Book report of Jane Eyre (ⅰ)

Tran 092 蒋坚荣 Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fictions.Charlotte Bronte(21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell.

Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character. The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family during which her earnest but cold clergyman-cousin St John Rivers proposes to her; and the finale with her reunion with and marriage to her beloved Rochester.

In the novel , Jane Eyre’s rebellion is obviously seen in resistance to cousin John Reeds, Mrs. Reed and the fate. Both parents died in

infectious illness, so ten-year old Jane was sent to Gateshed to be raised by Mrs. Reed. She was mistreated there, even looked down as less than a