Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is a novel of Charlotte Brontë, published on October 16th, 1847 in England. It has had for summer adapted several times for the cinema.

Complete summary

The history is presented like the biography of Jane Eyre.

First part

Jane, orphan, is initially collected by his/her aunt, Mrs Reed, is held by a made promise with her husband before his death. Jane Eyre is however high as lower than his/her cousins who do not hesitate to maltreat it. Following a strong rebellion near his/her aunt, Jane Eyre, 10 years, is sent in boarding school to Lowood. It made a sincere friend there, Helen Burns, which dies of tuberculosis that it owes with the very bad conditions of the boarding school. This passage is strongly inspired by the experiment of the author. Two of the sisters of Charlotte Brontë indeed died in low age of the bad living conditions in their school, the school of the sisters of Cowan Bridge.
After 8 last years with Lowood - 6 as a coed and 2 as a professor - Jane wants to change life and passes an advertisement in a newspaper to find a station of tutor. Mrs. Fairfax answers him so that it comes to make the education of Adele, protected from Mr. Rochester, 40 years, rich owner of Thornfield-Hall.

Second part

With the wire of the months, the young teacher learns how to know her “Master” (as it often calls it), and the admiration which it has for him is transformed soon into major love. Conscious of the difference at the same time of age and fortune which separates them, it cannot réfréner its feelings, and that even when it thinks that it will marry some another - beautiful and proud one, Ingram miss. However, he teaches him one day that in spite of its different physique, its age and its situation, it is with her that it always gave the preference and that it wants to marry it. Too much happy to accept its happiness, Jane accepts and the weddings prepare. But the day of the marriage, Jane learns in front of the furnace bridge the terrible secrecy from Mr. Rochester. Married in its youth under the influence of his father and his brother to a woman who proved to be insane, it cannot marry another under penalty of bigamy of them. His first wife is, indeed, always alive and saw hidden in the stages of Thornfield-Hall kept by faithful Grace Poole.

Third part

Destroyed, Jane flees in the night to flee temptation to become the illegitimate wife of Mr. Rochester. Without money, she wanders three days lasting in an unknown area before finding refuge, dying, in the house of the Rivers family. She there remains one month and binds friendship with the two young people Mary and Diana, left without fortune after the death of their father. She becomes acquainted also with their brother, Pasteur St-John Rivers. With its request, it finds to him a post of teacher in the village, which enables him to live independently. However, after a few months he discovers his true identity and teaches him that his/her uncle that she forever known died by leaving him a rich person heritage. She discovers at the same time, that Rivers are in fact his/her cousins paternal and that their uncle (and thus it his) disinherited them in his favor after an argument with their father. She is only too happy to finally find a family magnetizes and decides to divide her heritage with her cousins.

Living in the family home with Mary, Diana and St-John, it binds little by little with her cousin who exerts on it a strong influence. He with the vocation to become missionary and proposes to him to accompany it in India and to become his wife. It is not the love which guides its request but its direction of the religious duty and the regard that it has for the courage and the intelligence of Jane. Although testing for St-John only fraternal feelings, it is about to accept. She however wishes to turn over to Thornfield to enquérir itself to become of Mr. Rochester of which she did not have any news in spite of several letters sent.

She finds low only ruin there and learns that the house burned in a fire little time after its departure. It is the alienated woman of Mr. Rochester who put fire at the house, as it had already tried to do it several times. She then died by throwing roof in the middle of the flames. Mr. Rochester, while trying to save it, as well as the other inhabitants of the house, was wounded and lost the sight and one with his hands. He now only lives in a moved back manor. Jane immediately will join it and likes it always as much in spite of its physical aspect even more worrying. As anything any more is not opposed to their union, they marry finally. Thanks to the money of the heritage, Mary and Diana also found to marry. Jane and Mr. Rochester live a happy marriage and this last even partly finds the sight after two years of patience.

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