Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, describes the growth of a young, unstable

girl into a spiritually mature woman. The character, Jane, encounters key situations
in which her morale and ethics are challenged, along with her faith in God and the
trust in her own self. The challenges she faces include societys class system, her
search for romance and true love, and the male supremacy in her culture.

In the novel, Jane is scarred as a young child by the death of her parents. In
Victorian societys class system, she is placed next to slaves and beggars. According
to her cousin, John Reed, in the early chapters of the novel, she has no business to
read our books, and being a dependent, she ought to beg, and not to live here
with gentlemans children. These early words foreshadow the oppression of Jane
throughout the rest of her life. She is viewed as a low, poor person and is not seen
as the individual woman she is. Jane is sent to Lowood, a boarding school for
orphaned girls, where even there, a sub-class system was set to distinguish the
head of the school from the lowly school children. Here at this school Jane begins to
realize that she despises the routines set by the school workers, but soon begins to
excel and step out of the boundaries of her class system. Charlotte Bronte used Jane
as a model to show how a bright, artistic, and intellectual person can be
undermined and overlooked because of their class system.

During the course Jane Eyres life, she comes across numerous men who treat her in
different manners; all affecting her outward look on men and the inward look on
herself. A recurring them in the novel is marriage for reasons outside of love. St.
John Rivers, a priest, wants to marry Jane for religious image reasons, while Mr.
Rochester married Bertha Mason solely for money. But Jane merely wants to know
love, so that she can know...

The outline of this story

Jane Eyre, the main character, is an orphan who is passed into the care of Mrs.
Reed, the wife of her mothers brother. After years of neglect and abuse, she is sent
to a boarding school Lowood at a tender age of ten, where she received good
education under severe conditions. After her graduation, she gets a position as a
governess at Thornfield Hall where she falls in love with her employer, Mr. Edward
Rochester. At their wedding ceremony, Jane gets to know that Rochester has a wife,
a raving maniac locked in the house. In shock and grief, Jane leaves Thornfield
quietly. Penniless and starving, she is saved and befriended by St.John Rivers and
his two sisters, who turn out to be her cousins. St.John admires Jane and asks her to
be his wife and assistant in his religious service. Feeling that she still cherishes a
deep love for Rochester, who seems calling her in her dream, Jane refuses his
proposal and returns to Thornfield, only to find it a blackened ruin. Mr. Rochester is
blinded and lost a hand when he tries to rescue his mad wife, who sets the house on
fair. Jane goes to him at once and there they get married. Two years later,
Rochesters sight begins to return in one eye, and he sees their first child in person.

harlotte Bront was born in Yorkshire, England on April 21, 1816 to Maria Branwell
and Patrick Bront. Because Charlottes mother died when Charlotte was five years
old, Charlottes aunt, a devout Methodist, helped her brother-in-law raise his
children. In 1824 Charlotte and three of her sistersMaria, Elizabeth, and Emily
were sent to Cowan Bridge, a school for clergymens daughters. When an outbreak
of tuberculosis killed Maria and Elizabeth, Charlotte and Emily were brought home.
Several years later, Charlotte returned to school, this time in Roe Head, England.
She became a teacher at the school in 1835 but decided after several years to
become a private governess instead. She was hired to live with and tutor the
children of the wealthy Sidgewick family in 1839, but the job was amisery to her
and she soon left it. Once Charlotte recognized that her dream of starting her own
school was not immediately realizable, however, she returned to working as a
governess, this time for a different family. Finding herself equally disappointed with
governess work the second time around, Charlotte recruited her sisters to join her in
more serious preparation for the establishment of a school.Although the Bronts
school was unsuccessful, their literary projects flourished. At a young age, the
children created a fictional world they named Angria, and their many stories,
poems, andplays were early predictors of shared writing talent that eventually led
Emily, Anne, and Charlotte to careers as novelists. As adults, Charlotte suggested
that she, Anne, and Emily collaborate on a book of poems. The three sisters
published under male pseudonyms: Charlottes was Currer Bell, while Emily and
Anne wrote as Ellis and Acton Bell, respectively. When the poetry volume received
little public notice, the sisters decided to work on separate novels but retained the
same pseudonyms. Anne and Emily produced their masterpieces in 1847, but
Charlottes first book,The Professor,never found a willing publisher during her
lifetime. Charlotte wroteJane Eyrelater that year. The book, a critique of Victorian
assumptions about gender and social class, became one of the most successful
novels of its era, both critically and commercially.Autobiographical elements are
recognizable throughoutJane Eyre. Janesexperience at Lowood School, where her
dearest friend dies of tuberculosis, recalls the death of Charlottes sisters at Cowan
Bridge. The hypocritical religious fervor of the headmaster, Mr. Brocklehurst, is
basedin part on that of the Reverend Carus Wilson, the Evangelical minister who ran
Cowan Bridge. Charlotte took revenge upon the school that treated her so poorly by
using it as the basis for the fictional Lowood. Janes friendHelen Burnss tragic death
from tuberculosis recalls the deaths of two of Charlottes sisters, Maria and
Elizabeth, who succumbed to the same disease during their time at Cowan Bridge.
Additionally, John Reeds decline into alcoholism and dissolution is most likely
modeled upon the life of Charlotte Bronts brother Branwell, who slid into opium
and alcohol addictions in the years preceding his death. Finally, like Charlotte, Jane
becomes a governessa neutral vantage point from which to observe and describe
the oppressive social ideas and practices of nineteenth-century Victorian society.The
plot ofJane Eyrefollows the form of a Bildungsroman, which is a novel that tells the
story of a childs maturation and focuses on the emotions and experiences that
accompany and incite his or her growth to adulthood. InJane Eyre,there are five
distinct stages of development, each linked to a particular place: Janes childhood at
Gateshead, her education at the Lowood School, her time as Adles governess at
Thornfield, her time with the Rivers family at Morton and at Marsh End (also called
Moor House), and her reunion with and marriage to Rochester at Ferndean. From
these experiences, Jane becomes the mature woman who narrates the novel
retrospectively.But the Bildungsroman plot ofJane Eyre,and the books element of
social criticism, are filtered through a third literary traditionthat of the Gothic
horror story. Like the Bildungsroman, the Gothic genre originated in Germany. It
became popular in England in the late eighteenth century, and it generally
describes supernatural experiences, remote landscapes, and mysterious
occurrences, all of which are intended to create an atmosphere of suspense and
fear. Janes encounters withghosts, dark secrets, and sinister plots adda potent and
lingering sense of fantasy and mystery to the novel.After the success ofJane
Eyre,Charlotte revealed her identity to her publisher and went on to write several
other novels, mostnotablyShirleyin 1849. In the years that followed, she became a
respected member of Londons literary set. But the deaths of siblings Emily and
Branwell in 1848, and of Anne in 1849, left her feeling dejected and emotionally
isolated. In 1854,she wed the Reverend Arthur Nicholls, despite the fact that she did
not love him. She died of pneumonia, while pregnant, the following year.

Charlotte Bront may have created the character of Jane Eyre as a means of coming
to terms with elements of her own life. Much evidence suggests that Bront, too,
struggled to find a balance between love and freedom and to find others who
understood her. At many points in the book, Jane voices the authors then-
radicalopinions on religion, social class, and gender.

There are some strong personal autobiographical elements in the novel Jane Eyre
by charlotte Bronte. In order to identify the autobiographical elements in the novel,
we should keep mind some of the manifaests and events of her own life.Charlotte
Bronte had two sisters and a brother . she was elder sister.she had to take charge of
Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte and Branwell.she felt compelled to take their authorship
for their family circumstances. Branwell was their only young brother. He could not
do nothing to help his sisters well in life financially. Charlott lost two of her sisters.
Both of them received premature death. charlot Bronte and Emily had tried to earm
their livelihood. The had to work as a teacher and governess. But they had found
themselves most miserable in both . Neither life as teacher nor life as a governess
had given any satisfaction to them.Both charlotte and Emily had gone to Brussels to
learn French. They gone spent some time as pupils at a school where charlott had
fallen in lovewith principal. she loved him without receiving anyresponse from him.
Another important fact was occurred in her life. she had stayed for some time at a
country house. At the orchard of the house a huge chesnut grew tree which had
been struck by lightening. It had been divided into two. Charlotte Bronte enjoyed
another fact in her life. At the age of nine, he had gone to boarding school.Her
experience at the school was somewhat unhappy.The school was run by religious
foundation. From this school , she had been withdrawn after the death of her two
sisters who had been studying there.Jane Eyre in the novel is similar like Charlott
Bronte physically. Charlott herself was a plain looking woman. she was as small as
the heroine , Jane Eyre in the novel. she wants to show that a heroine could be an
interesting person without being beautiful. she had read at the religious charitable
school. she had her experience as a governess. All her experiences have been
transferred to Janes life in Jane Eyre. charlott had a passionate desire for a wider
life and full experience in her life. It has been given by her upon the heroine of her
novel.Charlotte Bronte noticed the practice of religion inher own time.she found the
injustice among the participationers of religion. It had given a feeling of Bitterness
in her.she expressed it in her portrayal of Mr Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre. In the novel
Jane Eyre hates the clergyman, Mr Brocklehurst who is the director of lowood
school.However, there are two other representatives of religion in the novel who are
attractive to Jane Eyre. They are kind and morally attractive. One is Hellen Burns
and Another is Miss Temple.Thornfield Hall is the house of Mr. Rochester in the
novel, Jane Eyre. It is the similar to the countryhouse of charlotte Bronte. There is an
orchard at Thorfield Hall. There also grew a huge chesnut tree. The tree is struck by
lightening too. The same happend to the country house of charlottHelen Burns meet
premature death at lowood school. Charlotte Brontes sister, Maria also meets
premature death for the same disease. At moor House, we meet Jane, Diana Rivers
and Mary Rivers. Their charecters are similar to Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and
Anne Bronte. Tabby is the old servant at Moor House. He had been a servant of the
Bronte family.To conclude, we can say that we have mentioned many personal
elements of Bronte family from her novel, Jane Eyre. But it is not all.
Jane Eyre as a Semi-Autobiographical Work Charlotte Bronte was born in Yorkshire,
England; Jane Eyre is also English. From the beginning of Jane Eyre, this novel is
already starting off as an autobiography. The Beginning. Family The family aspect
of"Jane Eyre" does not coincide with Charlotte Bronte's own life. Jane Eyre is a
orphan and, as John Reed would say, "a dependent, mama says; you have no
money, your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not live here with
gentleman's children like us." Janehad no real family until the end of the novel. Both
of her parents died when he was very young; however, even though Bronte was
notan orphan, he mother did die of cancer whenshe five. Charlotte is the third of six
children.Schooling By: Sydney Webb Both girls went to school at young ages. At age
eight, Charlotte was sent off to a horrid school with three of her sisters. The school's
name is Clergy Daughter's School, which was filledwith disease and a death trap for
the young girls who were sent there. Jane was sent to Lowood Institution at the age
of ten. Bronte depicts Lowood the same way her school was. "A keen north-east
wind, whistling through the crevices of our bed-room windows all night long, had
made us shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice." The poor
conditions of the school could easily lead to an outbreak of disease. Close People
Dying Charlotte had to somehow come to terms with her mother's death at age five.
After such a traumatic experience, she had to go through a couple more deaths in
her family: her sisters, Maria and Elizabeth. The poor conditions at Clergy
Daughter's School caused an outbreak of tuberculosis to infect the students.
Charlotte and her sisters were taken out of the school by their father; however, it
was too late for Maria and Elizabeth. The two young girls died of tuberculosis in June
of 1825. The deaths of Charlotte's sisters is mirrored in "Jane Eyre."Helen Burns,
Jane's first friend at Lowood, becomes sick during the book. While Helen is taking
her last breathes, she tells Jane "I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear thatI am
dead you must be sure and not grieve." Bronte could be expressing what she would
have wanted her sisters to say to her before they passed away. Helen also died of
consumption, just like Bronte's sisters did. The painful event in Charlotte's life has
beenretold "Jane Eyre." Governesses Both Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte became
governesses after they finished school. Charlotte did not like being a governess and
never worked anywhere for longer than nine months. Jane only worked as a
governess for one house, Thornfield. The class they were both in gave them little
options for work, also they were both women. Jane become a governess because
she was bored with being a school teacher; Charlotte became a governess because
she needed tohelp support Emily's schooling. School Teachers At the age of sixteen,
Jane becomes a teacher at Lowood; however, by the age of eighteen, she becomes
bored with the routine of a school teacher. Charlotte and her sisters started their
own school, which was a failure. Both women enjoyed teaching, but it wasn't their
passion.Jane wanted to do something different and Charlotte wanted to write.
Marriage Charlotte never fell in love or found the only man for her; instead, she
married her father'scurate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. She settled for a man she barely
knew and never had the ideal marriage. Jane, on the other hand, found the man she
loved, even though it took a while for the marriage to happen. After months apart,
Jane finally returned to Thornfield and married Rochester. Although Rochester is not
classically beautiful Jane finds him the most attractive man, describing him as " My
master's colorless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows,
deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth,--all energy, decision, will,--were not
beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me." Bronte could
be writing out how she would have wanted her life to end up, even though she was
not married at the time she wrote the novel.