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   Who is Jane Eyre?

   • A young girl named Jane Eyre sits in the drawing room reading Bewick’s History of British Birds. Jane’s aunt, Mrs. Reed, has forbidden her niece to play with her cousins Eliza, Georgiana, and the bullying John. John chides Jane for being a lowly orphan who is only permitted to live with the Reeds because of his mother’s charity.

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   What are the themes of Jane Eyre?

   • Themes of social class, gender relations, and injustice predominate throughout. Jane Eyre begins her story as an orphan raised by a wealthy and cultivated family, and this ambiguous social standing motivates much of the novel’s internal tension and conflict.

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   What influenced Jane Eyre?

   • Beginning with Jane’s experience in the red-room in Chapter 2, we sense a palpable atmosphere of mystery and the supernatural. Like Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre draws a great deal of its stylistic inspiration from the Gothic novels that were in vogue during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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   How does Jane Eyre get banished from Gateshead Hall?

   • The story opens on a rainy November day at Gateshead Hall. Jane Eyre, age 10, is banished from the company of the three Reed children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana, who are gathered happily around their mother in the drawing room. Jane settles down in a window seat to enjoy making up stories about the pictures in a nature book.

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   A summary of Chapters 1–4 in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Jane Eyre and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.

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   On a dreary afternoon in Gateshead Hall, the ten-year-old Jane Eyre, who has been forbidden by her Aunt from playing with her three cousins, finds a curtained window seat where she can read. Jane pages through a copy of the History of British Birds.

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   Summary. It is a cold, wet November afternoon when the novel opens at Gateshead, the home of Jane Eyre's relatives, the Reeds. Jane and the Reed children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana sit in the drawing room.

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   Jane Eyre, age 10, is banished from the company of the three Reed children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana, who are gathered happily around their mother in the drawing room. Jane settles down in a window seat to enjoy making up stories about the pictures in a nature book.

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   Jane Eyre Summary and Analysis of Volume I, Chapters 1-5. Volume I, Chapter 1 Summary: The novel begins with the ten-year-old Jane Eyre narrating from the home of the well-off Reed family in Gateshead Hall. Mr. Reed, Jane’s uncle, took her into his home after both of her parents died of typhus fever, but he soon died himself. Mrs.

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   Jane Eyre (Chap. 1) Lyrics. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner...

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    Plot summary: What happens in Jane Eyre? Chapter 1: The young Jane is isolated and alone. Summary; Why is this chapter important? Key theme: Isolation; Key character: Jane; Key quotation: Jane’s character; Top tip: Writing about language; Chapter 2: Jane in the red-room; Chapter 3: Jane receives some kindness; Chapter 4: Jane meets Mr ...