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Chapter 1 -

Intro to Jane Eyre, the Reeds and the maids

Jane Eyre is beaten by John Reed and is locked up in a red room for retaliating.

Chapter 2 -

In the red-room

Where Mr. Reed died

Thinks she sees ghost and screams to be let out but Mrs. Reed says that she acting and has to stay an hour longer

She passes out with fits.

Chapter 3 - causes her to be ill

Mr. Lloyd - physician, comes to check her health

Suggests that she gets sent to school.

She is excluded from Christmas and New Year celebrations

Chapter 4 -

Meets Mr Brocklehurst from Lowood school comes to

administrate her

Mrs Reed - "Mr. Brocklehurst, I believe I intimated in the letter which I wrote to you three weeks ago, that this little girl has not quite the character and disposition I could wish: should you admit her into Lowood school, I should be glad if the superintendent and teachers were requested to keep a strict eye on her, and, above all, to guard against her worst fault, a tendency to deceit. I mention this in your hearing, Jane, that you may not attempt to impose on Mr. Brocklehurst."

"I should wish her to be brought up in a manner suiting her prospects," continued my benefactress; "to be made useful, to be kept humble: as for the vacations, she will, with your permission, spend them always at Lowood."

Jane Eyre then tells Mrs Reed everything she thinks about her

=> This an important part as it is the first time she really stands up for herself in front of her and wins.

Chapter 5 –

Four days after meeting Mr Brocklehurst Jane travels alone to Lowood.

On arrival, the day is dark and rainy, and she is led through a grim building that will be her new home.

Introduced to her classmates and learns the daily routine, which keeps the girls occupied from before dawn until dinner.

The superintendent Miss Temple is kind, while one of her teachers Miss Scatcherd is mean in how she treats her friend Helen Burns.

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Jane Eyre

Possesses sense of her self-worth and dignity

and commitment of justice and principle

Religious

Integrity is continually tested throughout

the course of the novel

Orphan and was mistreated by her aunt reed and cousins

Feels the need to belong somewhere

Falls in love with Mr. Rochester

Simple

Does not expect much

Attended boarding school when she was young

Mr. Rochester

Wealthy man

In love with Jane but is already married

Mysterious

Haunted by the past

Egotistic

Locks his crazy wife in the attic

Has a child

Mrs. Fairfax

Housekeeper of Mr Rochester

Mother figure towards Jane

Doesn't approve of Jane’s and Rochester’s

marriage because of their age gap and social class

Bertha Mason(wife)

Crazy

Sets fire to the house

Commits suicide

Stabs and bites

her brother Mr. Mason

Known as the haunting ghost of the household

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·15th June, 1844– the factory act (limiting working hours to 12 for women, and 6 for children aged 6-13)

·28th September 1844– blackdamp explosion at Haswell Colliery (killed 95 people and only 4 survivors)

·20th January 1843– Prime Minister’s private secretary shot and killed, not found guilt said to be insane, this gave rise to the rules on criminal responsibility

·25th march 1843– Thames tunnel built

·September 1843– The economist published

·October 1843– News of the World published

·1845– potato famine in Ireland

·1826– First photo taken

·1832– The Reform Act

·1834– Slavery banned (wide Sargasso sea)

·1847– Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights published

·Charles Dickens also a successful novelist in this era

·1851– first telegraph cable across English channel, first cigarettes sold, hald of englands population live in cities,

·1851– Londons population grows to 2.7 million

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·Born in Yorkshire, England on April 21 1816

·Mother died when she was 5, her aunt helped her brother-in-law raise his children

·In 1824, Charlotte and her sisters Maria, Elizabeth and Emily were sent to Cowan Bridge, a school for clergymen’s daughters

·Maria and Elizabeth got tuberculosis

·Charlotte returned to school and became a teacher in 1835

·Became a private governess instead

·They hired her to live with and tutor the children of the wealthy Sidgewick family in 1839, she hated it and left .

·Then returned to work as a governess however for a different family, she was disappointed again and recruited her sisters to join her in more serious preparation for the establishment of a school

·The school was unsuccessful, however their literary projects flourished

·They published a book of poems, then decided to work on separate novels

·First book was The Professor, but it was never found, her second novel Jane Eyre was written in 1845 which was one of the most successful novels of the era

·The book was a critique of Victorian assumptions about gender and social class

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Jane’s employer and the master of Thornfield

Wealthy and passionate man with a dark secret that provides much of the novel’s suspense.

Wins Jane’s heart

Rochester is a passionate man, often guided by his senses rather than by his rational mind.

Rather than maintaining proper class boundaries, Rochester makes Jane feel "as if he were my relation rather than my master."

When he meets Jane, He is willing to give up his wild, dissipated life on the continent, as he's searching for freshness and freedom

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Orphan since early childhood

Feels unhappy in the beginning of the novel as she receives cruel treatment from her Aunt Reed and her cousins

Afraid she will never find a true sense of home or community

She feels the need to belong somewhere

In search for freedom

First-person narrator and protagonist

Reading, education, and creativity are all essential components of Jane's growth, factors that help her achieve her final success.

Stories provide Jane with an escape from her unhappy domestic situation

Her strong belief in gender and social equality challenges the Victorian prejudices against women and the poor.

Falls in love with her employer, the dark and disturbing Mr. Rochester

Her life becomes more complicated when she runs away from a terrifying secret in Rochester's house and is faced with another option for her life.

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http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/summary.html