narrative Aged 18 she applies to Mrs Fairfax for a governess post at Thornfield Hall. retrospective position, she describes herself as his equal. sometimes observes the differences between her child self and her adult Thornfield Hall: Once working as a governess, Jane walks alone in the grounds of self. Mrs Reed: Jane’s Aunt allows Jane to live Thornfield and frequently hears the laughter of Grace Poole, a servant. On a Jane is: an orphan, an imaginative with her and her children, after midsummer evening Jane walks in the orchard and encounters Rochester. Prompted dreamer, a passionate rebel, promising this to ‐ her husband ‐ Jane’s First person Feminist: Ideas, practices and by deception, Jane reveals her love for Rochester. Edward proposes to her; she independent and resourceful and Uncle, before he died. Aunt Reed is actions based upon the belief of the accepts. At Jane’s marriage ceremony, Richard Mason intervenes and says that mean‐spirited and sends Jane away to Pathetic fallacy Foreshadowing has a strong sense of morals. equality of women and girls. Rochester is already married to his sister. Rochester admits the truth and reveals the Lowood, knowing it won’t be nice. narration confined Bertha to be a mad woman. Jane’s hopes are destroyed. Before her death, Jane forgives her Aunt. Moor House at Marsh End: Jane leaves Thornfield with nothing, and Mr Brockleshurst: the strictly religious wanders the fields of Marsh End and begs due to hunger. She is admitted Bertha Mason: Rochester’s ‘mad’ wife missionary and owner of Lowood School. Gothic: A genre characterised by to Moor House by St John, a young clergyman. He and his sisters, Diana who is contained in his attic for some Seen as a hypocrite of the cruellest kind, Homodiegetic Changes in common stylistic features, and Mary, care for her until she revives. Later, St John discovers that the time. Her presence in the house is felt due to the contrast between the Juxtaposition when mysterious events occur. She including: haunted settings, Rivers are Jane’s cousins: their uncle is dead and Jane has inherited 20,000 treatment of his own family and of the eventually burns down Thornfield Hall. narrator character supernatural events and characters. pounds and is now independent. She shares the money equally between poor and vulnerable pupils at Lowood. them. Fern Dean: Jane is inspired to seek out Rochester; she leaves and finds St. John Rivers: A young, handsome Miss Temple: The superintendent of Thornfield in burnt ruins. She learns from the innkeeper that Bertha burnt clergyman, who takes Jane in to live with Motif: A recurring image, word or Lowood School in Jane’s time as a it down, that she is dead, and Rochester is blinded and crippled. Rochester his sisters. Later, they discover that they idea which may establish mood, student / teacher there. A benevolent are cousins. He is initially portrayed as Sensory Imagery apologises for his wrongs and proposes again: she accepts. They are woman who becomes a mother figure Tone Tension create symbolic unity and support noble and kind, but is gradually revealed married; Adele is sent to a school. The narrative finishes ten years in to for Jane. the theme. Jane’s happy marriage. to be controlling and destructive. Protagonist: The central character who undertakes the actions in the KEY THEMES EXPLORED VICTORIAN CONTEXT AO1 AO2 AO3 narrative. Marriage was a necessity to most women in Victorian Treatment of England. A working‐class woman’s wage was below Satire: A cultural form of criticism of subsistence level: she could not live on her income alone. political and social ideas, Marriage Women typically stayed in the family home until they were sometimes humorous. women married. Personal Analysis of Understanding Wealthy men enjoyed the best legal rights. Women, especially working‐class Brönte felt very sure that her work of the Social class: groups in society who Self identity + women, were disadvantaged. Once would be dismissed as inferior if it was response + form, may share levels of income, married, women had few legal rights, known to be written by a woman, and so relationship Religion including rights to own property such as she submitted her work to publishers education, cultural or political development houses, their belongings and other under a male pseudonym. textual language + values. valuables. between texts + detail. structure. contexts. The literary 1840s are often characterised as the period of the ‘social Independence problem’ novel, which dwelt upon the living conditions of the working Symbolism: The use of symbols to poor. While Jane Eyre does consider some contemporary issues, the novel communicate and develop ideas or Equality is different, and unusual, in its concerns, with its focus on a middle‐class represent deeper meaning. + dependence woman's identity and her self‐development. .

Load more