Jane Eyre characters
This girl is the narrator and the main hero of the novel. You know, she’s from that kind of girls who had a terrible destiny. Judge by yourselves: she is beautiful, intelligent, loyal, incredibly kind, smart, hard-working and not an egoist at all! But at the same time she was born to come...
This woman is the reason and the main figurant of the story’s suspense. She is precisely that secret which Rochester tried to hide. She is that secret wife. When she was younger, she used to be very beautiful, wealthy, smart and, mainly, a desire of all men. But through some years she became...
Well, we don’t know much about this character, as she doesn’t appear so often to memorize her. Grace Poole is chubby, middle-aged, red-haired dressmaker who works as a servant at Thornfield Hall. Also, she is secretly the nursemaid and correctional officer for the insane Bertha Mason...
Blanche Ingram is, let’s be honest, not a beautiful girl. The daughter of one of Rochester’s distant neighbors, Blanche gets interested in him because of his fortune and because she thinks an ugly husband would be easy to dominate. She’s a beautiful, selfish snob with a severe...
Adèle is Jane’s pupil at Thornfield, a little French girl just under ten years old, the daughter of Céline Varens who is an opera dancer who was Rochester’s love sometime ago. When Jane first meets her, Adèle’s only been in England for a few months, and...
John has an exciting role in the story. He is not a dynamic one, but, he is described as a total opposite to the Rochester. He is cold, reserved and tries to control everything. When Jane appears in his house, he falls in love with her. Being a bit weird in showing his feelings he, unfortunately...
Hero of Helen Burns is not dynamic. Why? Because we don’t meet with this girl very often in the book. Nevertheless, she was Jane’s best friend at Lowood school, the one in the world who cares about Jane. That’s why at the same time we care about Helen as much as about Jane. She...
Exactly this director of Lowood school ruined the first impression about Jane and her healthy life there. He is from that type of man who cares about himself, his needs and desires. He likes people who have a lot of money, because they can give it to him, sorry, to his school, obviously (really...
Well, at the beginning of the novel we can think that John, Eliza, Georgina are just kids who don’t understand what they do. At least John, being the eldest, knows for sure what he’s doing, that he is beating Jane for no reason. He was cruel, spoiled, and ‘mamma’s...
This lovely girl is Eliza and John’s sister, daughter of Mrs.Reed. She’s different from her sister, while Eliza is close, thin and tall, Georgina is plump, not very tall and lovely blond. During her life, she has a lot of romances and admires. She even would have eloped with a...
Eliza is a cousin of Jane, one of two daughters of Mrs.Reed. When she was little, she doesn’t like Jane as like her brother and sister. But, probably, it was because of the gregarious instinct. When she was elder we see that she isn’t beautiful, she isn’t very smart or...
Bessie is Jane’s childhood nursemaid; she’s not exactly perfect, because she has a hot temper and behaves pretty inconsistently to Jane - sometimes bringing her treats, sometimes punishing her for nothing at all, sometimes forgetting her entirely for a bit, but she’s the closest...
Rosamond Oliver is described for us as the beautiful young woman whom St. John is in love with. In fact, he won’t allow himself to marry because she wouldn’t make a good missionary wife. We suspect that he also enjoys torturing himself by denying his passion for her. For some time...
This handsome guy is a master of Thornfield and employer for Jane. By the way, he is a person whom Jane loves very much. He is wealthy. If he lived in the 21st century, he could buy several yachts and houses. Nevertheless, he is the one who has a dark secret from his past; exactly his story makes...
Remember Jabe has the only close relatives who took her after parents’ death? Mr.Reed was a brother of Jane’s father and loved Jane very much; he always cared about poor girl more than about his own. Once he got sick and died; his wife Mrs. Reed was the next one to take care of Jane...
Miss Temple is one of the good characters in the novel. She is kind-hearted, fair and always ready to help all those deprived by destiny girls. She treats Jane and Helen with respect and compassion. With Bessie Lee, she is one of the first good females who appeared in Jane’s life. Finally...
These two kind girls are sunshine in Jane’s life. They are St. John’s sisters and Jane’s cousins. Diana and Mary Rivers are gentle, compassionate, educated young women who take to Jane immediately. Mary isn’t shown much in the novel, that’s why we can sum that she...