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The Book Report on Jane EyreJane Eyre is one of the most representative works in Charlotte Bronte’s life. This novel was published in August, 1847. This poetic, imaginative story of the love of a yo ung governess for her married employer had und0ubted connections with her experiences in Bruss els. It was an immediate success with both readers and most of the critics. All her novels were suc cessful. She paid much attention to the rights of women. She thought that women had the equal rig hts to work, to love and to live. In her works, there were many characteristics that fought for their equality, freedom and independence, Jane Eyre being the representative. From these characters, w e can see the shadow of Charlotte Bronte.Jane Eyre was an orphan. Both her father and mother had died when she was a baby, and the little girl was passed into the care of her relative, Mr. Reed, who was the brother of Jane’s mother. But after his death, Jane was treated badly. She was abused by the cruel aunt and neglect ed by the naughty cousins. One day a cousin knocked her to the floor. When she fought back, Mrs. Reed punished her by sending her to the gloomy Lowood School. Mrs. Reed cheated Mr. Brockle hurt that Jane was a very naughty girl and didn’t feel shameful for her rudeness. In the school, Jane was a diligent student, well-liked by her superi ors, especially by Miss Temple, the mistress, who refused to accept without proof by Mrs. Reed’s low estimate of Jane’s character. Although Jane was punished by Mr. Brocklehurt, her students still showed their kindne ss to her. Child as she was, she kept a bright heart to the situation. From the book we are learning, there was the poor situation where Jane and other girls were in. They were treated badly. They suff ered contempt from poverty. They didn’t have freedom and equality.Jane is a very successful image who is portrayed by Charlotte Bronte. Like Shelli, Lucy and Franc is, Jane is an orphan. She suffers2010级英语本科三班高东杰 22号a lot from the poor life. Although she is in disadvantage, she never gives herself up. She has the ch arm of character. She has the most valuable nature of ration. She is longing for purity. She has stab le belief and romantic ideas. She pursues the deep love. She doesn’t harm her dignity. She wants to let her mind free.Although she is poor, not beautiful, short and micro, she still has a complete soul. She wants to be treated equally. She is kind to the world. She has a deep love to the life.Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel, wealthy aunt. A servant named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives, telling her stories and singing songs to her. One day, aspunishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed, Jane’s aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room, the room in which Jane’s Uncle Reed died. While locked in, Jane, believing that she sees her uncle’s ghost, screams and faints. She wakes to find herself in the care of Bessie and the kindly apothecary Mr. Lloyd, who suggests to Mrs. Reed that Jane be sent away to school. To Jane’s delight, Mrs. Reed concurs.Once at the Lowood School, Jane finds that her life is far from idyllic. The school’s headmaster is Mr. Brocklehurst, a cruel, hypocritical, and abusive man. Brocklehurst preaches a doctrine of poverty and privation to his students while using the school’s funds to provide a wealthy and opulent lifestyle for his own family. At Lowood, Jane befriends a young girl named Helen Burns, whose strong, martyrlike attitude toward the school’s miseries is both helpful and displeasing to Jane. A massive typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, and Helen dies of consumption. The epidemic also results in the departure of Mr. Brocklehurst by attracting attention to the insalubrious conditions at Lowood. After a group of more sympathetic gentlemen takes Brocklehurst’s place, Jane’s life improves dramatically. She spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher.After teaching for two years, Jane yearns for new experiences. She accepts a governess position at a manor called Thornfield, where she teaches a lively French girl named Adèle. The distinguished housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax presides over the estate. Jane’s employer at Thornfield is a dark, impassioned man named Rochester, with whom Jane finds herself falling secretly in love. She saves Rochester from a fire one night, which he claims was started by a drunken servant named Grace Poole. But because Grace Poole continues to work at Thornfield, Jane concludes that she has not been told the entire story. Jane sinks into despondency when Rochester brings home a beautiful but vicious woman named Blanche Ingram. Jane expects Rochester to propose to Blanche. But Rochester instead proposes to Jane, who accepts almost disbelievingly.The wedding day arrives, and as Jane and Mr. Rochester prepare to exchange their vows, the voice of Mr. Mason cries out that Rochester already has a wife. Mason introduces himself as the brother of that wife—a woman named Bertha. Mr. Mason testifies that Bertha, whom Rochester married when he was a young man in Jamaica, is still alive. Rochester does not deny Mason’s claims, but he explains that Bertha has gone mad. He takes the wedding party back to Thornfield, where they witness the insane Bertha Mason scurrying around on all fours and growling like an animal. Rochester keeps Bertha hidden on the third story of Thornfield and pays Grace Poole to keep his wife under control. Bertha was the real cause of the mysterious fire earlier in the story. Knowing that it is impossible for her to be with Rochester, Jane flees Thornfield."Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?--a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!--I have as much soul as you,--and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;--it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal,--as we are!"。