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Jane Eyre

Lowood Characters

Gateshead Characters

Thornfield Characters

Aunt Reed

John Reed

Uncle Reed

Servants

Moor House Characters

Helen Burns

Mr. Brocklehurst

Miss Temple

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Jane arrives as a governess

Rumors that the mansion is haunted

She is looking after Adele

Mrs. Fairfax conducts her interview

Daughter of Celia Varens

Speaks no English, only French

Conflicts

Man vs Man

Edward Rochester

Mrs. Fairfax

Blanche Ingram

Grace Poole

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❓ How common were governesses at that time?

Brother of Jane's mother

IMG_6945 Made Aunt Reed promise to take care of Jane after his death.

Prologue: Jane's parents are dead. She is adopted by the Reeds, but her uncle dies too.

Dead parents IMG_6944

Only related to Jane by marriage

Chapter 1

Jane is 9 years old

She is attacked by her cousin John Reed

Jane attacks John to defend herself, and Aunt Reed punishes her by locking her in the Red Room

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Room where Uncle Reed died

No one goes inside

Jane's home as an orphaned child, belonging to her mother's brother (uncle)

Man vs setting

The scene in the Red Room is evidence of this conflict. Jane is locked inside and becomes terrified when forced to confront mortality (the possibility of encountering her uncle's ghost).

Theme: Existentialism - man is alone, there are no spirits.

Chapter 2

Jane freaks out in the Red Room

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Abusive towards Jane!!

Heir to Gateshead

Georgiana

One more female cousin

Is artistic

Likes to read

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There she is

Mentioned a few times

Not important enough to make it into the comic

"Mrs. Reed probably considered she had kept this promise; and so she had, I dare say, as well as her nature would permit her; but how could she really like an interloper not of her race, and unconnected with her, after her husband’s death, by any tie?" Chapter 2.5

Aunt Reed does not let Jane out

Bessie

Abbot

Doctor ?

Human Experience

Has a chimney that spirits might "come down"

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Man vs God

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