“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself”
-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is the perfect Victorian classic, with the title being the name of the main protagonist.
Jane, an orphan kid living with her aunt and cousins at the Gateshead hall. As any other orphan of her time, she is pretty much treated very badly, to the extent of being locked up in a room to learn to ‘behave’.
Jane, a young kid of ten years, sent away to a religious boarding school – Lowood Institute. Even though she has good company, the inhabitants of the institution are constantly starved and cold for the lack of warm clothes.
Jane, a young lady now, works as a governess for two years in Lowood and goes on to be a private tutor to a little girl named Adele, at a country house called Thornfield. There she meets Mr. Rochester, the owner of the house and a series of events conspire between the two of them. Continue reading ““Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë”
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