Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

It's a really great novel. Lots to learn from. Beautiful journey of a brave women. Must read classic novel. It is a long novel but the story keeps you engrossed in it till the end. It has different aspects to it. It is definitely more than a romantic novel. As I mentioned earlier, lots to learn from. If you're thinking of buying one, get it. Also, its narrated brilliantly.

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It is a novel which is very famous at that time an best readable novel. it is a story of little girl and the name of this girl is jane eyre. jane eyre's mother and father are died when she was 10 year old and she stay with her uncle because it is a wish of her mother and father.one time her cousin tourcher him and slap also and keep off in one room where her uncle is died.as per my view the jane is try to say I can line alone itself respected and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delighted should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

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Hello friends today I am going to share my experience about the Jane Eyre it was an amazing book by Charlotte Bronte. I read this book  in 12th standard and found a very beautiful love story in the book. this story revolves around a girl Jane Eyre . it is also about child abuse and the book tells us moral that child abuse should be removed from the society. I suggested it to everyone please read this book once I am sure that you may have an great experience after reading the book . thnx

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If you like fantastically depressing subject matter that would make Dickens cry and an annoying protagonist who can't decided if she's independent or submissive, you'd probably like this book. I'll admit, I enjoyed the mystery aspect of the story, but as soon as jane figures out what's causing strange noises late at night setting fire to Mr. Rochester's bed, the plot kind of goes down the toilet. The mystery is solved about halfway through the story, so that's a lot of extra plot without much happening . Plus, one of the supporting characters talks almost exclusively in French, and Charlotte bronte doesn't like translating it, which could be frustrating for someone who can't read french.

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Hello guys today I am telling you about the book which I read when I was in 10th standard . The book is written by charlotte bronte its a good book to read on . the story is not so much intresting but its a nice story to read when you were free it will pass your time. the author has good twist and turns and also I like the plot and the story had been stretched too long. if you want to read a book so its nice story so overall its good .

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Friends as we all know life is fun .family, friends, but there are some people who have to go through bitter moments. Jane don't have any one in the world. She want someone who love her but there is no one .she is poor but have a good behaviour have a good personality which helped her to fight with all the hardest moments in her life. It is a novel which show a simple and powerful life of a orphan girl. It have a sad starting and have a happy ending.

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This novel by Jane Eyre is one of my favourites. Please read it as this book will make you look at human relationships from a different perspective.

The novel has two women characters - you will notice how one is constantly given importance while the other is marginalized. More than the main story revolving around the hero and heroine,  this aspect of the novel arrested my attention.

Bertha remains the unheard voice and this makes you read in between the lines to trace her voice.

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Written By Charlotte Bronte and published in 1847, Jane Eyre is one of the best novels of all time.

Jane is a orphaned girl of age 10, who lives with the family of his uncle. After the death of Mr Reed, Mr. Reed and and her children become very abusive towards her. She is sent of to a school, later she falls in love with a Mr. Rochester.

This is one of my favourite works of Charlotte Bronte and as a Literature lover I recommend all of you to read it

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An impeccable mix of enthusiastic sentiment, gothic riddle, sentimental depiction of nature, social analysis and amusingness, all rendered in striking, lovely composition. One can't appreciate Jane Eyre, the little tutor who could. She transcends her brutal childhood to wind up a tutor, poor however ever savagely free. Indeed, even the guarantee of affection and solace with the man that she adores is insufficient to influence her from the way of honesty.

One can't appreciate Charlotte, who makes her strongly human; a lady of goodness, yet one who is not above envy and questions, and who always battles with the individual expense of her choices. A profoundly felt, and at last moving story of adoration and recovery that will wait long after the last page is turned.

This novel is additionally helpful. Not sermonizing, as I would like to think, but rather for an adherent, one can discover otherworldly messages in this book. About constancy, about not wearying about doing great. About the significance of God's affection. It's all there, yet in a story that expertly showcases it, not lecturing it.

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Jane Eyre is a very celebrated and widely read classic book but on a personal frequency I fail to relate to Jane in any way. Jane the protagonist in the entire book is shown to be a victim of tough circumstances and abuses and unfortunately she does little to fight it back.

As a woman myself I do not wish to see another woman being portrayed so very weak that she could not stand up for herself. The argument here aybe that its a classic book and that is how women behaved back then but that won't be a valid argument as we have seen and read really strong classic women characters in pride n prejudice and Wuthering heights. Jane Eyre as a book and as a woman fails to inspire me

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The plot, albeit unpredictably woven, is a touch gooey and amazing, having two or three too far-out happenstances. Be that as it may, I think Bronte planned to have this book perused by ladies, this being a sentiment, so I might not rage on this viewpoint. All things considered, I purchased the book in light of the fact that I am into this insane mission of perusing every one of the books in Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and Bloombury's 501 Must Read Books and this book is in both records. I put off perusing this for a few years now, however needed to lift this up to at long last read in light of the fact that this was voted as the April 2012 Book-of-the-Month by my book club, The Filipino Group(GR-TFG) here in Goodreads.

There are such a large number of topics that can be concluded from the story: sentiment between equivalents, female freedom, religion and societal position. Contrasted with the ladies of Jane Austen's books, Jane Eyre is a kick-ass. She is autonomous minded, can work like a stallion, and whose life is not fixated on wedding any of the rich men around.

For the wonderful written work, huge characters and ageless topics, I have doubtlessly this book will be read by numerous more eras to come.

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This is not one of the best book ever; it is imperfect obviously. In any case, it's still an extraordinary read, and a significant one for me. It's one of the books I come back to consistently, such as looking through old wedding photographs. What's more, British composing from the Victorian time through WWII is still, to me, what writing is. Like the child whooping cranes, I appear to have engraved.

I additionally feel that Jane Eyre is more all around engaging than Wuthering Heights, albeit both books are classics and are well meriting the title. Wuthering Heights is for a more refined and recognizing taste.(He says, changing his ascot and peering down from his jeweled pince-nez.)

On the off chance that you haven't read this, or haven't read it a drawn-out period of time, I prescribe it.

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The tale of a disregarded young lady vagrant, of that name, who never surrenders her fantasy of satisfaction, regardless of how remote a plausibility, that objective, can ever be come to. Detested by her pitiless Aunt Mrs. Sarah Reed(NOT A BLOOD RELATIVE), and cousins, Eliza, desirous of her more excellent, however resentful sister Georgiana, and mishandled by them. They look down at the homeless person, this minimal poor young lady, what is she doing here? They demonstrate each day, their hatred, not notwithstanding trying to conceal it . It would be so pleasant, everybody considers, if Jane wasn't there. Her hopeless, tormented life, appears to be everlasting, no getaway, where might she go? What's more, treated like a modest hireling, not an adored relative, she the vagrant needs to keep her sentiments, to herself.

I cherish this book and this excursion of Jane. I think what I cherish the most is precisely the way that it goes up against you an astounding trip, and Jane changes so fundamentally from start to finish. As a peruser, you are pulling for her and your sentiments are on their top from the first pages when she's being dealt with so barbarously.

Something else that makes me adore this book to pieces is tbe truth that the two fundamental characters are not wonders - the legend and courageous woman are quite appalling, yet they locate one another - perhaps precisely as a result of that. At long last, we get a story which is not about flawless princesses or great looking sovereigns - this speaks the truth normal individuals and that improves it SO MUCH!

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Jane Eyre is written by Charlotte Bronte, whose most popular work is Wuthering Heights, a gothic novel. However, for me, Jane Eyre had always been one of the favorites. The experience of reading Jane Eyre is like no other. Written in a first person narrative style, this book started a revolution in the world of english literature. Published in 1847, this book included several elements which were not yet explored by other writers, specially female writers.

During childhood, Jane stays with her Uncle's family, as her parents had died due to illness a long time ago. Since childhood, Jane had experienced a lot of difficulty and was used to not being treated kindly. After years of hardship, Jane gets a job offer from Thornfield to be a full time governess. Down at Thornfield, Jane discovers some unsettling truth about the Rochester family while falling in love with Mr Rochester. Bronte was one of the best writers who could make the characters come alive. Her descriptive writing will take you to a different era. The story of Jane Eyre is one of the best stories ever. There is tragedy, love, secrets and the story spans through years.

The thing that I like the most is the character development of Jane Eyre. The readers are introduced to her, as a child, and then through the pages of the book see her grow into an amazing woman. Undeniably one of the most passionate, powerful and interesting characters ever. A great book, which according to me is a must-read.

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a classic that is timeless. It is a tale of romance and integrity. It is a tale of trust and love, which explores the inner side of women.

Jane Eyre as a book was a part of my English Literature Degree, but it never left my book shelf. I could never part with it really. The story of love between Edward Rochester and Jane Eyre shall stay with me till I remain a student of English Literature.

It has a few negative points though:

1. With 400+ pages, it may not be a first choice of a reader. Today’s books are less than 200 pages in volume.

   
   




2. Jane Eyre is written in a little complex English and is not synonymous with today’s generation of simplistic writing.

   
   




3. The main theme of this novel is love, like many other thousand novels. But the plot is old and the way platonic love is given importance may be considered invalid today’s society.

   
   

There I gave you points both for and against. It will definitely help you in your buying decision of Jane Eyre, the book.

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This book is the only book written by Charlotte Bronte. It is about a young girl, Jane Eyre, who was orphaned and lived a miserable life at her uncle’s home. Her aunt sends her to a boarding school   where Jane lives until typhus wipes out the school’s population. She is one of the lucky ones who survive. She completes her education and then becomes a governess.

She doesn’t want to be a teacher at the boarding school, so she applies for a job in a house called Thornfield. There she is the governess for Adele Varnes, a young girl and an illegitimate child of the owner of the house, Mr. Rochester. During the first months at the house, Mr. Rochester isn’t ever home, and when he does come, he is moody and strange.

Jane also notices many odd things that happen in the house. At night she hears cries and thuds coming from upstairs and one night she awakens to the smell of fire. She quickly realizes that Mr. Rochester’s bed is on fire. She saves him and they are both puzzled by who could have done such a thing. Meanwhile, Jane realizes that she has fallen in love with Mr. Rochester but is too dignified to admit it either to him or herself.

Mr. Rochester invites some guests over to his house, and Jane is treated like a servant. One of the guests in the young Ms. Ingram whom Rochester is about to marry. Another guest, Mr. Macon, is mysteriously injured during his stay. To add to her troubles, Jane is summoned by her aunt, who is now lying on her deathbed. Her aunt asks Jane for forgiveness because of the way she had treated her. Jane quickly accepts her aunt’s contrite apologies. Also, her aunt admits to her how a few years ago a distant relative of Jane, Mr. Eyre, who lived in Jamaica, had offered to adopt her and she had lied to him saying that Jane had died in the typhus epidemic.

When Jane returns to Thornfield, Mr. Rochester proposes to marry her. Jane is confused at first because he was supposed to marry Ms. Ingram. Mr. Rochester soon proves her wrong, saying that he had never loved Ms. Ingram. She was only marrying Mr. Rochester because of his wealth. He had invited her to Thronfield to make Jane envious. Hearing this, Jane joyously agrees to marry him. That night the tree, under which Mr. Rochester had proposed to her, is struck by lightning and is destroyed.

The night before their wedding, Jane finds someone in her room wearing the bridal veil. The face scares her and she is unable to recognize it. The ghostly form soon runs away and does not harm Jane. Jane decides to report the incident to Mr. Rochester who dismisses it as a mere trick of her imagination.

Jane and Mr. Rochester are about to get married in a nearby church, but their wedding is interrupted by a man. He claims that Mr. Rochester cannot marry Jane because his first wife is still alive. At first Mr. Rochester denies this charge, but soon gives in. He takes them to Thronfield and up to the attic. There Jane sees the same face of the woman who had worn her wedding veil. Mr. Rochester tells the woman is Bertha Macon, his first wife from Jamaica. She had gone mad during the first few years of their marriage and has been imprisoned in the attic by Mr. Rochester for the past 15 years.

After finding this out, Jane is shocked and decides to run away from Thronfield. She becomes a beggar until she is taken in by Reverend St. Rivers and his sisters. Jane lives with then under an alias and gets along well. There she finds out that her relative, Mr. Eyre, has died and left his fortune to her. Furthermore, she discovers that Mr. Rivers and his sisters are her cousins. They decide to share her fortune and Mr. Rivers insists on marrying Jane. However, he admits to her that he doesn’t love her, but she would make a great wife for a missionary. Jane declines his proposal.

One night she has a dream about Mr. Rochester and that he wants her to come back to Thronfield. She feels something is wrong and quickly returns to her former employee’s house. There, her thoughts are proved correct. She learns that Bertha had set the house on fire and Mr. Rochester had lost an arm and his eyesight while trying to rescue her from the flames. Even though Mr. Rochester is disabled, Jane agrees to marry him and takes in Adele.

I found this book very interesting, although some parts of it were boring and extra-long. Jane Eyre is considered to be a true heroine of the Victorian time period. Bronte has portrayed her very differently from the conventional women of the 19th century. Jane is rebellious and independent. Jane Eyre is a great book filled with love, mystery, reason and passion.

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Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

Charlotte Bronte – A name associated with a handful of novels, the most famous of which, is Jane Eyre. The brilliant authoress has written this story partly as an autobiography where the protagonist Jane is a character associated with her own self. Charlotte died at the young age of 38 after living a difficult life, but has given the society a message; one of patience, endurance, determination and self- respect.

Story – The story is narrated by Jane in first person. It starts with a description of the life of 10 year old orphan Jane Eyre, who is ill-treated by her aunt Mrs. Reed and three cousins. She quietly tolerates all the tortures and thrashing but eventually vents out her hatred against Mrs. Reed. Outraged by this, the aunt sends her off to a boarding school, where the spoilt child could possibly learn to respect elders.

When Jane enters the boarding school for orphans, she is relieved having left the family that hated her, but is also full of apprehensions of stepping into unknown waters. In due course, she finds a friend in Helen, who is 3 years older than her. Soon, Jane proves herself to be a sincere student and establishes herself as a pet of many a teacher. She discovers a new interest in painting. Sadly, because of the miserable conditions of the school, worn out clothes and poor nutrition for the children, many of them contract typhus fever and die; one of the ill-fated is Helen.

Six years later, she becomes a teacher for the same school. After 2 years of teaching, she feels stagnated in her job and moves out to a different region to be appointed as a governess for little girl -Adele. Adele’s guardian Mr. Rochester is a respected gentleman but seems to be brusque, eccentric and moody in his manner of interaction. Jane enjoys her new job in plush conditions of her master’s huge home. However, weird incidents, eerie laugher in the middle of nights, some periodic secretive murmurs and a fire flaring in Mr. Rochester’s room under mysterious circumstances make Jane wary.

In due course, she secretly falls in love with her suave master though she regards him the moon that she can see every day, but can never reach to. She mentions-I tossed on an unquiet sea, I thought I saw beyond its wild waters a shore, a freshening gale, wakened by hope, bore my spirit triumphantly: but I could not reach it, even in fancy--a counteracting breeze blew off land, and continually drove me back.

Life for Jane takes a turn when Mr. Rochester proposes to her. He promises to give her all the pleasures of life, treat her as a princess and show her the world. He mentions, “Ten years ago, I flew through Europe half mad; with disgust, hate, and rage as my companions: now I shall revisit it healed and cleansed, with a very angel as my comforter.” However, Jane has suffered too many hardships to trust anyone blindly and she feels he is playing some practical joke on her. It all seems unreal to her and too good to be true. The wedding preparations start in full swing and the finest jewels, wedding gown complete with veil is readied for the grand occasion. Just on the day before her wedding, her veil is torn apart by an unknown, ghostly figure.

What is the mystery behind the uncanny happenings at their mansion? Will the wedding take place and Jane live a life of bliss and comfort?

My opinion- Jane Eyre is a classic of rich literature laced with gems of intricate metaphors and alliterations. I found at least five words on each page which I did not know even existed! Unlike most novels, where the main characters are usually immensely beautiful/handsome and intelligent, we have Jane who is pale, thin and average looking and Mr. Rochester who is dark and middle aged. Perhaps, this facilitates an easy connect between the reader and these down to earth characters. I found the story slow at places, but picks up speed in the second half of the book. There are quite a few deaths in the story, which made me a tad depressed. :P The classic genre proved to be a welcome change for me.

Jane Eyre boasts of an intriguing story and a valuable message to mankind. It is a simple love story with some suspense and twists towards the end, and is definitely worth treasuring. A must read for the lover to know the depths of love, for the depressed to hoist his hope, for the privileged to know how lucky he is and finally, for today’s authors to know what writing is! And why did I mention the last one? That’s because the writing skills of authors in recent years have stooped to such low levels that any Tom, Dick or Harry has the audacity to write books and moreover, glorify himself for his gibberish! Disclaimer- An apparent pointer to any author’s works is purely coincidental. :)

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Let it be first informed that Jane Eyre, is not the only novel by Emily Bronte, there is Emma for one, Villete and a few others and also a collection of poems published prior to Jane Eyre and horridly panned by the critics.

Now, for the plot. Jane, who is also the narrator, is introduced to us on a cold winter afternoon being chided by her foster mother and aunt, Mrs. Reed, and the scene is followed by a violent altercation with her cousin, after which she is locked away in a room as a form of punishment.

Events take toll, and Jane is finally packed of under the care of a Mr. Braithewaite, a singularly unpeasant man of parsimonious nature and grim outlook, whose institution, The Lowood Institution, is a place where girls are brought up to be meek, god fearing, pale and insipid creatures. The only effect that the institution has on Jane, is to teach her to envelope her inner storms and turmoil under a calm veneer.

Time passes, quite slowly, at the Lowood Institute, where she is able to find some sort of solace in the kind tutelage of Mrs. Temple, her mentor. Eight years pass thus, and Jane, 18 years of age now, stands on the threshold of a new life. As Mrs. Temple gets marries off, Jane applies for the position of a governess by advertising in a newspaper and duly gets placement in Thornfield mansion.

Once in Thornfield mansion, she meets Mrs. Fairfax, the caretaker and eventually gets acquainted to the master of the house, Mr. Thornfield. In addtion, there is Adele, her French ward, Sophie, Adele's caretaker, Leah, a maid and Grace Poole, whose work isnt quite well defined, and who, Jane is eventually informed, has a quite a preternatural way of laughter.

As the plot develops, we see love blossoming between Mr. Thornfield and Ms. Eyre, and then tragedy, or rather misfortune strikes on the very day of the wedding.

The rest cannot be revealed owing teo its vitality in maintaining the suspense of the plot. The style of writting is superlative. It must have been difficult to get published being a lady author in the Victorian age, but the fact that she overcame all these odds to actually gat published and that too, quite successfully, speaks volumes about the refinement of her literary skills.

The narrative, I admit, might appear a tad too minute going into the nitty gritties, but Emily Bronte is successfully able to potray the anguish that the heart of a woman in love has to go through.

Two words: Read It.

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Naturally, Bronte has quite the gift in regards to narration. It saddens me to hear that people find Victorian Literature either "dull" or "too explicit, " leaving nothing to imagine. Well, I disagree in both regards. Jane Eyre is filled with the sort of people who defame such works, and is a gateway for Women's Literature and overall morality. In her time, Bronte was considered "morally flawed, " because she contrasted dogmatic notions of priopriety and other residual beliefs instilled by religion. I say: kudos to Bronte for sticking it to the man, so to speak. She, and her narratives, will live on in my soul, and inspire and evoke, what truly lies within the human soul; in other words, skeptics, go back to your page-turner novels filled to the brim with whimsical melodrama.

Also, in my opinion, the character of Jane Eyre is an enjoyable rose to observe as she blossoms into a full-fledged human being, female or not. She is a looking glass into what it means to be a person, and what people face. Though her moral convictions seem, at times, to be quite masochistic and purtainish, she learns and discovers what is her truest of desires; and the simple philosophy: what is good for most is not good for all. which I believe Charolette Bronte, along with a fleet of female thinkers of her time, saw within themselves-despite the classical definition of their innate sex, and for her to see that and publish it, makes her all the stronger of a person.

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When I first read this book little did I know that this is one book I will go back to reading again and again. The first time I read it I truly felt the book was Victorian too conservative, too stuffy, talk about giving up the love of your life only cause he is not legally divorced and suffering loneliness and refusing to move on with life. But then I could not stop reading it again because there was this elusive quality to the Jane character. On the surface of it she is actually too much of a sufferer to be your avarage heroine, but as I read it again I realized the silent strenght imbibed into the character. Well it still reeks of medival modern christian woman prototype but hey, the author was after all from the old world she was not exactly writing for the empowered women of this century.

There are some scenes in the book that are great master pieces, like the argument between Mr.Rochester and Jane after she finds out the truth, the one where Mr.Rochester comes dressed as a gypsy and ofcourse the one where he proposes to her. Simply superb narrative and dialouges.

Overall the writing style in great but there is some symbolisim attached that might generally be lost on the average 21st century reader like lightining striking down an old chestnut  tree after Mr.Rochester proposes to Jane and her dreams on the eve of her marraige.

None of the characters in the plot or simple, they have so many layers to them and so many varied. Take Jane's aunt who detests her yet feels so intensely about her behaviour that she goes crazy towards the end yet she cannot truly forgive Jane for standing up to her. Then there is Jane's cousin who is a missionary who loves for some other girl yet insists that Jane marry him because she is a worthy missionary's wife. Of course Mr.Rochester who tries to capture love through lies and manipulation, a dark brooding character who revels in his strengh gaurding his secters, a sinner looking for redemption yet who will have it only on his terms.

The book is definitely worth reading because it has depth, variety and it grows on you gradually. It is a story of a simple woman who never finds love as a child and yet when she finds it for the first time she has the courage and the strengh to walk away for she believes it is the right thing to do. Then again when she is offered marraige she does the unthinkable, in her times, by refusing to marry without love. She is a monument to silent strengh and courage and a tribute to women all over. All you girls/woman out there pick it up and celebrate your strength and boys/men pick it up to know what you should be looking for in a woman.

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