Now an adult, Jane seeks a position as a governess and finds one at Thornfield Hall, in the employ of a Mr. When her aunt Reed can stand her no longer, Jane is sent to Lowood, a strict Christian school where Jane discovers, for the first time, her inner strength. As a child, she was left at the thin mercy of her aunt Reed and her three children she is unloved, physically abused, and told that she is wicked. Jane Eyre was orphaned as a babe and taken in by her uncle Reed, who soon followed her parents to the grave.

Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman about a young woman in the mid-1800s, beginning with her unfortunate childhood. (Except when it comes to Strange Case of Dr. The moral of the story is-don’t trust cultural osmosis. And then I couldn’t stop reading it-I had to know what happened next.

So I felt a little cocky as I began Jane Eyre there couldn’t be any surprises in store for me. For instance, I knew the basic plot of Jane Eyre well before I tucked into the novel for class-I’m a literary critic-in-training, for Pete’s sake! But I’d never read it-or, if I did attempt it at an early age (y’all know how bad my memory prior to fourteen is), I didn’t get very far. Jane Eyre, like the works of Jane Austen, is one of those novels that you feel you know from cultural osmosis.

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