Jane Eyre - She is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. Jane is an intelligent, honest, plain physiognomy young girl who is forced to face oppression, inequality and hardship. Despite the fact that, she meets with a series of individuals who
threaten her independence. Jane repeatedly achieves success by asserting herself while she maintains her principles of justice, human dignity, virtue, and ethics. In addition, Jane values intellectual and emotional fulfillment as well as her strong beliefs in genders, social equality that challenges Victorian prejudices against women and the poor.
threaten her independence. Jane repeatedly achieves success by asserting herself while she maintains her principles of justice, human dignity, virtue, and ethics. In addition, Jane values intellectual and emotional fulfillment as well as her strong beliefs in genders, social equality that challenges Victorian prejudices against women and the poor.
Edward Rochester - He is Jane's employer and the master of Thornfield. Edward is a wealthy, passionate man with a dark secret that delivers a lot of the novels suspense. Edward Rochester is unusual, ready to set aside civil manners, propriety and thoughtfulness of social class in order to socialize with Jane honestly and directly. Additionally, he is careless, hasty, and has spent much of his adult life traveling about Europe in an effort to avoid the consequences of his adolescent mistakes. Edward's complications are partly of his own recklessness, yet he is a compassionate individual because of his long sufferings of the results of his early wedlock to Bertha Mason.
St. John Rivers - He served as Jane's supporter along with his sisters Mary and Diana after she runs off from Thornfield, giving her food and shelter. St. John is the minister at Morton, he is very bitter, private, and often in charge in his interactions accompanied by others. St. John serves as a foil character to Edward Rochester because he is entirely isolated form his feelings and loyal to an stern ambition.
Bessie Lee - She is the maid at Gateshead, and is the only woman in Jane's youth who regularly treats her kindly, tells her stories and sings songs for her. Bessie afterwards marries Robert Leaven, the Reed's coachman.
Mrs. Reed - She is Jane's wicked aunt, who raises her at Gateshead Hall up until Jane is sent off to school at age ten. Later in her life, Jane strives to reconcile with her aunt, nevertheless the old woman continues to dislike her. This being that her husband (Mr. Reed) had always loved Jane more then his own children.
Mr. Lloyd - He is the Reed's apothecary, who proposes that Jane be sent away to school. Mr. Lloyd has always been kind to Jane, and has composed a letter to Miss Temple verifying Jane's story about her youth. Thus being that Jane is cleared of Mrs. Reed's accusation that she is a liar.
Georgiana Reed - She is Jane's cousin and one of Mrs. Reed's two daughters. Georgiana treats Jane wickedly when they were children, however later in their lives she makes friends with her cousin and confides in her. Georgiana seeks to elope with a man named Lord Edwin Vere, though her sister, Eliza, notifies Mrs. Reed of the arrangement and sabotages the plan. Following Mrs. Reed's death, Georgiana marries a rich man.
Eliza Reed - She is Jane's cousin and one of Mrs. Reeds two daughters ( along with her sister Georgiana). Eliza commits herself to self-righteously to some extent at the church. She in time goes to a monastery in France where she becomes the Mother Superior.
John Reed - He is Jane's cousin, and is Mrs. Reed's son who is also a brother to Eliza and Georgiana. John treats Jane with horrific brutality during their youth. John later descends into a life of drinking and gambling. He commits suicide halfway through the novel when his mother stops paying his debts for him.
Mr. Brocklehurst - He is the cruel and hypocritical master of the Lowood School. Mr. Brocklehurst preaches a belief of privation, while robbing from the school to sustain his luxurious way of life. After a typhus outbreak sweeps Lowood, Brocklehurt's shady and untruthful practices are brought to awareness and he is therefore publicly disgraced.
Helen Burns - She is Jane's close friend at the Lowood School. Helen under goes her miserable life there with a passive dignity that Jane can't comprehend. Helen dies of consumption in Jane's arms.
Maria Temple - She is a kind teacher ar Lowood, who treats Jane and Helen with regard and compassion. Miss Temple helps remove Jane of Mrs. Reed's accusations against her.
Miss Scatcherd - She is Jane's sour and vicious teacher at Lowood, and acts with particular cruelty towards Helen.
Alice Fairfax - She is the housekeeper at Thornfield Hall. Alice is the first to inform Jane that the peculiar laughter often heard echoing through the hall is, the laughter of Grace Poole - a piece of fiction that Edward Rochester himself often restates.
Bertha Mason - She is Edward Rochester's secret wife, Bertha Mason is formerly beautiful and affluent Creole woman who has became mentally ill, violent, and savage. Bertha lives locked in a confidential room on the third story of Thornfield, plummeting to her death in the flames.
Grace Poole - She is Bertha Mason's keeper at Thornfield, whose drunken recklessness regularly permits Bertha to escape. When Jane first arrived at Thornfield, Mrs. Fairfax assigns to Grace all the evidence of Bertha's felonies.
Adele Varens - She is Jane's student at Thornfield, Adele is an energetic though a little bit pampered child from France. Edward Rochester brought her to Thornfield after her mother, Celine forsaken her. Despite the fact that Celine was once Edward's mistress, he does not consider himself to be Adele's father.
Celine Varens - She is a French opera dancer with whom Edward Rochester, on one time had an affair. Although Edward does not believe Celine's claims that he fathered her daughter Adele, he nevertheless took the girl to England when Celine deserted her. Edward Rochester had cut off his relationship with Celine after learning that Celine was disloyal to him and only attentive to his money.
Sophie - She is Adele's French nurse at Thornfield.
Richard Mason - He is Bertha's brother. During a visit to Thornfield, Richard is wounded by his mentally ill sister. After learning of Edward Rochester's intent to marry Jane, Richard arrives with the solicitor Mr. Briggs in order to prevent the wedding and reveal the truth of Rochester's earlier marriage.
Mr. Briggs - He is John Eyre's attorney, and assists Richard Mason to stop Jane's wedding to Edward Rochester when he acquires knowledge of the existence of Bertha Mason, Edward Rochester's wife. After John Eyre's death, Mr. Briggs looks for Jane in order to give her, her inheritance.
Blanche Ingram - She is a beautiful socialite who detests Jane and aspires to marry Edward Rochester for his money.
Diana Rivers - She is Jane's cousin, and the sister of St. John and Mary. Diana is a kind and smart person, and encourages Jane not to go to India with St. John. She serves as a model for Jane of an intellectually gifted and self-governing woman.
Mary Rivers - She is Jane's cousin, and the sister of St. John and Diana. Mary is a kind and intellectual young woman who is forced to work as a governess after her father loses his wealth. Like her sister, Mary serves as a model for Jane of an independent woman who is able to preserve close relationships with others and a sense of meaning in her life.
Rosamond Oliver - She is the daughter of Mr. Olive, Morton's wealthiest resident. Rosamond gives money to the school in Morton where Jane is employed. Although she is in deep affection with St. John, she becomes betrothed to the wealthy Mr. Granby.
John Eyre - He is Jane's uncle, who passes on his vast fortune of 20,000 pounds to her.
Uncle Reed - He's is Mrs. Reeds late husband. In Jane's childhood she is convinced that she feels the presence of his spirit, because he was always enamoured of Jane and her mother (his sister), Uncle Reed made his wife vow that she would raise Jane as her own child. It was a promise that Mrs. Reed did not keep.
Hannah Rivers - She was the elderly servant at the Moor House. At first Hannah initially refuses to let Jane enter the house because she believed that Jane was a lower-class panhandler.
Mr. Oliver - He is Rosamond's father and is the wealthiest man in Morton. He ventures to use his wealth for the good of the town, particularly in terms of assisting St. John Rivers with his school.
Pilot - He is Edward Rochester's faithful dog. Pilot foreshadows Edwards's presence throughout the novel, appearing immediately before Edward Rochester's fall off his horse. Pilot preserves his loyal and companionship after Edward has lost his eyesight and hand.
John and Mary - They are a married couple who are employed at Thornfield and later on care for Edward Rochester during his recovery at Ferndean.
Robert Leaven - He is the coachman at Gateshead and is Bessie's husband. After the death of John Reed, Robert goes to Thornfield to bring Jane back to Gateshead with him.
Miss Miller - She is one of the teachers at Lowood. Miss Miller greeted Jane on her first coming to the school.
Miss Smith - She is a a teacher at Lowood who teaches the students in sewing.
Madame Pierrot - She is the French instructor at Lowood.
Miss Gryce - She is Jane's roommate and fellow teacher at Lowood.
Alice Wood - She is an orphan who is recruited to assist Jane at the school in Morton.
Mr. Granby - He is a wealthy Morton resident who marries Rosamond.
Jane Elliot - The false name Jane uses when she arrives at the Moor House.