Jane Eyre

Synopsis

"gentle reader, may you never feel what i then felt!" throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere lowood charity school - jane eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of jane's new life at thornfield hall is broken up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, mr rochester.