Jane+Eyre


 * Title: Jane Eyre**
 * Author: Charlotte Bronte**
 * Date of Publication:1847**
 * Literary Period: Victorian**
 * Genre: Gothic**


 * Describe the setting and then explain the relevance of the setting.**
 * Gateshead: This is Jane's first home. She lives with her Aunt Reed and cousins John, Eliza, and Georgina. Jane is not respected or loved by her so called family at all until the age of ten where she moves.
 * Lowood: This is where the school Jane attends is at and where she eventually begins her teaching career at the age of 18. She is there until the age of 18 and that is where she meets Helen Burns who ultimately does change Jane's life. Although Lowood is a strict boarding school eventually it is what she becomes comfortable in.That is what becomes her home.
 * Thornfield: After Jane decides that she wants to leave Lowood and start her own life she recieves a job offer to teach a little girl, Adele Rochesterr. This is also where she meets the love of her life and her soulmate Mr. Rochester. Thornfield is her home but it takes her a while to realize this, but when she went back to Gateshead to take care of her suffering Aunt Reed she realizes that Thornfield is where she belongs. And when she returns she is loved and welcomed by all the staff and Mr. Rochester as well.
 * Moor House: Well this is also a home like place for her, but this time literally. She stumbles upon this place when she starving and alone. She meets St. John, Diane, and Mary at their home. She made very helpful and other relationships.


 * Themes (These statements should be complete sentences and completely developed ideas)**
 * A person feels at home when the relationships help one feel like that. Blood relationships do not always create a loving and familiar environment. For Jane, even thougth Gateshead had her true relatives, she did not feel at home, but every other destination she was welcomed with open arms and was treated with love and care and those were the places that felt like home to her.
 * Marriage is way to bring together two people or it can also hide one person while the other person controls everything. She has a choice to marry St. John and lose herself. Many victorian women would lose themselves in this holy act of marriage, and forget that even being tied in the holy knot of marriage, a women has all the rights she did before.


 * Plot Summary (Please do not copy and paste. Simply list the high points of the novel) - Consider creating a visual flow chart or graph and posting it here.**
 * Jane's cruel aunt locks her up in the red room and basically holds her hostage in their because of the argument her and her cousin got into. While locked in the room that her uncle died in Jane feels as if there is a ghost and becomes scared and faints.
 * She is sent of to school because that is where she wants to be and her aunts want her out of the house.
 * Lowood is a mixture of experiences for her. She meets Helen Burn who teaches her the true essence of life.
 * Helen Burns dies and so do some other students and that is why the investigation for Lowood begins.
 * Jane finishes her years as a student and continues to teach at Lowood. That is when she gets bored and decides to apply for another job, and that is when she recieves a job to teach a young girl in Thornfield.
 * Jane moves to Thornfield and meets Adele and Mrs. Fairfax, and she begins to teach Adele. She then later meets Mr. Rochester, the father of Adele, unknowingly.
 * Mr. Rochester and Jane get along and like each others company. THe begin to share a bond.
 * Rochester has a party at his house with all these fancy pants people and a girl name Blanche Ingram is there who comes to flirt with Rochester and marry him. He wants to make Jane jealous and in turn tells her that he wants to marry Blanche.
 * Jane becomes jealous
 * Jane cares for Richard Mason who Rochester is a bit disturbed by
 * Mr. Rochester gets stabbed
 * Aunt Reed becomes very very sick so Jane gets called to help out. Her aunt is still a meanie. Georgiana is just a drama queen and Eliza wants to pursue her passion in strict relgion.
 * Aunt Reed dies. Jane goes back to Thornfield. She really understands that she has true emotions and feelings for Rochester and he does too.
 * Rochester proposes to Jane. She says YES
 * Jane and Rochester's wedding is disturbed by Richard Mason, who claims that he is married to his sister
 * Grace Pool is a type of nanny to Bertha, who is crazy. Rochester tells the story of how he was forced to marry Grace.
 * Rochester's father forces him to marry her because of money but later after years of not falling in love with her, he locks her up in Thornfield beecause she is crazy. He goes to Europe as a bachelor. It is Bertha who tears the veil and makes noises.
 * Jane Runs away.


 * Memorable Quotes and their SIGNIFICANCE.**
 * **"I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soult to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure"**
 * **This just shows feminism. She can do it all on her own!!**
 * **"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."**
 * **This is just words to live by. Seems very religious centered.**
 * **"It is your place to be humble and to try to make yourself agreeable to them"**
 * **This is what Jane was told when she lived with her "Family"...so dumb.**


 * Describe the significance of the opening scene.**
 * **Her mean aunt is sitting with her kids and isolates Jane. She tells her that she cannot spend time with them. Jane goes and reads a book which is one thing she actually enjoys. She finds happiness in learning and gaining knowlegde and diving into books.**


 * Describe the significance of the closing scene.**
 * **Jane finds true happinesss in equality and love. It does exist. Marriage has to have equality and understandment. Marriage is an important eveent in ones life if it is equal and strong and full of love.**


 * List importance characters and their significance.**
 * **Jane: She has always been deprived as an young girl. Kind of lonely and really has no family to love her. And even when she leaves her jail she ends up in a terrible environment until things get fixed.**
 * **Helen Burns: She basically helps Jane get her motives in life straight. She is like her guide. She plays a Jesus figure. She is a true friend but dies from a disease. Helen indirectly saves Jane from potentially ruining hers and others lives.**
 * **Aunt Reed: Well she is just a mean ole lady. uh. Dont like her. I mean who gave her the right to be mean to her neice. She does not stay true to her word to her late husband of caring for Jane.**
 * **Mr. Brocklehurst: He is the head of the Lowood School. He is mean and just selfish. He is weird. He lives by a stereotype of how girls should dress and act but is also a hypocrite because his daughters do not look like that image.**
 * **John Reed: Janes mean little cousin. But dies. who cares.**
 * **Georgiana Reed: Vane cousin. All she cares about is how pretty she looks. No other motive in life but to find a husband. Ends up as a "Gold Digger" (Marguerite's words haha..well put)**
 * **Eliza Reed: She has her set beliefs about religion: rigid. No spritual connection and desides to enter a convent to assist her relgious standpoint**
 * **Adele Rochester: Her young student she tutors who Rochester's daughter as well. She is a great influence and role model for her. she educates her into becoming different than a typical victorian women who only cared about looks.**
 * **Mr. Rochester: the guy who she falls in love with. hes weird, I can't really describe him. He changes Jane's life in a weird way.**
 * **Bertha Mason: Rochester's first wife...excuse me, his crazy as he*l type of wife. He locks her up.**
 * **Grace Poole: Bertha's caretakes. She is the creepy lady in the novel who does all the weird laughs and attacks.**
 * **Blanche Inram: She wants to marry Rochester. uh**
 * **St. JOhn Rivers: Jane's cousin. Very Relgious and does not really believe in love much.**
 * **Diane and Mary Rivers: Janes family. Cousins who take her in during her time of need.**