Synopsis of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In the novel Jane Eyre, it narrates the story of a young, orphaned girl. The story begins shortly after Jane walk around Gateshead Hall and evolves within the different situations she face growing up. During Jane’s life the people she encounter has impact her growth and the character she has become.
After the death of Jane’s parents, her uncle Mr. Reed has taken her in with his family to a mansion called Gateshead Hall. Nine years after Jane uncle has past she has been trapped in Gateshead Hall while suffering the bitter treatment of her aunt Mrs. Reed. Mrs. Reed was resentful of her husband’s favoritism toward Jane and takes every opportunity to neglect and punish her. When Jane is punished by Mrs. Reed she would be sent to the red room by two of Mrs. Reed servants, Bessie and Miss Abbot. The red-room was “a spare chamber, it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion” and in this every same chamber is where Jane uncle past (8). Not only did Mrs. Reed treat disrespectfully but her own son, Jane’s older cousin John Reed. John Reed would abuse and punish Jane several times a day, in the words of Jane; “every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh on my bones shranked when he came near”(4). Everyone would ignore Jane’s plea for help especially Mrs. Reed who would act be blind and deaf on the subject. No one except for Mr. Reed show any love and care for Jane during her childhood in Gateshead Hall. Jane said “I was a discord in Gateshead Hall; I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage” (10). Jane continued by saying that they did not love her not if as little she loved them. Although the family mistreats her, Jane still wished for the atte...

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...his journey to India. When St. John decided to propose to Jane, she denied because she felt that man and women cannot be married if they have no affections towards one another. However Jane accepts St. John request to go to India as a free woman and not his missionary wife. Jane once again want to be free and be able to make her on decisions and that how St. John influence Jane to be in the matter of time she spend away from Thornfield.
Throughout the novel Jane Eyre, true character was form by the people she encountered overtime from her childhood to her early adult stages. Jane’s travel has also impact the growth of Jane into being the character Charlotte Bronte wanted the audience to see farther in the novel. All Jane really wanted was Happiness and by traveling and meeting different people she was searching for that happiness that she never got as a child.