Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre, the main character of the book tells the story in the first person. It takes place at the end of George III's reign, somewhere in the north of England (1760-1820) . There are five main phases: Jane's early years at Gateshead Hall, where her aunt and cousins abuse her physically and verbally; her education at Lowood School, where she makes friends but experiences deprivation and oppression; her time as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her enigmatic employer, Edward Fairfax Rochester; and her time in the Moor House, where her earnest but aloof clergyman cousin, St. John Rivers, proposes to her. It offers viewpoints on a variety of significant societal issues and concepts throughout these parts, many of which are critical of the status at the time it was written.. Sneak Peek: "It was by this time half-past five, and the sun was on the point of rising; but I found the kitchen still dark and silent. The side-passage door was fastened; I opened it with as little noise as possible: all the yard was quiet; but the gates stood wide open, and there was a post-chaise, with horses ready harnessed, and driver seated on the box, stationed outside. I approached him, and said the gentlemen were coming; he nodded: then I looked carefully round and listened. The stillness of early morning slumbered everywhere; the curtains were yet drawn over the servants' chamber windows; little birds were just twittering in the blossom-blanched orchard trees, whose boughs drooped like white garlands over the wall enclosing one side of the yard; the carriage horses stamped from time to time in their closed stables: all else was still."A celebrated search about love and belonging.