Jane Eyre |
Author |
Charlotte Brontë |
Type |
Novel |
Genre |
Victorian, Gothic, Romantic, Coming-of-Age |
Written |
London, 1847 |
Published |
1847 |
Tone |
Gothic, Romantic |
Tense |
Past |
Point of View |
First-person |
Themes |
Love, Family and Independence, Social Position, Gender Issues, Religion, Feeling vs. Judgment, External and Internal Beauty |
Characters |
Bertha Mason, Edward Fairfax Rochester, Jane Eyre, St. John Rivers |
Symbols |
The Red-room, Madwoman, Eyes, Food, Portraits and Pictures |
Motifs |
Fire and Ice, Substitute Mothers |
End |
Jane writes that she has been married for ten years and that she and Rochester enjoy their life together. After two years of blindness, Rochester regained sight and was able to behold their first son at his birth |
Extra Facts |
1) Many parts of the novel are based on the on real-life Brontë 2) Charlotte Brontë's first novel was turned down by publishers nine times. After that, she wrote 'Jane Eyre' 3) Jane Eyre' was published under a male pseudonym Currer Bell |