sdasdasdsdaJane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, describes the growth of a young, unstable girl into a

spiritually mature woman. The character, Jane, encounters key situations in which her morale and ethics
are challenged, along with her faith in God and the trust in her own self. The challenges she faces include
societys class system, her search for romance and true love, and the male supremacy in her culture.

In the novel, Jane is scarred as a young child by the death of her parents. In Victorian societys class
system, she is placed next to slaves and beggars. According to her cousin, John Reed, in the early
chapters of the novel, she has no business to read our books, and being a dependent, she ought to
beg, and not to live here with gentlemans children. These early words foreshadow the oppression of
Jane throughout the rest of her life. She is viewed as a low, poor person and is not seen as the individual
woman she is. Jane is sent to Lowood, a boarding school for orphaned girls, where even there, a sub-
class system was set to distinguish the head of the school from the lowly school children. Here at this
school Jane begins to realize that she despises the routines set by the school workers, but soon begins to
excel and step out of the boundaries of her class system. Charlotte Bronte used Jane as a model to show
how a bright, artistic, and intellectual person can be undermined and overlooked because of their class
system.

During the course Jane Eyres life, she comes across numerous men who treat her in different manners;
all affecting her outward look on men and the inward look on herself. A recurring them in the novel is
marriage for reasons outside of love. St. John Rivers, a priest, wants to marry Jane for religious image
reasons, while Mr. Rochester married Bertha Mason solely for money. But Jane merely wants to know
love, so that she can know...

The outline of this story

Jane Eyre, the main character, is an orphan who is passed into the care of Mrs. Reed, the wife of her
mothers brother. After years of neglect and abuse, she is sent to a boarding school Lowood at a tender
age of ten, where she received good education under severe conditions. After her graduation, she gets a
position as a governess at Thornfield Hall where she falls in love with her employer, Mr. Edward
Rochester. At their wedding ceremony, Jane gets to know that Rochester has a wife, a raving maniac
locked in the house. In shock and grief, Jane leaves Thornfield quietly. Penniless and starving, she is
saved and befriended by St.John Rivers and his two sisters, who turn out to be her cousins. St.John
admires Jane and asks her to be his wife and assistant in his religious service. Feeling that she still
cherishes a deep love for Rochester, who seems calling her in her dream, Jane refuses his proposal and
returns to Thornfield, only to find it a blackened ruin. Mr. Rochester is blinded and lost a hand when he
tries to rescue his mad wife, who sets the house on fair. Jane goes to him at once and there they get
married. Two years later, Rochesters sight begins to return in one eye, and he sees their first child in
person.
harlotte Bront was born in Yorkshire, England on April 21, 1816 to Maria Branwell and Patrick Bront.
Because Charlottes mother died when Charlotte was five years old, Charlottes aunt, a devout
Methodist, helped her brother-in-law raise his children. In 1824 Charlotte and three of her sisters
Maria, Elizabeth, and Emilywere sent to Cowan Bridge, a school for clergymens daughters. When an
outbreak of tuberculosis killed Maria and Elizabeth, Charlotte and Emily were brought home. Several
years later, Charlotte returned to school, this time in Roe Head, England. She became a teacher at the
school in 1835 but decided after several years to become a private governess instead. She was hired to
live with and tutor the children of the wealthy Sidgewick family in 1839, but the job was amisery to her
and she soon left it. Once Charlotte recognized that her dream of starting her own school was not
immediately realizable, however, she returned to working as a governess, this time for a different family.
Finding herself equally disappointed with governess work the second time around, Charlotte recruited
her sisters to join her in more serious preparation for the establishment of a school.Although the
Bronts school was unsuccessful, their literary projects flourished. At a young age, the children created
a fictional world they named Angria, and their many stories, poems, andplays were early predictors of
shared writing talent that eventually led Emily, Anne, and Charlotte to careers as novelists. As adults,
Charlotte suggested that she, Anne, and Emily collaborate on a book of poems. The three sisters
published under male pseudonyms: Charlottes was Currer Bell, while Emily and Anne wrote as Ellis and
Acton Bell, respectively. When the poetry volume received little public notice, the sisters decided to
work on separate novels but retained the same pseudonyms. Anne and Emily produced their
masterpieces in 1847, but Charlottes first book,The Professor,never found a willing publisher during her
lifetime. Charlotte wroteJane Eyrelater that year. The book, a critique of Victorian assumptions about
gender and social class, became one of the most successful novels of its era, both critically and
commercially.Autobiographical elements are recognizable throughoutJane Eyre. Janesexperience at
Lowood School, where her dearest friend dies of tuberculosis, recalls the death of Charlottes sisters at
Cowan Bridge. The hypocritical religious fervor of the headmaster, Mr. Brocklehurst, is basedin part on
that of the Reverend Carus Wilson, the Evangelical minister who ran Cowan Bridge. Charlotte took
revenge upon the school that treated her so poorly by using it as the basis for the fictional Lowood.
Janes friendHelen Burnss tragic death from tuberculosis recalls the deaths of two of Charlottes sisters,
Maria and Elizabeth, who succumbed to the same disease during their time at Cowan Bridge.
Additionally, John Reeds decline into alcoholism and dissolution is most likely modeled upon the life of
Charlotte Bronts brother Branwell, who slid into opium and alcohol addictions in the years preceding
his death. Finally, like Charlotte, Jane becomes a governessa neutral vantage point from which to
observe and describe the oppressive social ideas and practices of nineteenth-century Victorian
society.The plot ofJane Eyrefollows the form of a Bildungsroman, which is a novel that tells the story of a
childs maturation and focuses on the emotions and experiences that accompany and incite his or her
growth to adulthood. InJane Eyre,there are five distinct stages of development, each linked to a
particular place: Janes childhood at Gateshead, her education at the Lowood School, her time as Adles
governess at Thornfield, her time with the Rivers family at Morton and at Marsh End (also called Moor
House), and her reunion with and marriage to Rochester at Ferndean. From these experiences, Jane
becomes the mature woman who narrates the novel retrospectively.But the Bildungsroman plot ofJane
Eyre,and the books element of social criticism, are filtered through a third literary traditionthat of the
Gothic horror story. Like the Bildungsroman, the Gothic genre originated in Germany. It became popular
in England in the late eighteenth century, and it generally describes supernatural experiences, remote
landscapes, and mysterious occurrences, all of which are intended to create an atmosphere of suspense
and fear. Janes encounters withghosts, dark secrets, and sinister plots adda potent and lingering sense
of fantasy and mystery to the novel.After the success ofJane Eyre,Charlotte revealed her identity to her
publisher and went on to write several other novels, mostnotablyShirleyin 1849. In the years that
followed, she became a respected member of Londons literary set. But the deaths of siblings Emily and
Branwell in 1848, and of Anne in 1849, left her feeling dejected and emotionally isolated. In 1854,she
wed the Reverend Arthur Nicholls, despite the fact that she did not love him. She died of pneumonia,
while pregnant, the following year.

Charlotte Bront may have created the character of Jane Eyre as a means of coming to terms with
elements of her own life. Much evidence suggests that Bront, too, struggled to find a balance between
love and freedom and to find others who understood her. At many points in the book, Jane voices the
authors then-radicalopinions on religion, social class, and gender.

There are some strong personal autobiographical elements in the novel Jane Eyre by charlotte Bronte.
In order to identify the autobiographical elements in the novel, we should keep mind some of the
manifaests and events of her own life.Charlotte Bronte had two sisters and a brother . she was elder
sister.she had to take charge of Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte and Branwell.she felt compelled to take their
authorship for their family circumstances. Branwell was their only young brother. He could not do
nothing to help his sisters well in life financially. Charlott lost two of her sisters. Both of them received
premature death. charlot Bronte and Emily had tried to earm their livelihood. The had to work as a
teacher and governess. But they had found themselves most miserable in both . Neither life as teacher
nor life as a governess had given any satisfaction to them.Both charlotte and Emily had gone to Brussels
to learn French. They gone spent some time as pupils at a school where charlott had fallen in lovewith
principal. she loved him without receiving anyresponse from him. Another important fact was occurred
in her life. she had stayed for some time at a country house. At the orchard of the house a huge chesnut
grew tree which had been struck by lightening. It had been divided into two. Charlotte Bronte enjoyed
another fact in her life. At the age of nine, he had gone to boarding school.Her experience at the school
was somewhat unhappy.The school was run by religious foundation. From this school , she had been
withdrawn after the death of her two sisters who had been studying there.Jane Eyre in the novel is
similar like Charlott Bronte physically. Charlott herself was a plain looking woman. she was as small as
the heroine , Jane Eyre in the novel. she wants to show that a heroine could be an interesting person
without being beautiful. she had read at the religious charitable school. she had her experience as a
governess. All her experiences have been transferred to Janes life in Jane Eyre. charlott had a passionate
desire for a wider life and full experience in her life. It has been given by her upon the heroine of her
novel.Charlotte Bronte noticed the practice of religion inher own time.she found the injustice among the
participationers of religion. It had given a feeling of Bitterness in her.she expressed it in her portrayal of
Mr Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre. In the novel Jane Eyre hates the clergyman, Mr Brocklehurst who is the
director of lowood school.However, there are two other representatives of religion in the novel who are
attractive to Jane Eyre. They are kind and morally attractive. One is Hellen Burns and Another is Miss
Temple.Thornfield Hall is the house of Mr. Rochester in the novel, Jane Eyre. It is the similar to the
countryhouse of charlotte Bronte. There is an orchard at Thorfield Hall. There also grew a huge chesnut
tree. The tree is struck by lightening too. The same happend to the country house of charlottHelen Burns
meet premature death at lowood school. Charlotte Brontes sister, Maria also meets premature death for
the same disease. At moor House, we meet Jane, Diana Rivers and Mary Rivers. Their charecters are
similar to Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte. Tabby is the old servant at Moor House. He
had been a servant of the Bronte family.To conclude, we can say that we have mentioned many personal
elements of Bronte family from her novel, Jane Eyre. But it is not all.

Jane Eyre as a Semi-Autobiographical Work Charlotte Bronte was born in Yorkshire, England; Jane Eyre is
also English. From the beginning of Jane Eyre, this novel is already starting off as an autobiography. The
Beginning. Family The family aspect of"Jane Eyre" does not coincide with Charlotte Bronte's own life.
Jane Eyre is a orphan and, as John Reed would say, "a dependent, mama says; you have no money, your
father left you none; you ought to beg, and not live here with gentleman's children like us." Janehad no
real family until the end of the novel. Both of her parents died when he was very young; however, even
though Bronte was notan orphan, he mother did die of cancer whenshe five. Charlotte is the third of six
children.Schooling By: Sydney Webb Both girls went to school at young ages. At age eight, Charlotte was
sent off to a horrid school with three of her sisters. The school's name is Clergy Daughter's School, which
was filledwith disease and a death trap for the young girls who were sent there. Jane was sent to
Lowood Institution at the age of ten. Bronte depicts Lowood the same way her school was. "A keen
north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bed-room windows all night long, had made us
shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice." The poor conditions of the school could
easily lead to an outbreak of disease. Close People Dying Charlotte had to somehow come to terms with
her mother's death at age five. After such a traumatic experience, she had to go through a couple more
deaths in her family: her sisters, Maria and Elizabeth. The poor conditions at Clergy Daughter's School
caused an outbreak of tuberculosis to infect the students. Charlotte and her sisters were taken out of the
school by their father; however, it was too late for Maria and Elizabeth. The two young girls died of
tuberculosis in June of 1825. The deaths of Charlotte's sisters is mirrored in "Jane Eyre."Helen Burns,
Jane's first friend at Lowood, becomes sick during the book. While Helen is taking her last breathes, she
tells Jane "I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear thatI am dead you must be sure and not grieve."
Bronte could be expressing what she would have wanted her sisters to say to her before they passed
away. Helen also died of consumption, just like Bronte's sisters did. The painful event in Charlotte's life
has beenretold "Jane Eyre." Governesses Both Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte became governesses after
they finished school. Charlotte did not like being a governess and never worked anywhere for longer
than nine months. Jane only worked as a governess for one house, Thornfield. The class they were both
in gave them little options for work, also they were both women. Jane become a governess because she
was bored with being a school teacher; Charlotte became a governess because she needed tohelp
support Emily's schooling. School Teachers At the age of sixteen, Jane becomes a teacher at Lowood;
however, by the age of eighteen, she becomes bored with the routine of a school teacher. Charlotte and
her sisters started their own school, which was a failure. Both women enjoyed teaching, but it wasn't
their passion.Jane wanted to do something different and Charlotte wanted to write. Marriage Charlotte
never fell in love or found the only man for her; instead, she married her father'scurate, Arthur Bell
Nicholls. She settled for a man she barely knew and never had the ideal marriage. Jane, on the other
hand, found the man she loved, even though it took a while for the marriage to happen. After months
apart, Jane finally returned to Thornfield and married Rochester. Although Rochester is not classically
beautiful Jane finds him the most attractive man, describing him as " My master's colorless, olive face,
square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth,--all
energy, decision, will,--were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me."
Bronte could be writing out how she would have wanted her life to end up, even though she was not
married at the time she wrote the novel.