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Scarica Jane Eyre, plot, characters... e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JANE EYRE PLOT: Jane is a poor orphan who grew up with her hostile aunt. When she was a child, she was sent to a very strict school, Lowood School, where she was treated without caring. When she became an adult, she becomes a teacher and she decides to accept a job as governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with the owner of the house, Mr. Rochester. During her stay, she is disturbed by strange noises and events. After weeks Mr. Rochester decides to propose to her, she agrees to marry him, but two nights before the wedding she wakes up and sees a scary shadow watching her sleeping and her veil torn in two pieces. The wedding is interrupted by a man who declares that Rochester already has a wife, Bertha Mason, a madwoman he married who lives in the attic of the house. Rochester asks Jane to stay with him, but she leaves and goes to Moor House with her cousins. She meets a religious man, St, John Rivers, who proposes to her, Jane refuses the proposal and one night she hears Rochester’s voice calling her. She retunes to Thornfierd Hall, she finds out thath the house has been destroyed by a fire caused by Bertha who suicides herself downstairs. Mr. Rochester lost his sight and a hand and he lives in Ferndean where Jane visits him and agrees to marry him. When their first child is born he finally recovers his sight. CHARACTERS: Jane Eyre is the protagonist, she is intense, imaginative, passionate, rebellious, independent, she is a very assertive heroine who tries to find her own identity. Jane undergoes many struggles in her life. She speaks with frankness about herself and against male figures. She is moderately plain and she falls in love with a man who is both rich and married to another woman. Mr. Rochester has the equalities of a “Byronic hero”, he is kind and falls in love with Jane's soul and personality rather than her physical appearance. Bertha Mason is described as a monster. She is linked to Jane with a series of parallelism: both suffer imprisonment, they have a romantic relationship avec Rochester and both are marginalized by society. She represents what Jane is afraid of: psychological instability,insecurity inside the home and a desperate need for freedom from domestic routine.