Jane Eyre's brief introduction

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Jane Eyre is an orphan being raised by Mrs.Reed, her cruel, rich aunt. One day Jane is published by her aunt for fighting with her cousin Jone Reed.Jane is locked into a red room, in which Jane's uncle died. While licked in, Jane believed that she sees her uncle's ghost. She screams and faint. After she wakes she finds herself is taken care if by Bessie, a servant, and Mr. Loyd, a businessman. Mr.Loyd suggests to Mrs. Reed that Jane be sent to school. To Jane's delight, Mrs. Reed agreed. The life at Lowood School is not as good as Jane expect. The headmaster, Mr. Brocklehurst is a cruel and unkind man. He is strict to his students with the school rules, while use the school's funds to provide his family a rich life. At Lowood, Jane meets a young girl named Helen Burns and becomes her friend. Helen's sweeps Lowood, and Helen dies of it. The headmaster is taken place of because of his failure of taking effective measures to control the disease in school. So Jane's life improves dramatically. She spends more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher. After teaching for two years, Jane wants to new experiences. She then accepts a family tutor job at a big house called Thomfield. There she teaches a lively French girl named Adele. Jane's employer is an impassioned man names Rochester. Jane find herself fall in love with him. Jane becomes depress when she see Rochester bring home a beautiful but bad woman. Jane believes that Rochester will propose to the women, but to her surprised, Rochester propose to Jane, and Jane agrees. The wedding day arrives. When Jane and Mr. Rochester prepare to exchange their rings, a man comes and cried out that Rochester already has a wife. Rochester is very surprised, but he does not deny the man's claim. He explains he does marry a woman named Bertha when he is young, but Bertha has gone mad. He takes the wedding party back to Thomifield, and they witness the mad women, bertha, who is hidden on the third floor of the building. Knowing that it is impossible for her to stay with Rochester, Jane escape from Thomfield. Jane can not get money so she beg for food and sleeps outdoors. At last she is saved by three persons, who are relatives and live together. On of them named John, who is a priest, find a job for Jane at a charity school in Morton. One day he tells Jane he is Jane's cousin, and Jane's uncle John Eyre has died and left her a large fortune:200,000 pounds. Jane is very surprised and decides to share this fortune equally with her three found relatives. John decides to travel to India as a missionary and he asks Jane to go with him as his wife. Jane agrees to go to India but refuses to marry his cousin because she does not love him. Jane still remembers the man she loves very much-Rochester and hurries back to Thomfield. She finds that Thomfield has been bumed to the ground by Bertha Mason, the mad women, who losther life in the fire. Rochester does not die but lost his eyesight and one of his hands. Jane and Rochester rebuild their relationship at Femdean, Rochester's new residence, and soon they marry. At the end of the story,Jane describes that she lives a very happy life and after two years of blindness, Rochester regains sight in one eye and is able to hold their first son with left hand. From the story, we can know Jane Eyre's character. At the beginning, Jane has her own sense of dignity, her principle. But they are challenged over the course of the novel, and Jane must learn to balance the conflicts to survival. As an orphan when she is a child, Jane feel exiled, and the cruel treatment she receives from her aunt Reed and her cousin only makes her feeling even worse. She is afraid that she will never find a true sense of home or community. Jane feels she need to belong to somewhere to find "kin", or at least "kindred spirits". This desire drives her to find freedom and autonomy. In her search for freedom, Jane also struggles with the question what type of freedom she wants. When Rocheter offer her a chance to release her passion. Jane relizes that such freedom also means as a slave. John River offers Jane another kind of freedom under which Jane can behave on her principles but Jane still find be prisoned because she does not love John and does not want to always keep passion on her face. Through this novel Jane's Courage to find love and freedom can be traced everywhere, and the development of her character is the center of the novel. From we can see a women who struggle with her fate and tries to find herself-worth and dignity.