簡愛作品賞析英文
㈠ <簡愛>的全部英文簡介
Jane Eyre： Written by C Bronte
Introction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College.
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester.
However, there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story, which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors.
㈡ 簡愛賞析英文版
這篇比較合適:
Jane Eyre — A Beautiful Soul
Jane Eyre, is a poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul, obscure but self-respecting girl. After we close the covers of the book, after having a long journey of the spirit, Jane Eyre, a marvelous figure, has left us so much to recall and to think:
We remember her goodness: for someone who lost arms and blinded in eyes, for someone who despised her for her ordinariness, and even for someone who had hurt her deeply in the past.
We remember her pursuit of justice. It』 like a companion with the goodness. But still, a virtuous person should promote the goodness on one side and must check the badness on the other side.
We remember her self-respect and the clear situation on equality. In her opinion, everyone is the same at the God』s feet. Though there are differences in status、in property and also in appearance, but all the human being are equal in personality.
We also remember her striving for life, her toughness and her confidence…
When we think of this girl, what she gave us was not a pretty face or a transcendent temperament that make us admire deeply, but a huge charm of her personality.
Actually, she wasn』t pretty, and of course, the ordinary appearance didn』t make others feel good of her, even her own aunt felt disgusted with it. And some others even thought that she was easy to look down on and to tease, so when Miss Ingram met Jane Eyre, she seemed quite contemptuous, for that she was obviously much more prettier than 『the plain and ugly governess』. But as the little governess had said: 『Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!』 This is the idea of equality in Jane Eyre』s mind. God hadn』t given her beauty and wealth, but instead, God gave her a kind mind and a thinking brain. Her idea of equality and self-respect impress us so much and let us feel the power inside her body.
In my mind, though a person』s beauty on the face can make others once feel that one is attractive and charming, if his or her mind isn』t the same beautiful as the appearance, such as beauty cannot last for, when others find that the beauty which had charmed them was only a falsity, it』s not true, they will like the person no more. For a long time, only a person』s great virtue, a noble soul, a beautiful heart can be called as AN EVERLASTING BEAUTY, just as Kahill Gibran has said, that 『Beauty is a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted』. I can feel that how beauty really is, as we are all fleshly men, so we can』t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but fleshly men, so we can』t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but as there are great differences in our souls, and from that, we can know that whether a man is noble or ordinary, and even obscure, that is, whether he is beautiful or not.
Her story makes us thinking about life and we learn much from her experience, at least, that is a fresh new recognition of the real beauty.
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Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte. It was published in London, England in 1847.
Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan. Jane Eyre, is a poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul, obscure but self-respecting girl. After we close the covers of the book, after having a long journey of the spirit, Jane Eyre, a marvelous figure, has left us so much to recall and to think.
We remember her goodness: for someone who lost arms and blinded in eyes, for someone who despised her for her ordinariness, and even for someone who had hurt her deeply in the past. We remember her pursuit of justice. It』 like a companion with the goodness. But still, a virtuous person should promote the goodness
on one side and must check the badness on the other side.
We remember her self-respect and the clear situation on equality. In her opinion, everyone is the same at the God』s feet. Though there are differences in status、in property and also in appearance, but all the human being are equal in personality. We also remember her striving for life, her toughness and her confidence. When we think of this girl, what she gave us was not a pretty face or a transcendent temperament that make us admire deeply, but a huge charm of her personality.
㈣ 簡愛的評析（英語PPT）
簡愛》的問世曾經轟動了十九世紀的文壇，它以一種不可抗拒的美感吸引了成千上萬的讀者，有一種抑制不住的沖動，驅使人拿起這本書，隨之深深感動，心靈也為之震顫。
這是一部帶有自轉色彩的長篇小說，是英國十九世紀著名三姐妹作家之一的夏洛蒂*勃朗特所著。這是一本用自己的心與強烈的精神追求鑄煉成的一本書，含著作者無限的情感和個性魅力，為女性贏得了一片燦爛的天空。
主人公簡愛身材瘦小，相貌平凡，無金錢、無地位，卻有著不平凡的氣質和非常豐富的情感世界。她在生活的磨練中，拋棄了女性天生的懦弱與嬌柔逐漸養成了堅強獨立的個性。她不會在表兄殘暴面前甘心被辱，而是據理力爭。即使結果不盡人意，卻始終如一沒有低頭；在魔鬼般冷酷的布洛克爾赫斯先生的折磨下，她不會表現出任何恐懼，而是從容的扛下來，獨立堅強的活下來。讀《簡愛》，我為幼年的她所受到的虐待而悲憤，感同身受般的體會著簡愛那幼小敏感的心靈所受的傷害。我也為簡愛而傾倒。喜歡她在地位比她高的所謂上流社會人士面前表現出的那種不卑不亢的態度，喜歡她在面對愛時表現出的的那種自尊自強的精神，心中不禁感嘆在距離她所處的年代進步了二百年的現代，又有幾個女子有勇氣為了自己的尊嚴而對一個心愛又富有的男子說不呢？簡愛就可以！在她的身上時刻閃現著一種獨立人格的壯美與崇高！
「你以為，就因為我窮，低微，不美，我就沒有心，沒有靈魂嗎？我跟你一樣有靈魂，也完全一樣有一顆心。要是上帝也賜予我美貌和財富的話，我也會讓你難以離開我，就像我現在難以離開你一樣！」每次讀《簡愛》的時候，都會被這段話所震撼。正如愛德華所說的，簡「如一隻發瘋的鳥兒拚命撕掉自己的羽毛。」這是一種強烈的自我釋放，一種悲與愛交織起來的「支配一切、戰勝一切、壓倒一切」的力量。她在用自己的語言和行動表明：自己有權平等地追求一份屬於自己的愛情。她不美、卑微，卻以自己的獨特氣質吸引著所有的人。兩性之間是平等的，女子必須有獨立的人格，自尊自愛，不依附於其他人才可以贏得別人的尊重和熱愛，才會有真正的幸福。愛情須以平等和互相獨立作為基礎，不是一味地接受對方的給予。假若簡愛選擇留下，甘心當個無名無分、近乎情婦的妻子，羅切斯特會像當初那樣痴愛著她嗎？他愛的是不卑不亢、自尊自重的簡愛，不是一個躲在他懷中只懂得接受疼愛的女子！簡愛是一代又一代的女性心中最平易近人的偶像，她不會難以靠近，她的影子飄散在我們的周圍，以她為准則，大家都可以生活的自信坦盪，都可以沿著命運給予的線索找到自己真正的幸福所在。
而在當今的現實世界裡，人們都瘋狂的似乎為了金錢和地位而淹沒愛情。在窮與富之間選擇富，在愛與不愛之間選擇不愛。很少有人會像簡這樣為愛情為個體的人格尊嚴拋棄所有，而且義無反顧。也許當人們窮得只剩下錢時，他們會去追求「真愛「。可被銅臭熏過的精神還配擁有真愛嗎？也許到了化繁為簡返樸歸真的時候了。在追求物質生活的時候，應該在生活中灌注一些真情和溫情，追求一份本真的溫馨、和諧和寬容。讓我們也追求全心付出的感覺，不計得失的簡化的感情。純凈的像一杯水，緩緩地灑落人間。
從世俗的喧囂浮華中脫離出來，靜下心來細細地品讀《簡愛》吧，去和簡愛的靈魂對話。簡愛就是一個童話，她讓我們相信，擁有了獨立人格並可以自尊、自愛、自立、自信的女子，即使是一株野百合，也會有自己的驕傲，也會找到屬於自己的永遠的春天。
希望對樓主有幫助。
㈤ 簡愛英文賞析
AFTER READING JANE EYRE
If you love someone who also loves you, if the one who loves you wants to marry you and if you hope to be with him so earnestly, won』 you feel happy? But what if the one who loves you is married and what if he cannot get divorced with his wife who is insane and whom he doesn』t love at all? Will you still love him and stay together with him or will you choose to leave him? It is not an easy one for any of us to choose and it is also a tough choice for Jane Eyre. I couldn』t stop thinking all these questions after finishing the classic novel Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte.
The heroin of the novel, Jane orphaned when still an infant, lived with her aunt Reed and three cousins. Though her late uncle Mr. Reed on her mother』s side required his wife to treat Jane as her own child while dying, cruel Mrs. Reed raised Jane in a very cold and unloving way. As the maid said to little Jane 「it』s your place to be humble」, but even if Jane remained humble- 「dare commit no fault, strive to fulfill every ty」, she was still termed to be naughty and tiresome. Every one including the maids looked down upon her and Jane became very rebellious and was sent to Lowood School, a bleak charity school, at the age of eleven.
Lowood was prison-like and life there was not better. Conditions were poor at the school. Besides, when Jane first came there, the tyrannical master of the school humiliated Jane publicly. Not until typhus killed many of the students did conditions improved. Meanwhile, Jane studied hard and was very polite and she gained friendship and care from others. After she completed her ecation she became a teacher there and later she obtained a position as a governess at a house names Thornfield.
It was at Thornfield that the writer allocated most of her ink and it was there Jane met her lover, Mr. Rochester, owner of Thornfield. Mr. Rochester was around forty and he was rude and insensitive and with a very bad temper. Worst of all, he harbored a very big secret, which later proven to be an impediment in his marriage with Jane. Thought Mr. Rochester was the owner, he seldom stayed there. And Jane first saw him after several weeks of work there. At Thornfield, there were so many odd things: Jane often hears strange laughter and thuds. One night, Jane was woken up by strange noises and the smell of smoke. She found Rochester unconscious in his bed, which was on fire. Though Jane counld not know why there were so many odd things. She felt happy at Thornfield and graally she found that Mr. Rochester was a gentle and kind person. At the same time, Jane has realized that she loves Rochester but in her pride refuses to confess it. Later, when Mr. Rochester proposed to Jane, she agreed with great joy. But God』s plan was unpredicted. And Jane had to make hard choices as mentioned at the very beginning of this article.
There is no doubt that the whole story is very fascinating and suspensive and when you start reading, you cannot help reading the next chapter and hope to know what is going to happen. In addition, the way Jane Eyre was written was also very good. The heroin Jane told us her own story from the start, in which way we can read her thoughts and feelings as if we were in her position.
Thought our focus is on Jane, rebellious, spirited, intelligent, and fiercely independent, the other characters in the novel can also catch our attention as we listen to Jane』s story. At her Aunt Reed』s, we will meet John Reed, Jane』s arrogant and spoiled cousin, who liked to beat Jane for punishment and amusement. At Lowood, we will encounter Helen, Jane』s best friend there who is overly mature and fatalistic; Mr. Brocklehurst, a mean master who humiliated Jane in public and Miss Temple, the superintendent who cared Jane and Helen. At Thornfield, we will see Jane』s student and Mr. Rochester』s ward Adele Varens, a loving but petulant girl and you cannot help guessing her own identity and the mad women Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester』s first wife who was kept in an antic but retaliated, trying to kill Rochester and ruining his home and name. And more after Jane』s choice between leave and stay. All characters are unforgettable.
Another amazing thing about the novel is that when it was initially published, it was subtitled "An Autobiography」. And to some extent, we can say it is the author』s autobiography. So we have to know something about the time when the author lived. Charlotte Bronte lived in the 18th century. At that time, the English workers organized the Chartist Movement. They demanded basic rights and better living and working conditions. The middle-class life of the time was characterized by prosperity、respectability and material progress. People as a whole were trying to live up to a national spirit of earnestness, respectability, modesty and domesticity. In the period, there were many famous novelists who were the critical realists. They concerned about the fate of the common people. They attacked the Victorian conventions and morals. Charlotee Bronte was among them. Actually she was sent to the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. "The food was poor and insufficient and they were treated with inhuman severity." Two of the Bronte sisters actually died as a result of the treatment and the sickness contracted there. Lowood should be modeled after the Clergy Daughter's Institution and Jane』s best friend Helen in some sense died just as Charlotte』s sisters did. Charlotte has done so many of the same things as Jane: she has attended the same sort of school, both as pupil and teacher; she has worked as a governess, and has fallen in love with an older man, and had to make hard choice to leave him. We did not know about Charlotte』s religious convictions, but as she was the daughter of a parson we might dece that Jane』s mix of inbuilt Christian belief and natural moral independence are shared with her author.
Most importantly, "Jane Eyre" has many recurring themes including: relationships between men and women, their roles and limitations in society; relations between social classes; religion and morality; the need to fulfill the desires of loved ones versus the necessity to maintain one's personal integrity; the conflict between reason and passion, and, of course, Jane's deep need to love and be loved. However, primary to the tale is the magnificent, complex character of Jane herself.
If you want to know the details of story of Jane and if you want to feel her love with Mr. Rochester and if you cannot wait to know whether Jane can be together with Mr. Rochester at the end or not, and if you hope to see the beautiful surroundings in England, do not hesitate, just read Jane Eyre which will never fade with time.
And please allow me to end with Jane』s word, which is also my favorite:
「I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities or even of moral flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God』s feet, equal as we are!」
㈥ 《簡愛》摘抄好句好段加賞析英文版
搜一下：《簡愛》摘抄好句好段加賞析英文版
㈦ 《簡愛》英文版經典段落及翻譯
簡愛英文版經典段落及翻譯："That night, on going to bed, I forgot to prepare in imagination the Barmecide supper, of hot roast potatoes, or white bread and new milk, with which I was wont to amuse my inward cravings. I feasted instead on the spectacle of ideal drawings, which I saw in the dark - all the work of my own hands."那天晚上，在上床睡覺的時候，我忘記了在想像中准備了晚餐、烤土豆、白麵包和新牛奶，我習慣用這種方式來滿足我內心的渴望。」我在黑暗中看到了理想的圖畫，這是我親手做的一切。Jane writes of this after she has become comfortable and has excelled at Lowood. She is no longer dwelling on the lack of food or other material things, but is more concerned with her expanding mind and what she can do. 簡在她變得很舒服，並且在羅沃德表現出色之後，寫了這一點。她不再沉溺於食物或其他物質的匱乏，而是更加關注她不斷膨脹的思想和她能做的事情。
㈧ 簡愛的人物英文分析，給我全文好嗎謝謝
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Jane Eyre: The protagonist and title character, orphaned as a baby. She is a plain-featured and reserved but talented, empathetic, hard-working, honest (not to say blunt), and passionate girl. Skilled at studying, drawing, and teaching, she works as a governess at Thornfield Manor and falls in love with her wealthy employer, Edward Rochester. But her strong sense of conscience does not permit her to become his mistress, and she does not return to him until his insane wife is dead and she herself has come into an inheritance.
Mr. Reed: Jane's maternal uncle. He adopts Jane when her parents die. Before his own death, he makes his wife promise to care for Jane.
Mrs. Sarah Reed: Jane's aunt by marriage, who resides at Gateshead. Because her husband insists, Mrs. Reed adopts Jane. Jane, however, receives nothing but neglect and abuse at her hands. At the age of ten, Jane is sent away to school. Years later, Jane attempts to reconcile with her aunt, but Mrs. Reed spurns her, still resenting that her husband loved Jane more than his own children. Shortly afterward, Mrs. Reed dies of a stroke.
John Reed: Mrs. Reed's son, and Jane's cousin. He is Mrs. Reed's "own darling," though he bullies Jane constantly, sometimes in his mother's presence. He goes to college, ruining himself and Gateshead through gambling. Word comes of his death; his decision to commit suicide.
Eliza Reed: Mrs. Reed's elder daughter, and Jane's cousin. Bitter because she is not as attractive as her sister, Georgiana Reed, she devotes herself self-righteously to Catholicism. After her mother's death, she enters a French convent, where she eventually becomes the Mother Superior.
Georgiana Reed: Mrs. Reed's younger daughter, and Jane's cousin. Though spiteful and insolent, she is inlged by everyone at Gateshead because of her beauty. In London, Lord Edwin Vere falls in love with her, but his relations are against their marriage. Lord Vere and Georgiana decide to elope, but Eliza finds them out. Georgiana returns to Gateshead, where she grows plump and vapid, spending most of her time talking of her love affair. After Mrs. Reed's death, she marries a wealthy but worn-out society man.
Bessie Lee: The nursemaid at Gateshead. She sometimes treats Jane kindly, telling her stories and singing her songs. Later she marries Robert Leaven.
Robert Leaven: The coachman at Gateshead, who sometimes gives Jane a ride on Georgiana's bay pony. He brings Jane to Lowood Institution. Months after she goes to Thornfield Hall, he brings her the news of John Reed's death, which had brought on Mrs. Reed's stroke.
Mr. Lloyd: A compassionate apothecary who recommends that Jane be sent to school. Later, he writes a letter to Miss Temple confirming Jane's account of her childhood and thereby clearing Jane of Mrs. Reed's charge of lying.
Mr. Brocklehurst: The arrogant, hypocritical clergyman who serves as headmaster and treasurer of Lowood School. He embezzles the school's funds in order to pay for his family's opulent lifestyle. At the same time, he preaches a doctrine of Christian austerity and self-sacrifice to everyone in hearing. When his dishonesty is brought to light, he is made to share his office of inspector and treasurer with more kindly people, who greatly improve the school.
Miss Maria Temple: The kind, attractive young superintendent of Lowood School. She recognizes Mr. Brocklehurst for the cruel hypocrite he is, and treats Jane and Helen with respect and compassion. She helps clear Jane of Mrs. Reed's false accusation of deceit.
Miss Scatcherd: A sour and vicious teacher at Lowood. She behaves with particular cruelty toward Helen, using her as a scapegoat for anything and everything.
Helen Burns: An angelic fellow-student and best friend of Jane's at Lowood School. Several years older than the ten-year-old Jane, she stoically accepts all the cruelties of the teachers and the deficiencies of the school's room and board. She refuses to hate the tyrannical Mr. Brocklehurst or the vicious Miss Scatcherd, or to complain, believing in the New Testament teaching that one should love one's enemies and turn the other cheek. Jane reveres her for her profound Christianity, even though she herself believes that returning hate for hate is necessary to prevent evil from taking over. Helen, uncomplaining as ever, dies of consumption in Jane's arms. In the book it is noted that she was buried in an unmarked grave until some years later, when a marble gravestone with her name and the word 'Resurgam' inscribed on it appears. The possible inference is that this was provided by Jane.
Edward Fairfax Rochester: The owner of Thornfield Manor, and Jane's lover and eventual husband. He possesses a strong physique and great wealth, but his face is very plain and his moods prone to frequent change. Impetuous and sensual, he falls madly in love with Jane because her simplicity, bluntness, intellectual capacity and plainness contrast so much with those of the shallow society women to whom he is accustomed. But his unfortunate marriage to the maniacal Bertha Mason postpones his union with Jane, and he loses a hand and his eyesight while trying to rescue his mad wife after she sets a fire that burns down Thornfield. He is a Byronic hero.
Bertha Mason: The violently insane secret wife of Edward Rochester. From the West Indies and of Creole extraction, her family possesses a strong strain of madness, of which Rochester did not know until, lured by her wealth and beauty, he had married her. Her insanity manifests itself in a few years, and Rochester resorts to imprisoning her in the attic of Thornfield Manor. But she escapes four times ring the novel and wreaks havoc in the house, the fourth time actually burning it down and taking her own life in the process.
Adèle Varens: A naive, vivacious and rather spoiled French child to whom Jane is governess at Thornfield. She is Rochester's ward because her mother, Celine Varens, an opportunistic French opera dancer and singer, was Rochester's mistress. Rochester does not believe himself to be Adèle's father. Although not particularly fond of her, he nonetheless extends the little girl the best of care. In time, she grows up to be a very pleasant and well-mannered young woman.
Mrs. Alice Fairfax: An elderly widow and housekeeper of Thornfield Manor. She treats Jane kindly and respectfully, but disapproves of her engagement to Mr Rochester. She believes that marriages should be limited to one's own class.
Blanche Ingram: A beautiful but very shallow socialite whom Mr. Rochester appears to court in order to make Jane jealous. Blanche despises the rather dowdy protagonist because she is a governess. Later Jane discovers Blanche Ingram did not love Mr. Rochester but rather his fortune.
Richard Mason: A strangely blank-eyed but handsome Englishman from the West Indies, he stops Jane and Rochester's wedding with the proclamation that Rochester is still married to Bertha Mason, his sister.
St. John Eyre Rivers: A clergyman who is Jane Eyre's cousin on her father's side. He is a devout, almost fanatical Christian of Calvinistic leanings. He is charitable, honest, patient, forgiving, scrupulous, austere and deeply moral; with these qualities alone, he would have made a saint. But he is also proud, cold, exacting, controlling and unwilling to listen to dissenting opinions. He was in love with Rosamond Oliver, but did not propose to her because he felt that she would not make a "suitable" wife. Jane venerates him and likes him, regarding him as a brother, but she refuses to marry him because he doesn't love her and is incapable of real kindness.
Diana and Mary Rivers: St. John's sisters and Jane's cousins, they are kind and intellectual young women who contrive to lead an independent life while retaining their intelligence, purity and sense of meaning in life. Diana warns Jane against marrying her icy brother.
Grace Poole: Bertha Mason's keeper, a frumpish woman verging on middle age. She drinks gin immoderately, occasionally giving her maniacal charge a chance to escape. Rochester and Mrs. Fairfax attribute all of Bertha's misdeeds to her.
Rosamond Oliver: The rather shallow and coquettish, but beautiful and good-natured daughter of Morton's richest man. She donates the funds to launch the village school because she is in love with St. John. However, as St.John refuses to let himself love her, she in time becomes engaged to the wealthy Mr. Granby.
John Eyre: Jane's paternal uncle, who leaves her his vast fortune of 20,000 pounds. He never appears as a character. Has distant relations with St. John. Leaves him and his sisters 31 pounds and 10 shillings (i.e. 30 guineas) as a result. Jane divides her 20,000 pounds amongst the four of them (St. John, Mary, Diana and herself) leaving each with 5,000 pounds.
㈨ 誰有簡愛英文片段的賞析
The hero Jane thin figure, appearance is ordinary, no money, no status, but had not ordinary temperament and very abundant emotion world. In her life through the, abandoned women born craven and charming soft graally formed the strong and independent personality. She won't be in the cousin cruel freewill pours before, but neither. Even if the result unsatisfactory, but always not bowed their heads; Like the devil in the cold, brock Mr Hirst torture, she doesn't show any fear, but easy it down, independent strong to survive. Read Jane eyre, I for young she by the abuse and grief, with empathy with the experience that young Jane of bucolic minds were hurt. I also for Jane and mp. Like her in her high position is the so-called gentry in front performance of that kind of thus attitude, like her in the face of love is showing of that kind of self-esteem strength of spirit, in the heart can't help sigh from her place in the age of two hundred years of progress of modern, again a few women have the courage to their dignity and for a beloved and rich man said not? Jane can! In her time on flash across the a independent personality and lofty splendor!!!!!
㈩ 簡愛的英文人物分析
Jane Eyre: The protagonist and title character, orphaned as a baby. She is a plain-featured and reserved but talented, empathetic, hard-working, honest (not to say blunt), and passionate girl. Skilled at studying, drawing, and teaching, she works as a governess at Thornfield Manor and falls in love with her wealthy employer, Edward Rochester. But her strong sense of conscience does not permit her to become his mistress, and she does not return to him until his insane wife is dead and she herself has come into an inheritance.
Mr. Reed: Jane's maternal uncle. He adopts Jane when her parents die. Before his own death, he makes his wife promise to care for Jane.
Mrs. Sarah Reed: Jane's aunt by marriage, who resides at Gateshead. Because her husband insists, Mrs. Reed adopts Jane. Jane, however, receives nothing but neglect and abuse at her hands. At the age of ten, Jane is sent away to school. Years later, Jane attempts to reconcile with her aunt, but Mrs. Reed spurns her, still resenting that her husband loved Jane more than his own children. Shortly afterward, Mrs. Reed dies of a stroke.
John Reed: Mrs. Reed's son, and Jane's cousin. He is Mrs. Reed's "own darling," though he bullies Jane constantly, sometimes in his mother's presence. He goes to college, ruining himself and Gateshead through gambling. Word comes of his death; his decision to commit suicide.
Eliza Reed: Mrs. Reed's elder daughter, and Jane's cousin. Bitter because she is not as attractive as her sister, Georgiana Reed, she devotes herself self-righteously to Catholicism. After her mother's death, she enters a French convent, where she eventually becomes the Mother Superior.
Georgiana Reed: Mrs. Reed's younger daughter, and Jane's cousin. Though spiteful and insolent, she is inlged by everyone at Gateshead because of her beauty. In London, Lord Edwin Vere falls in love with her, but his relations are against their marriage. Lord Vere and Georgiana decide to elope, but Eliza finds them out. Georgiana returns to Gateshead, where she grows plump and vapid, spending most of her time talking of her love affair. After Mrs. Reed's death, she marries a wealthy but worn-out society man.
Bessie Lee: The nursemaid at Gateshead. She sometimes treats Jane kindly, telling her stories and singing her songs. Later she marries Robert Leaven.
Robert Leaven: The coachman at Gateshead, who sometimes gives Jane a ride on Georgiana's bay pony. He brings Jane to Lowood Institution. Months after she goes to Thornfield Hall, he brings her the news of John Reed's death, which had brought on Mrs. Reed's stroke.
Mr. Lloyd: A compassionate apothecary who recommends that Jane be sent to school. Later, he writes a letter to Miss Temple confirming Jane's account of her childhood and thereby clearing Jane of Mrs. Reed's charge of lying.
Mr. Brocklehurst: The arrogant, hypocritical clergyman who serves as headmaster and treasurer of Lowood School. He embezzles the school's funds in order to pay for his family's opulent lifestyle. At the same time, he preaches a doctrine of Christian austerity and self-sacrifice to everyone in hearing. When his dishonesty is brought to light, he is made to share his office of inspector and treasurer with more kindly people, who greatly improve the school.
Miss Maria Temple: The kind, attractive young superintendent of Lowood School. She recognizes Mr. Brocklehurst for the cruel hypocrite he is, and treats Jane and Helen with respect and compassion. She helps clear Jane of Mrs. Reed's false accusation of deceit.
Miss Scatcherd: A sour and vicious teacher at Lowood. She behaves with particular cruelty toward Helen, using her as a scapegoat for anything and everything.
Helen Burns: An angelic fellow-student and best friend of Jane's at Lowood School. Several years older than the ten-year-old Jane, she stoically accepts all the cruelties of the teachers and the deficiencies of the school's room and board. She refuses to hate the tyrannical Mr. Brocklehurst or the vicious Miss Scatcherd, or to complain, believing in the New Testament teaching that one should love one's enemies and turn the other cheek. Jane reveres her for her profound Christianity, even though she herself believes that returning hate for hate is necessary to prevent evil from taking over. Helen, uncomplaining as ever, dies of consumption in Jane's arms. In the book it is noted that she was buried in an unmarked grave until some years later, when a marble gravestone with her name and the word 'Resurgam' inscribed on it appears. The possible inference is that this was provided by Jane.
Edward Fairfax Rochester: The owner of Thornfield Manor, and Jane's lover and eventual husband. He possesses a strong physique and great wealth, but his face is very plain and his moods prone to frequent change. Impetuous and sensual, he falls madly in love with Jane because her simplicity, bluntness, intellectual capacity and plainness contrast so much with those of the shallow society women to whom he is accustomed. But his unfortunate marriage to the maniacal Bertha Mason postpones his union with Jane, and he loses a hand and his eyesight while trying to rescue his mad wife after she sets a fire that burns down Thornfield. He is a Byronic hero.
Bertha Mason: The violently insane secret wife of Edward Rochester. From the West Indies and of Creole extraction, her family possesses a strong strain of madness, of which Rochester did not know until, lured by her wealth and beauty, he had married her. Her insanity manifests itself in a few years, and Rochester resorts to imprisoning her in the attic of Thornfield Manor. But she escapes four times ring the novel and wreaks havoc in the house, the fourth time actually burning it down and taking her own life in the process.
Adè Varens: A naive, vivacious and rather spoiled French child to whom Jane is governess at Thornfield. She is Rochester's ward because her mother, Celine Varens, an opportunistic French opera dancer and singer, was Rochester's mistress. Rochester does not believe himself to be Adèle's father. Although not particularly fond of her, he nonetheless extends the little girl the best of care. In time, she grows up to be a very pleasant and well-mannered young woman.
Mrs. Alice Fairfax: An elderly widow and housekeeper of Thornfield Manor. She treats Jane kindly and respectfully, but disapproves of her engagement to Mr Rochester. She believes that marriages should be limited to one's own class.
Blanche Ingram: A beautiful but very shallow socialite whom Mr. Rochester appears to court in order to make Jane jealous. Blanche despises the rather dowdy protagonist because she is a governess. Later Jane discovers Blanche Ingram did not love Mr. Rochester but rather his fortune.
Richard Mason: A strangely blank-eyed but handsome Englishman from the West Indies, he stops Jane and Rochester's wedding with the proclamation that Rochester is still married to Bertha Mason, his sister.
St. John Eyre Rivers: A clergyman who is Jane Eyre's cousin on her father's side. He is a devout, almost fanatical Christian of Calvinistic leanings. He is charitable, honest, patient, forgiving, scrupulous, austere and deeply moral; with these qualities alone, he would have made a saint. But he is also proud, cold, exacting, controlling and unwilling to listen to dissenting opinions. He was in love with Rosamond Oliver, but did not propose to her because he felt that she would not make a "suitable" wife. Jane venerates him and likes him, regarding him as a brother, but she refuses to marry him because he doesn't love her and is incapable of real kindness.
Diana and Mary Rivers: St. John's sisters and Jane's cousins, they are kind and intellectual young women who contrive to lead an independent life while retaining their intelligence, purity and sense of meaning in life. Diana warns Jane against marrying her icy brother.
Grace Poole: Bertha Mason's keeper, a frumpish woman verging on middle age. She drinks gin immoderately, occasionally giving her maniacal charge a chance to escape. Rochester and Mrs. Fairfax attribute all of Bertha's misdeeds to her.
Rosamond Oliver: The rather shallow and coquettish, but beautiful and good-natured daughter of Morton's richest man. She donates the funds to launch the village school because she is in love with St. John. However, as St.John refuses to let himself love her, she in time becomes engaged to the wealthy Mr. Granby.
John Eyre: Jane's paternal uncle, who leaves her his vast fortune of 20,000 pounds. He never appears as a character. Has distant relations with St. John. Leaves him and his sisters 31 pounds and 10 shillings (i.e. 30 guineas) as a result. Jane divides her 20,000 pounds amongst the four of them (St. John, Mary, Diana and herself) leaving each with 5,000 pounds.