简爱作品赏析英文
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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 简爱赏析英文版
这篇比较合适:
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 简爱的评析（英语PPT）
简爱》的问世曾经轰动了十九世纪的文坛，它以一种不可抗拒的美感吸引了成千上万的读者，有一种抑制不住的冲动，驱使人拿起这本书，随之深深感动，心灵也为之震颤。
这是一部带有自转色彩的长篇小说，是英国十九世纪著名三姐妹作家之一的夏洛蒂*勃朗特所著。这是一本用自己的心与强烈的精神追求铸炼成的一本书，含着作者无限的情感和个性魅力，为女性赢得了一片灿烂的天空。
主人公简爱身材瘦小，相貌平凡，无金钱、无地位，却有着不平凡的气质和非常丰富的情感世界。她在生活的磨练中，抛弃了女性天生的懦弱与娇柔逐渐养成了坚强独立的个性。她不会在表兄残暴面前甘心被辱，而是据理力争。即使结果不尽人意，却始终如一没有低头；在魔鬼般冷酷的布洛克尔赫斯先生的折磨下，她不会表现出任何恐惧，而是从容的扛下来，独立坚强的活下来。读《简爱》，我为幼年的她所受到的虐待而悲愤，感同身受般的体会着简爱那幼小敏感的心灵所受的伤害。我也为简爱而倾倒。喜欢她在地位比她高的所谓上流社会人士面前表现出的那种不卑不亢的态度，喜欢她在面对爱时表现出的的那种自尊自强的精神，心中不禁感叹在距离她所处的年代进步了二百年的现代，又有几个女子有勇气为了自己的尊严而对一个心爱又富有的男子说不呢？简爱就可以！在她的身上时刻闪现着一种独立人格的壮美与崇高！
“你以为，就因为我穷，低微，不美，我就没有心，没有灵魂吗？我跟你一样有灵魂，也完全一样有一颗心。要是上帝也赐予我美貌和财富的话，我也会让你难以离开我，就像我现在难以离开你一样！”每次读《简爱》的时候，都会被这段话所震撼。正如爱德华所说的，简“如一只发疯的鸟儿拼命撕掉自己的羽毛。”这是一种强烈的自我释放，一种悲与爱交织起来的“支配一切、战胜一切、压倒一切”的力量。她在用自己的语言和行动表明：自己有权平等地追求一份属于自己的爱情。她不美、卑微，却以自己的独特气质吸引着所有的人。两性之间是平等的，女子必须有独立的人格，自尊自爱，不依附于其他人才可以赢得别人的尊重和热爱，才会有真正的幸福。爱情须以平等和互相独立作为基础，不是一味地接受对方的给予。假若简爱选择留下，甘心当个无名无分、近乎情妇的妻子，罗切斯特会像当初那样痴爱着她吗？他爱的是不卑不亢、自尊自重的简爱，不是一个躲在他怀中只懂得接受疼爱的女子！简爱是一代又一代的女性心中最平易近人的偶像，她不会难以靠近，她的影子飘散在我们的周围，以她为准则，大家都可以生活的自信坦荡，都可以沿着命运给予的线索找到自己真正的幸福所在。
而在当今的现实世界里，人们都疯狂的似乎为了金钱和地位而淹没爱情。在穷与富之间选择富，在爱与不爱之间选择不爱。很少有人会像简这样为爱情为个体的人格尊严抛弃所有，而且义无反顾。也许当人们穷得只剩下钱时，他们会去追求“真爱“。可被铜臭熏过的精神还配拥有真爱吗？也许到了化繁为简返朴归真的时候了。在追求物质生活的时候，应该在生活中灌注一些真情和温情，追求一份本真的温馨、和谐和宽容。让我们也追求全心付出的感觉，不计得失的简化的感情。纯净的像一杯水，缓缓地洒落人间。
从世俗的喧嚣浮华中脱离出来，静下心来细细地品读《简爱》吧，去和简爱的灵魂对话。简爱就是一个童话，她让我们相信，拥有了独立人格并可以自尊、自爱、自立、自信的女子，即使是一株野百合，也会有自己的骄傲，也会找到属于自己的永远的春天。
希望对楼主有帮助。
㈤ 简爱英文赏析
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 《简爱》摘抄好句好段加赏析英文版
搜一下：《简爱》摘抄好句好段加赏析英文版
㈦ 《简爱》英文版经典段落及翻译
简爱英文版经典段落及翻译："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，在上床睡觉的时候，我忘记了在想象中准备了晚餐、烤土豆、白面包和新牛奶，我习惯用这种方式来满足我内心的渴望。”我在黑暗中看到了理想的图画，这是我亲手做的一切。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. 简在她变得很舒服，并且在罗沃德表现出色之后，写了这一点。她不再沉溺于食物或其他物质的匮乏，而是更加关注她不断膨胀的思想和她能做的事情。
㈧ 简爱的人物英文分析，给我全文好吗谢谢
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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 谁有简爱英文片段的赏析
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 简爱的英文人物分析
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.