• 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

·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

·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

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

• 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

• 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.