Jane Eyre
Author- Charlotte Brontë
Genre- Romance
Original Publication Date- 1847
Characters-
Jane Eyre- Main Character and narrator, intelligent, honest, plain-featured young girl forced to contend with oppression, inequality, and hardship, she meets with a series of individuals who threaten her independence but succeeds in asserting herself, maintains her principles of justice, human dignity, and morality, values intellectual and emotional fulfillment, strongly believes in gender and social equality and challenges the Victorian prejudices against women and the poor
John Eyre- Jane's uncle, leaves her 20,000 pounds
Edward Rochester- Jane's employer and the master of Thornfield, a wealthy and passionate man, unconventional and ready to set aside polite manners, propriety, and consideration of social class in order to interact with Jane frankly and directly, rash and impetuous, has spent much of his life roaming about Europe trying to avoid his problems, his problems are his own fault, but he is a sympathetic figure because he has suffered for so long as a result of his early marriage to Bertha
The Rivers
St. John Rivers- serves as Jane's benefactor after she runs away from Thornfield, gives her food and shelter, is the minister at Morton, cold, reserved, and often controlling, serves as a foil to Rochester
Diana Rivers- Jane's cousin, sister of St.
Jane Eyre (1943 film)
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Mary Rivers- Jane's cousin, sister of St. John and Diana, a kind and intelligent young woman, forced to work as a governess after her father loses his fortune, serves as a model of an independent woman who is also able to maintain close relationships with others and a sense of meaning in her life
Bessie Lee- maid at Gateshead,