Jane Eyre Charcater Study
Jane Eyre Charcater StudyJane Eyre is a story of a girl who, after enduring many hardships in life, finally finds true love and her own bit of happiness. It chronicles her life from the age of ten. After staying with abusive relatives she is sent to a boarding school run by a stingy, cold-hearted old man named Mr. Brocklehurst. Her best friend there, Helen Burns dies when the school is hit by a fever epidemic. Guided by a kindly teacher, Miss Temple, Jane stays at the school to teach.
When she is eighteen she seeks another job teaching a young French girl named Adele at Thornfield Hall. During her stay at Thornfield, Jane falls in love with Adele’s almost-forty guardian Mr.Rochester. She agrees to marry him, but on the day of the wedding Jane discovers a terrible secret. Mr.Rochester is married to an insane woman who lives on the third floor of his house. Jane leaves, angry and heartbroken. After many trials and tribulations, they find each other again and marry. Throughout the story many people touched Jane Eyre’s life. In this essay I will discuss three of those characters. Bessie, who I loved, Mr.Brocklehurst, who I greatly disliked, and Helen Burns who I would love to be friends with.
After thinking for awhile about which character I liked the best I finally came up with Bessie the nurse at Gateshead. Although Bessie was a minor character at the beginning of the book she is still my favorite. This is for a number of reasons. For starters, although my first impression of her was that she was cruel and uncaring that quickly changed when she began to show kindness to Jane. Bessie was the first character in the book that cared about Jane. Even though she scolded Jane, one could tell she wasn’t meaning to be cold or evil. At the end of chapter four right before Jane leaves to go to school, she and Bessie have a conversation that proves that they care for each other. To quote evidence of this, in one paragraph Bessie says “I don’t dislike you, miss; I believe I am fonder of you than of all the others.” She also goes on to say “…I dare say now if I were to ask you for a kiss you wouldn’t give it to me: you’d say you’d rather not.” To which Jane replies “I’ll kiss you and welcome…” Her and Jane had formed a definite bond. One so strong that eight years later when Jane prepares to leave Lowood Institution to go teach Adele, Bessie visits her. She brings her children to show Jane. Later over coffee they discuss the last eight years. Also when John Reed died Bessie treated Jane as an old friend with warmth and acceptance. In my opinion Bessie made...
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