Jane Eyre Essay Examples

Charlotte Brontë

United Kingdom

Gothic
Bildungsroman
Romance

16 October 1847

Jane Eyre is the story of a young, orphaned girl (shockingly, she's named Jane Eyre) who lives with her aunt and cousins, the Reeds, at Gateshead Hall. Like all nineteenth-century orphans, her situation pretty much sucks. Mrs. Reed hates Jane and allows her son John to torment the girl.

The Red-Room, Fire and Ice, Eyes, Food, Portraits and Pictures

Love, Family, and Independence, Social Class and Social Rules, Gender Roles, Religion, Feeling vs. Judgment, The Spiritual and the Supernatural

Jane Eyre, Helen Burns, Mrs. Reed, Georgiana Reed, John Reed, Mr. Rochester