Defend that Jane Eyre is a fairy tale.

Illustrate your answer with fairy-tale

conventions and situations found in Charlotte Brontë’s novel. Choose Cinderella or
Bluebeard: compare one of these two tales with one episode from Jane Eyre’s life.

Although in my opinion, Jane's ‘autobiography’ is far from being considered, or

having fairy-tale elements that serve as a substrate for the development of the plot, it
can be seen, as suggested in the question, as a ‘collage’ of fairy tales which have been
ingeniously overlaid by Brontë, as a means for her to better take us through what is the
pilgrimage of a girl from her beginnings as an orphan to a happy marriage. In fact, Mr.
Rochester comments, on seeing the protagonist for the first time, that Jane seemed to
“come from another world”, especially one of fairy tales. In this sense, one can identify
a series of episodes where the parallels with different fairy tales, even their film
adaptations, are more than obvious.
A key moment to understand this comparison occurs at the beginning of the
novel, in Gateshead, the home of the Reeds. Jane, in her situation as an orphan, is
taken in by her aunt. Jane is presented to us as a young Cinderella, employed as a
maid, to clean the rooms and even to dust the chairs. As with the young Cinderella,
Jane is subjected to daily reprimands and is persecuted by ‘odious step-siblings’
(although in Jane Eyre there is an extra one, John Reed) and by a ‘stepmother’ who
despises her unabashedly.
Later, as a governess, when Jane finds Mr. Rochester in his Thornfield Hall
mansion, she is placed in a position similar to Beauty in Madame Leprince de
Beaumont's story, alongside a sullen-looking man described as a lion who lives in a
house with "a corridor in some Bluebeard's Castle" (Chapter XI). The latter reference
immediately reminds us of another fairy tale, for Thornfield Hall contains a secluded
forbidden chamber where Mr. Rochester keeps his estranged wife hidden, perfectly
recognizable to readers of Charles Perrault's Bluebeard. The characteristics present in
the Gothic novels of the time is here framed within the guise of fairy tales. Even, if we
are to expand on this idea, the resource of the secret room is used in the film
adaptation of The Beauty and the Beast (Disney), which is where the Beast has hidden
the rose that would seal his fate.
 By the end of the novel, after all the vicissitudes experienced by the young
heroine, we are presented to a 'happy ending.' The final chapter even serves as an
equivalent to a '…and they lived happily ever after,' common in all fairytale stories.