Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Bronte

The Novel

• Published in 1847.• Charlotte Bronte

published her novel under the name “Currer Bell” because women’s writing was not always accepted.

The Bronte Sisters•Charlotte had 4 sisters and 1 brother.

•While at the Clergy Daughter’s School, her 2 older sisters (Maria & Elizabeth) died of tuberculosis

•Anne and Emily Bronte were also successful writers.

Charlotte Bronte

• Born of Irish ancestry in 1816

• Lived at Haworth, a parsonage

• Mother died of cancer when Charlotte was 5 years old.

• In 1854 She marries her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nichols.

• The next year, she became pregnant, then ill. • She died a month before her 39th birthday

The Gothic in “Jane Eyre”

– Imprisoned women– A heroine who faces danger– Supernatural interventions at crucial moments in

the plot– A romantic reconciliation

The Romantic

–Championed for the rights of the individual over the demands of society.–Believed that humans

were inherently good–Valued imagination over

reason– Inspired by nature

• It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

• Charlotte Bronte