Scarica Trama di Jane Eyre, plot, sintesi e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! PLOT Jane Eyre is the story of an orphaned girl who lives with her aunt and cousins, the Reeds, at Gateshead Hall. Mrs. Reed hates Jane and allows her son John to torment the girl. Even the servants are constantly reminding Jane that she’s poor and worthless. At the age of ten, Jane rises up against this treatment and tells them all exactly what she thinks of them. She’s punished by being locked in the red room, the bedroom where her uncle died, and she has a hysterical attack when she thinks his ghost is appearing. After this, nobody knows what to do with her, so they send her away to a religious school for orphans (Lowood Institute) run by Mr. Brocklehurst. At Lowood, the students never have enough to eat or warm clothes. However, Jane finds a pious friend, Helen Burns, and a sympathetic teacher, Miss Temple. Unfortunately, Helen dies of consumption. Following this tragedy, Brocklehurst is deposed from his position as manager of Lowood, and conditions become more acceptable. Jane quickly becomes a star student, and after years of hard work, an effective teacher. When Miss Temple leaves the school to get married, and Lowood seems different without her. So Jane leaves the school and become a governess. The governess job that Jane accepts is to tutor a little French girl, Adèle Varens, at a country house called Thornfield, near Millcote. Jane goes there thinking that she’ll be working for a woman named Mrs. Fairfax, but Mrs. Fairfax is just the housekeeper; the owner of the house is the mysterious Mr. Rochester. Jane likes Thornfield, except the third floor, where a strange servant named Grace Poole works alone and Jane she hears strange laughter coming from time to time. Mrs. Fairfax claims this is just Grace Poole because of her drinking problem. One evening when Jane’s out for a walk, she meets a mysterious man when his horse slips and he falls, this is Mr. Rochester. Jane and Rochester are immediately interested in each other. Mr Rochester tells her to marry him but when Jane discovers that Mr Rochester is already married (his wife is Bertha Mason, the "madwoman in the attic"), she runs away from that house. She started a new life with the Rivers family, who live at Moor House near a town called Morton. Diana, Mary, and St. John Rivers are about Jane’s age and well-educated, but poor. St. John arranges for her to become the teacher in a village girls’ school. One day Jane receives a letter from her uncle who is dead leaving her his fortune. When it is discovered that the Rivers siblings are actually Jane’s cousins, and she shares her inheritance with the other three. St. John admires Jane’s work ethic and asks her to marry him and go with him to India on a missionary trip, but Jane refuses and decides to go back to her real love, Mr Rochester. When she arrives to the house she sees that all is burnt by the fire and Mr Rochester now lives all alone at Ferndean. There she discovers a powerless and unhappy Rochester. He is blind and has lost a hand during the fire. They claim love each other and decide to marry. They have a weeding and also two children.
