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General InformationTitleJane EyreAuthorCharlotte BrontëGenreAutobiographical ...
General InformationTitleJane EyreAuthorCharlotte BrontëGenreAutobiographical Novel, Gothic RomanceOriginal Publication1847Plot SummaryJane Eyre is the story of a young girl, orphaned at a young age, who grows up in the care of her aunt, Mrs. Reed. Her aunt's household includes two wealthy cousins, John and Arthur, who bully Jane. She is treated poorly by everyone except her aunt's housekeeper, Bessie. Bessie's kindness and the nature of Jane's spirit lead to a friendship between the two. However, when Jane's aunt falls ill, Bessie's treatment of Jane worsens.One day, Jane is sent to Lowood School as a charity student. She quickly learns that Lowood is a school where the students are starved and beaten. Jane's character and strength are tested when she must endure these hardships. She soon rises to the ranks of the schoolmistress, teaching the other students and helping them when they are sick or being bullied.When Jane is fifteen years old, she meets the school's benefactor, Mr. Brocklehurst, who tries to force Jane to accept his view of God and marriage. She resists and soon learns that Lowood School was actually run on Mr. Brocklehurst's orders, as punishment for the original sin committed by his own mother. Mr. Brocklehurst's mother had been unfaithful to her husband and Mr. Brocklehurst was the result of that sin. Mr. Brocklehurst tries to humiliate Jane and remove her from Lowood School. She leaves the school as a teacher at Lowood Endowed Orphanage in Essex run by a man named St. John who hates Jane for her spirit and Christianity. However, St. John soon becomes interested in Jane's sister, Mary, and they become engaged. St. John's sister, Helen, returns from India and falls ill, later dying in Jane's arms after a religious vision Jane has, urging her to find St. John for a discussion on God's place in her life. St. John's family plot to send Jane away and break up his marriage with Mary is successful and Mary marries another man who is not right for her after Jane leaves St. John for her true love Rochester and heads for Thornfield Hall in search of employment. She is sent to work as a governess at Thornfield Hall under the watchful eye of Mr. Mason, a young clergyman who soon becomes smitten with Jane but who Jane finds immoral for his dealings with Mason's sister, Blanche Ingram, who Mason had been engaged to before he met Jane but who Blanche had jilted him for another man who she later marries for money as he is richer than Mason had been. Mason soon leaves Thornfield Hall with Blanche as they were soon engaged after Jane rejected Mason for being selfish for trying to be with Jane only for Blanche to scheme behind Mason's back with him again after Blanche later meets him again after she marries another man for money who she later dumps for Mason after he found out about Blanche's marriage to another man and Mason later leaves Blanche for Jane after she rejects Blanche for Mason for being a hypocrite but he later deserts Jane after she marries him as he becomes an alcoholic brute who beats Jane often while he was drunk and throws her out of their home into the snowy fields one winter night after he found out about Jane's past when she was young and orphaned at Lowood School where she met St. John who tried to force her into marriage with him after he found out about Jane's past when she was young and orphaned at Lowood School where she met St. John who tried to force her into marriage with him after he found out about Jane's past when she was young and orphaned at Lowood School where she met St. John who tried to force her into marriage with him when he returns from answering a letter from Mason seeking reconciliation after he had been missing for days without word and Blanche Ingram hires someone to murder Mason while he is drunk after he found out about Blanche's marriage to another man when he beats Jane again one night while drunk and throws her out of their home into the snowy fields in search of reconciliation after Mason returns from answering a letter from Blanche seeking reconciliation after he had been missing for days without word but before Blanche's henchman murders Mason but he later returns home to find Jane dead on the floor but before Blanche's hench
