Themes in Jane Eyre 
Gender Relations
Social Class
Family and belonging
Religion and Morality
Marriage - Wealth, security, status, respectability. Jane marries for love. Equality within marriage.
Inheritance - woman's became the man's.
Rivers Family - Blood relatives - cousins
Thornfield - Mrs Fairfax, Adele, Mr Rochester
Lowood - Helen Burns and Miss Temple
Reed Family - arrogant, uncaring, rich, cruel.
Lowood - Brocklehurst's children and clothes compared with other children.
Mrs Fairfax - asks Jane to change clothes to have dinner with Rochester
Mrs Reed. Higher class -
John Reed will inherit.
Mr Rochester and Jane and marriage
St John- Missionary. Believes in what he's doing. Contrast to Rochester (Blanche & Jane)
Mr Brocklehurst Hypocrit
Theme - A fundamental and universal idea explored in a literary work.
Mrs Reed. promised from moral prespective to care for Jane
Mr and Mrs Rochester and son
Helen Burns - patient - forgiving - contrast to Brocklehurst and Jane (Passion)
Blanche Ingram
First male heir inherits - Rochester pressurised into first marriage.