Jane Eyre is the story of a young, orphaned girl who lives with her aunt and cousins, the Reeds, at Gateshead Hall. Mrs. Reed hates Jane and allows her son John to torture the girl, as well as the servants who are constantly reminding Jane that she’s poor and worthless. At the age of ten, Jane rises up against this Mrs. Reed and tells her exactly what she thinks of her. She’s punished by being locked in "the red-room," (the bedroom where her uncle died), and she has a frantic fit when she thinks his her Uncle's ghost is appearing. After this, nobody knows what to do with her, so they send her away to a religious boarding school for orphans which is called Lowood Institute.
At Lowood, which is run by the hypocritical Mr. Brocklehurst, who lives a luxurious life while the students never have enough to eat or warm clothes. However, Jane finds a religious friend, Helen Burns, and a sympathetic teacher, Miss Temple. Under their influence, Jane becomes an excellent student, learning all of the little bits and pieces of culture that made up a lady’s education in Victorian England.Unfortunately, an epidemic of typhus breaks out at the school, and Helen dies. Jane remains at Lowood as a student until she’s sixteen, and then as a teacher until she’s eighteen. When Miss Temple leaves the school to get married, Jane gets a case of wanderlust and arranges to leave the school in addition to become a governess.
The governess job that Jane accepts is to tutor a little French girl, Adèle Varens, at a country house called Thornfield. Jane goes there assuming that she’ll be working for a woman named Mrs. Fairfax, yet Mrs. Fairfax is just the housekeeper. The owner of the house is a mysterious Mr. Rochester, and he's Adèle's guardian. Jane likes Thornfield, although on the third floor, there's a peculiar servant named Grace Poole who works alone and Jane can hear an uncanny laughter coming from a locked room.
One evening when Jane’s out for a stroll, she meets a mysterious man when his horse slips and he falls.– and, of course, this is Mr. Rochester. Jane and Mr. Rochester are immediately interested in each other. She likes the fact that he’s craggy, dark, and rough-looking instead of smooth and classically handsome. She also likes his abrupt, almost rude manners, which she thinks are easier to handle than polite flattery. He likes her unusual strength and spirit as wells he appears to find her almost unworldly; he’s always comparing her to a fairy or an elf or a sprite.
Mr.Rochester quickly learns that he can rely on Jane in a crisis – one evening, Jane finds Mr.Rochester asleep in his bed with all the curtains and bedclothes on fire, and she puts out the flames and rescues him. Jane and Rochester have fascinating conversations in the evenings and everything seems to be going really well…until Mr.Rochester invites a group of his wealthy friends to stay at Thornfield, including the beautiful Blanche Ingram. Mr.Rochester lets Blanche toy with him continually in front of Jane to make her jealous and encourages rumours that he’s going to be engaged to Blanche.
During the weeks-long house get-together, a man named Richard Mason shows up, and Mr.Rochester seems fearful of him. At night, Mason sneaks up to the third floor and gets stabbed and bitten by Grace Poole's own goblin. Rochester asks Jane to look after Richard Mason's wounds in secret while he goes and fetches the doctor. The next morning before the guests find out what happened, Rochester sneaks Mason out of the house.
Before Jane can find out more about the peculiar situation, she recieves a message that her Aunt Reed is very sick and is requesting for her. Jane, forgiving Mrs. Reed for mistreating her when she was a child, proceeds back to take care of her dying aunt. When Jane returns to Thornfield, Blanche and her friends are gone, and Jane registers how attached she is to Mr. Rochester. Although he lets her believe for a little longer that he’s going to marry Blanche, after some time Mr. Rochester stops teasing Jane and proposes to her. She blissfully accepts.
Everything seems to be going great, it's the day of Jane and Mr.Rochester's wedding. It should be the happiest day of Jane's life, but during the church ceremony two men show up claiming that Rochester is already married. Rochester confesses that he is married to another woman, but tries to justify his attempt to marry Jane by taking them all to see his "wife." Mrs. Rochester is Bertha Mason, the "madwoman in the attic" (who's Grace Poole's own goblin) who attempted to burn Mr.Rochester to death in his bed, stabbed and bit her own brother (Richard Mason), and who’s been doing other creepy things at night. Rochester was decieved into marrying Bertha fifteen years ago in Jamaica by his father, who desired him to marry for money and didn't inform him that mental illness ran in Bertha’s family. Mr.Rochester attempted to live with Bertha as husband and wife, but she was too dreadful, so he locked her up at Thornfield with a nursemaid, Grace Poole. For the time being, he voyaged around Europe for ten years striving to forget Bertha and keeping a variety of mistresses. Adèle Varens (Jane's student) is the daughter of one of these mistresses, Celine Varens. Though, she may not be Rochester’s daughter. Eventually he got weary of his way of life and came home to England, in addition with falling in love with Jane.
After justifying all this, Mr.Rochester argues that he’s not in fact married because his relationship with Bertha isn’t a real marriage. The main problem is that he can’t divorce her (because it was pretty hard to get a divorce in the Victorian period, and Bertha’s behavior isn’t grounds for a divorce, since she’s mentally ill and therefore not responsible for her actions). He wants Jane to go and live with him in France, where they can make as if they were to be a married couple and act like husband and wife. Jane refuses to be his next mistress and runs away before she’s tempted to agree.
Jane travels a direction away from Thornfield. She possesses no money, and almost starves to death before being taken in by the Rivers family who live at Moor House near a town called Morton. The Rivers siblings – Diana, Mary, and St. John – are about Jane’s age and well-educated,yet are somewhat poor. They take whole-heartedly to Jane, who has taken an alias as "Jane Elliott" so that Mr. Rochester can’t locate her. Jane wants to earn her keep, so St. John lays out a plan for her to become a governess in a village girls’ school. When Jane’s uncle Mr. Eyre dies and leaves behind his fortune to his niece, it turns out that the Rivers siblings are in fact Jane’s cousins, and she divides her inheritance with the other three.
St. John, who is a clergyman, that wants to be more than Jane’s cousin. He thinks highly of Jane’s work ethic and asks her to marry him, learn Hindustani, and go with him to India on a long-term missionary trip. Jane is enticed because she believes that she’d be good at it and that it would be a fascinaitng life. Regardless, she refuses because she knows that it will be a loveless marriage. To top it off, St. John actually loves a different a girl named Rosamond Oliver, but he won’t let himself permit it because he thinks she would make a inferior wife for a missionary.
Jane put forwards to go to India with him, but just as his cousin and co-worker, not as his wife. St. John doesn't stop and keeps pressuring Jane to marry him. Just as she’s about to give in, she hears Mr. Rochester’s voice calling her name from her conscious from somewhere far away.
The next morning, Jane leaves Moor House and goes back to Thornfield to find out what’s happening with Mr. Rochester. She finds out that Mr. Rochester forage for her everywhere, and when he couldn’t find her, sent everyone else away from the house and shut himself up alone. After this, Bertha set the house on fire one nightfall and burned it to the ground. Mr.Rochester rescued all the servants and tried to save Bertha too, however she committed suicide and he was injured. Currently,Mr.Rochester has lost an eye and a hand and is blind in the remaining eye.
Jane proceeds to Mr. Rochester and offers to take care of him as his nurse or housekeeper. Jane hopes that he'll ask her to marry him – and he does. They have a quiet wedding, and after two years of marriage Rochester slowly but surely gets his sight back. Meanwhile, St. John Rivers goes to India alone and works himself to death there over the course of several years.
At Lowood, which is run by the hypocritical Mr. Brocklehurst, who lives a luxurious life while the students never have enough to eat or warm clothes. However, Jane finds a religious friend, Helen Burns, and a sympathetic teacher, Miss Temple. Under their influence, Jane becomes an excellent student, learning all of the little bits and pieces of culture that made up a lady’s education in Victorian England.Unfortunately, an epidemic of typhus breaks out at the school, and Helen dies. Jane remains at Lowood as a student until she’s sixteen, and then as a teacher until she’s eighteen. When Miss Temple leaves the school to get married, Jane gets a case of wanderlust and arranges to leave the school in addition to become a governess.
The governess job that Jane accepts is to tutor a little French girl, Adèle Varens, at a country house called Thornfield. Jane goes there assuming that she’ll be working for a woman named Mrs. Fairfax, yet Mrs. Fairfax is just the housekeeper. The owner of the house is a mysterious Mr. Rochester, and he's Adèle's guardian. Jane likes Thornfield, although on the third floor, there's a peculiar servant named Grace Poole who works alone and Jane can hear an uncanny laughter coming from a locked room.
One evening when Jane’s out for a stroll, she meets a mysterious man when his horse slips and he falls.– and, of course, this is Mr. Rochester. Jane and Mr. Rochester are immediately interested in each other. She likes the fact that he’s craggy, dark, and rough-looking instead of smooth and classically handsome. She also likes his abrupt, almost rude manners, which she thinks are easier to handle than polite flattery. He likes her unusual strength and spirit as wells he appears to find her almost unworldly; he’s always comparing her to a fairy or an elf or a sprite.
Mr.Rochester quickly learns that he can rely on Jane in a crisis – one evening, Jane finds Mr.Rochester asleep in his bed with all the curtains and bedclothes on fire, and she puts out the flames and rescues him. Jane and Rochester have fascinating conversations in the evenings and everything seems to be going really well…until Mr.Rochester invites a group of his wealthy friends to stay at Thornfield, including the beautiful Blanche Ingram. Mr.Rochester lets Blanche toy with him continually in front of Jane to make her jealous and encourages rumours that he’s going to be engaged to Blanche.
During the weeks-long house get-together, a man named Richard Mason shows up, and Mr.Rochester seems fearful of him. At night, Mason sneaks up to the third floor and gets stabbed and bitten by Grace Poole's own goblin. Rochester asks Jane to look after Richard Mason's wounds in secret while he goes and fetches the doctor. The next morning before the guests find out what happened, Rochester sneaks Mason out of the house.
Before Jane can find out more about the peculiar situation, she recieves a message that her Aunt Reed is very sick and is requesting for her. Jane, forgiving Mrs. Reed for mistreating her when she was a child, proceeds back to take care of her dying aunt. When Jane returns to Thornfield, Blanche and her friends are gone, and Jane registers how attached she is to Mr. Rochester. Although he lets her believe for a little longer that he’s going to marry Blanche, after some time Mr. Rochester stops teasing Jane and proposes to her. She blissfully accepts.
Everything seems to be going great, it's the day of Jane and Mr.Rochester's wedding. It should be the happiest day of Jane's life, but during the church ceremony two men show up claiming that Rochester is already married. Rochester confesses that he is married to another woman, but tries to justify his attempt to marry Jane by taking them all to see his "wife." Mrs. Rochester is Bertha Mason, the "madwoman in the attic" (who's Grace Poole's own goblin) who attempted to burn Mr.Rochester to death in his bed, stabbed and bit her own brother (Richard Mason), and who’s been doing other creepy things at night. Rochester was decieved into marrying Bertha fifteen years ago in Jamaica by his father, who desired him to marry for money and didn't inform him that mental illness ran in Bertha’s family. Mr.Rochester attempted to live with Bertha as husband and wife, but she was too dreadful, so he locked her up at Thornfield with a nursemaid, Grace Poole. For the time being, he voyaged around Europe for ten years striving to forget Bertha and keeping a variety of mistresses. Adèle Varens (Jane's student) is the daughter of one of these mistresses, Celine Varens. Though, she may not be Rochester’s daughter. Eventually he got weary of his way of life and came home to England, in addition with falling in love with Jane.
After justifying all this, Mr.Rochester argues that he’s not in fact married because his relationship with Bertha isn’t a real marriage. The main problem is that he can’t divorce her (because it was pretty hard to get a divorce in the Victorian period, and Bertha’s behavior isn’t grounds for a divorce, since she’s mentally ill and therefore not responsible for her actions). He wants Jane to go and live with him in France, where they can make as if they were to be a married couple and act like husband and wife. Jane refuses to be his next mistress and runs away before she’s tempted to agree.
Jane travels a direction away from Thornfield. She possesses no money, and almost starves to death before being taken in by the Rivers family who live at Moor House near a town called Morton. The Rivers siblings – Diana, Mary, and St. John – are about Jane’s age and well-educated,yet are somewhat poor. They take whole-heartedly to Jane, who has taken an alias as "Jane Elliott" so that Mr. Rochester can’t locate her. Jane wants to earn her keep, so St. John lays out a plan for her to become a governess in a village girls’ school. When Jane’s uncle Mr. Eyre dies and leaves behind his fortune to his niece, it turns out that the Rivers siblings are in fact Jane’s cousins, and she divides her inheritance with the other three.
St. John, who is a clergyman, that wants to be more than Jane’s cousin. He thinks highly of Jane’s work ethic and asks her to marry him, learn Hindustani, and go with him to India on a long-term missionary trip. Jane is enticed because she believes that she’d be good at it and that it would be a fascinaitng life. Regardless, she refuses because she knows that it will be a loveless marriage. To top it off, St. John actually loves a different a girl named Rosamond Oliver, but he won’t let himself permit it because he thinks she would make a inferior wife for a missionary.
Jane put forwards to go to India with him, but just as his cousin and co-worker, not as his wife. St. John doesn't stop and keeps pressuring Jane to marry him. Just as she’s about to give in, she hears Mr. Rochester’s voice calling her name from her conscious from somewhere far away.
The next morning, Jane leaves Moor House and goes back to Thornfield to find out what’s happening with Mr. Rochester. She finds out that Mr. Rochester forage for her everywhere, and when he couldn’t find her, sent everyone else away from the house and shut himself up alone. After this, Bertha set the house on fire one nightfall and burned it to the ground. Mr.Rochester rescued all the servants and tried to save Bertha too, however she committed suicide and he was injured. Currently,Mr.Rochester has lost an eye and a hand and is blind in the remaining eye.
Jane proceeds to Mr. Rochester and offers to take care of him as his nurse or housekeeper. Jane hopes that he'll ask her to marry him – and he does. They have a quiet wedding, and after two years of marriage Rochester slowly but surely gets his sight back. Meanwhile, St. John Rivers goes to India alone and works himself to death there over the course of several years.