sábado, 15 de junio de 2013

CHARACTERS OF THE NOVEL.

Jane Eyre -  Jane is the protagonist and narrator of the novel.

*Physical characteristics:
Jane has got long dark hair. She is very beautiful lady. When she was young, she cut her hair tried help her friend.

*Emotional characteristics:
Jane is an intelligent, honest young girl. She is forced to content with oppression. She found the justice


Edward Rochester Jane's employer and the owner of Thornfield.

*Physical characteristics: a man is a great secret .tiene esconder.es moderately handsome man of fair complexion.

*Emotional characteristics: it is a mighty man, but ultimately friendly, as it has suffered too much in his youth and being the husband of bertha

St. John Rivers -

* Physical characteristics: he has black hair and short. middle height and good complexion.

* Emotional characteristics: it is a great benefactor to jane eyre

  Mrs. Reed  -
* Physical characteristics: she has dark hair and always with a smile on his face

* Emotional characteristics: it is generally strict and harsh with jane eyre, and although jane wants to fix it, still angry with her ​​aunt jane

Helen Burns

* Physical characteristics: she was beautiful before her death, she had red hair and very nice, but the teachers decided to cut it.

* Emotional characteristics: feel a great appreciation for jane, and it was a great friend at Lowood School

Bertha Mason -

* Physical characteristics: it is a very pretty woman but his follies tend to the people around you see it differently.

* Emotional characteristics: it was violent, mentally insane and crazy bestial.su took her to burn on the third floor of Thornfield.

Grace Poole - 

* Physical characteristics: it is a tough and strong woman. is responsible for the safety of the school.

* Emotional characteristics: it is a brave woman, but her low self-esteem leads to heavy drinking, which he fled bertha.

Adèle Varens -

* Physical characteristics: it is a particularly beautiful girl with a great smile and very happy. Rochester believes could be her father.

* Emotional characteristics: is sympathetic and appreciative, always think positively
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Richard Mason - 

* Physical characteristics: is the brother of bertha.intenta stop the wedding between rochester and jane eyre.

* Emotional characteristics: is generously happy. a great person and very sympathetic.


Bessie Lee -  The maid at Gateshead, Bessie is the only figure in Jane’s childhood who regularly treats her kindly, telling her stories and singing her songs. Bessie later marries Robert Leaven, the Reeds’ coachman.

Mr. Lloyd -  Mr. Lloyd is the Reeds’ apothecary, who suggests that Jane be sent away to school. Always kind to Jane, Mr. Lloyd writes a letter to Miss Temple confirming Jane’s story about her childhood and clearing Jane of Mrs. Reed’s charge that she is a liar.

Georgiana Reed -  Georgiana Reed is Jane’s cousin and one of Mrs. Reed’s two daughters. The beautiful Georgiana treats Jane cruelly when they are children, but later in their lives she befriends her cousin and confides in her. Georgiana attempts to elope with a man named Lord Edwin Vere, but her sister, Eliza, alerts Mrs. Reed of the arrangement and sabotages the plan. After Mrs. Reed dies, Georgiana marries a wealthy man.

Eliza Reed -  Eliza Reed is Jane’s cousin and one of Mrs. Reed’s two daughters (along with her sister, Georgiana). Not as beautiful as her sister, Eliza devotes herself somewhat self-righteously to the church and eventually goes to a convent in France where she becomes the Mother Superior.

John Reed -  John Reed is Jane’s cousin, Mrs. Reed’s son, and brother to Eliza and Georgiana. John treats Jane with appalling cruelty during their childhood and later falls into a life of drinking and gambling. John commits suicide midway through the novel when his mother ceases to pay his debts for him.

Mr. Brocklehurst -  The cruel, hypocritical master of the Lowood School, Mr. Brocklehurst preaches a doctrine of privation, while stealing from the school to support his luxurious lifestyle. After a typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, Brocklehurst’s shifty and dishonest practices are brought to light and he is publicly discredited.

Maria Temple -  Maria Temple is a kind teacher at Lowood, who treats Jane and Helen with respect and compassion. Along with Bessie Lee, she serves as one of Jane’s first positive female role models. Miss Temple helps clear Jane of Mrs. Reed’s accusations against her.

Miss Scatcherd -  Jane’s sour and vicious teacher at Lowood, Miss Scatcherd behaves with particular cruelty toward Helen.

Alice Fairfax -  Alice Fairfax is the housekeeper at Thornfield Hall. She is the first to tell Jane that the mysterious laughter often heard echoing through the halls is, in fact, the laughter of Grace Poole—a lie that Rochester himself often repeats.

Celine Varens -  Celine Varens is a French opera dancer with whom Rochester once had an affair. Although Rochester does not believe Celine’s claims that he fathered her daughter Adèle, he nonetheless brought the girl to England when Celine abandoned her. Rochester had broken off his relationship with Celine after learning that Celine was unfaithful to him and interested only in his money.

Sophie -  Sophie is Adèle’s French nurse at Thornfield.
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Mr. Briggs -  John Eyre’s attorney, Mr. Briggs helps Richard Mason prevent Jane’s wedding to Rochester when he learns of the existence of Bertha Mason, Rochester’s wife. After John Eyre’s death, Briggs searches for Jane in order to give her her inheritance.

Blanche Ingram -  Blanche Ingram is a beautiful socialite who despises Jane and hopes to marry Rochester for his money.

Diana Rivers -  Diana Rivers is Jane’s cousin, and the sister of St. John and Mary. Diana is a kind and intelligent person, and she urges Jane not to go to India with St. John. She serves as a model for Jane of an intellectually gifted and independent woman.

Mary Rivers -  Mary Rivers is Jane’s cousin, the sister of St. John and Diana. Mary is a kind and intelligent young woman who is forced to work as a governess after her father loses his fortune. Like her sister, she serves as a model for Jane of an independent woman who is also able to maintain close relationships with others and a sense of meaning in her life.

Rosamond Oliver -  Rosamond is the beautiful daughter of Mr. Oliver, Morton’s wealthiest inhabitant. Rosamond gives money to the school in Morton where Jane works. Although she is in love with St. John, she becomes engaged to the wealthy Mr. Granby.

John Eyre -  John Eyre is Jane’s uncle, who leaves her his vast fortune of 20,000 pounds.

Uncle Reed -  Uncle Reed is Mrs. Reed’s late husband. In her childhood, Jane believes that she feels the presence of his ghost. Because he was always fond of Jane and her mother (his sister), Uncle Reed made his wife promise that she would raise Jane as her own child. It is a promise that Mrs. Reed does not keep.


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