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Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane
Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by Eng
lish writer Charlotte Bronte, published under
the penname “Currer Bell” on 16 October
1847. Jane Eyre follows the experiences of
its eponymous heroine, including her growth
to adulthood and her love for M r Rochester.
The novel redolutionized prose fiction by
being the first to focus on its protagonist’s
moral and spiritual development through
an intimate first-person narrative, where
actions and events are coloured b y a
psychological intensity. Charlotte Bronte
has been called the “first historian o f the
private consciousness” , and the literary
ancestor o f writers like Proust and Joyce.
Jane, a 10-year-old girl, lives with her
uncle’s family because her parents are
dead. Her uncle is always kind to her but his
wife, Sarah Reed is not. Sarah’s son John
and Sarah’s two daughters also hate Jane.
They often try to hurt her. She is later sent
to the Lowood Institution, a charity school,
where she and the other poor girls have bad
conditions of life. But in spite of that, she
finds friends there and becomes strong.
After several years as a student, she
becomes a teacher at Lowood, but she
dreams about how to leave this place. She
finds work at Thornfield Hall, where she
meets the master of the house, rich and
proud Edward Rochester.
At Thornfield, Jane looks after young
Adele, the daughter of a French dancer
who was living there. She meets a very kind
woman, the housekeeper Mrs Alice Fairfax.
Jane loves Rochester. Rochester loves
Jane too and wants to marry her. However,
on their wedding day, Jane learns that
Rochester cannot legally marry her, because
he already has a wife, Bertha Mason, who
has gone mad and is locked away on the
third floor because of her illness. Jane
now understands the strange noises that
she heard in the house. Rochester was not
honest with Jane but he loves her. He
suggests joining him and going to France
together, where they could live as husband
and wife. But Jane does not want to live
against the law. She has her rules of life and
she leaves Thornfield.
Jane is taken in by people she later dis
covers are her cousins. One of them is St.
John, a religious man. He gives her a job
and soon wants to marry her and take her to
India. At first Jane agrees to leave with him
but not as his wife.
Just then, she always hears a strange
voice of Rochester in her mind. Jane returns
to Thornfield and finds the house burned,
set on fire by Rochester’s wife, who then
jumped to her death. Rochester tried to
save her, but was blinded. Jane and Ro
chester are happy to be together and they
get married. Rochester later has the ability
to see again, and the couple have a son.
Jane Eyre was used in various films, TV and
stage plays, including a 1943 movie that sta r
red Orson Welles as R ochester and Joan
Fontaine as Jane.
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What is the role of music? What is the relationship
between music preferences and personality?_____
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In t h i s u n i t y o u w i l l
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s use signal words for steps in a process
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of personality
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s create a pie graph_________________________
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giving examples
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com pleting a T-chart__________
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