Jane Eyre
It is a text that’s about a girl whose parents left her at a very young age,her uncle took her in and she started living at his house with his wife and family.Few years later he died and Jane has to depend on his wife,she is cruel towards Jane and often maltreats her,she has three children;John,Eliza and Georgia,these children take after their mother and treat Jane with disdain,on a particular day,Jane picks up a book and decided to read,then John comes into her room and starts to beat her,he says she has no right to touch their books,the beating continues and Jane decides to fight back for the first time,she begins to fight John too and this is noticed by john’s mother,and without hearing her side of the story,she tells the maid to lock Jane in the red room,the room was where her uncle was before he died,she then thinks within herself that if her uncle is alive,he will actually be a good person,she then sees his ghost and shouts for someone to open the door,the maid bessie hears her voice and goes to open the door,as she brings her out,the wicked woman sees her and scolds the maid for letting her out,she then orders that she’d be taken back,while Jane gets back,she passes out and when she wakes up she found herself in her own bed.
Jane later decides to go to school,Lockwood high school,her aunt already told the school officials to treat her badly and when she finally gets admitted and the officials often do what they were told to.In the school they don’t give them good food,instances were made in the text,Jane meets a friend in school whose name is elyn burns,she taught Jane some basic things about the school and life.Soon the virus typhus spread in the school and so many students died because of it,janes best friend elyn also died during this period.
Jane spends the total of eight years in the school,six years as a student and two years as a teacher,she then feels like experiencing life outside the school walls and wrote a letter to the mail office to be a personal teacher for anyone who’s child needs one.few days later she was given reply and someone had booked her,she was glad,she was finally leaving Lockwood for good,few days later,she decides to move to the thornfield hall there’s she meets adele a French child and she’s her student.
Jane taught adele for some time and finally met her father mr rochester and they both had a conversation, and the two of them became found of each other. Jane didn’t realize when she falls in love with rochester and couldn’t stop thinking of him,he also felt the same way towards her and this bond was strong,rochester finally proposes to Jane and during this,a man disrupts and tells Jane that rochester’s wife is alive and she’s being kept in the attic because she’s mad,Jane couldn’t believe her hears and when she confirms that it is true,she packs her thing and leaves rochester’s house,she left and later found some distant members,she finds out that her father left a fortune for her,she shares it between those who took her in when she left rochester’s house;Mary and St. John.
Few weeks later she was informed that rochester’s mad wife burnt the house down and died in the fire and while rochester was trying to save her he got injured and one side of his body became paralyzed,Jane was already financially stable because of the fortune her father left,she goes to rochester’s place and at the end she married him.
From my view,I feel Jane truly loves rochester and has high standards and morals,she declined the proposal because she couldn’t take someone else’s husband and she has strong sense of self actualization.
