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345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/51.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_24_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 24 | chapter 24 | null | {"name": "Chapter 24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter24", "summary": "Van Helsing reports that he investigated what ships were scheduled to be sailing to Transylvania. He found only one, the Czarina Catherine. Van Helsing and Arthur spoke with the... |
This to Jonathan Harker.
You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our
search--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we
seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day.
This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him
here. Let me t... | 6,020 | Chapter 24 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter24 | Van Helsing reports that he investigated what ships were scheduled to be sailing to Transylvania. He found only one, the Czarina Catherine. Van Helsing and Arthur spoke with the dockmaster, who told them that a "tall man, thin and pale," garbed all in black except for a straw hat, hurriedly booked passage on the ship. ... | Not unlike the previous one, this chapter continues to develop the possibility that Van Helsing is a foil to Dracula. The professor himself catalogues the ways in which Dracula is exceptional: "Look at his persistence and endurance... He find in patience just how is his strength, and what are his powers. He study new t... | 409 | 707 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/52.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_25_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 25 | chapter 25 | null | {"name": "Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter25", "summary": "Van Helsing continues his \"interviews\" with Mina at sunrise and sunset, \"to her times of peculiar freedom; when her old self can be manifest without any controlling force sub... |
_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he
says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.
I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.
Harker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to
understand that sunrise and sunset a... | 6,050 | Chapter 25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter25 | Van Helsing continues his "interviews" with Mina at sunrise and sunset, "to her times of peculiar freedom; when her old self can be manifest without any controlling force subduing or restraining her, or inciting her to action." During one such interview, after signs of a violent internal struggle, Mina implores the men... | This chapter contributes a new level of understanding to Van Helsing's previous assessments of Count Dracula. True, the vampire is intelligent and accomplished; as all "child-brains" do, he has been advancing his knowledge and skill through instrumental experimentation. Nevertheless--and ironically, given his incredibl... | 451 | 959 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/53.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_26_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 26 | chapter 26 | null | {"name": "Chapter 26", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter26", "summary": "Van Helsing experiences greater difficulty hypnotizing Mina, because the group, making its way toward Galatz, is drawing nearer to Count Dracula all the time. They do, however, ... |
_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last
night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us
had done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,
and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and
for our work when we get to Galatz... | 7,004 | Chapter 26 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter26 | Van Helsing experiences greater difficulty hypnotizing Mina, because the group, making its way toward Galatz, is drawing nearer to Count Dracula all the time. They do, however, ascertain that "He is close to land: he has left his earth-chest. But he has yet to get on shore. " Time is still, for now, on their side, alt... | With this chapter, Stoker begins to bring his narrative to a relatively rapid conclusion. As Leonard Wolf points out, the author employs some plot devices that do not make much rational sense--most notably, Van Helsing's decision to drive he and Mina himself to Castle Dracula--but that do move events forward more quick... | 418 | 508 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/54.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_27_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 27 | chapter 27 | null | {"name": "Chapter 27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter27", "summary": "Van Helsing and Mina approach Castle Dracula, meeting with many superstitious members of the local populace along the way. As they draw ever closer to the vampire's home, Van He... |
_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The
horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go
willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many
changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to
think that the journey will be an easy on... | 7,123 | Chapter 27 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter27 | Van Helsing and Mina approach Castle Dracula, meeting with many superstitious members of the local populace along the way. As they draw ever closer to the vampire's home, Van Helsing discovers that he is unable to hypnotize Mina any longer. Disturbingly, she knows the way through the Borgo Pass to the castle--ostensibl... | "The stake we play for is life and death," Van Helsing writes in his memorandum , and certainly his words function as an apt summation of this final chapter of Dracula. Stoker brings his major themes and motifs to a fitting climax in these pages. For instance, we visit again the liminal existence of the vampire and tho... | 360 | 923 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/02.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 1 | volume 1, chapter 1 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-1-5", "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, ... |
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 (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold
winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so
penetrating, that further out-door exercis... | 1,805 | volume 1, Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-1-5 | 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. Reed was particularly resentful of her husband's favoritism toward Jane an... | From the very beginning of the book, Bronte uses careful novelistic craftsmanship to position the reader on Jane's side. Not only does the narration occur in Jane's voice, a fact which automatically makes her a more sympathetic character, but Bronte incorporates all of the tragic facts of Jane's childhood in the first ... | 215 | 245 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/03.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 2 | volume 1, chapter 2 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-1-5", "summary": "Jane resists physically and verbally as the servants Bessie and Miss Abbot lead her to the red-room, named for the color of its drapery and furn... |
I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which
greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed
to entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather
_out_ of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's
mutiny had already rendered ... | 2,571 | volume 1, Chapter 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-1-5 | Jane resists physically and verbally as the servants Bessie and Miss Abbot lead her to the red-room, named for the color of its drapery and furniture. The room also contains a miniature portrait of Mr. Reed, who has been dead nine years; his actual body lies in a vault under the Gateshead church. Before they lock her u... | The red-room has clear associations with death but is also a symbol of imprisonment. This is only the first time that Jane will be imprisoned in the novel, though her later imprisonments will generally be more metaphorical, particularly in relation to class, gender, and religion. In this case, John is the root cause of... | 185 | 214 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/04.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_3.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 3 | volume 1, chapter 3 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-1-5", "summary": "Jane wakes up, dimly aware of voices and of someone supporting her. She soon realizes that she is in her bed and sees Bessie and Mr. Lloyd, the ... |
The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a
frightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed
with thick black bars. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow
sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation,
uncertainty, and an all-predominating sen... | 3,052 | volume 1, Chapter 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-1-5 | Jane wakes up, dimly aware of voices and of someone supporting her. She soon realizes that she is in her bed and sees Bessie and Mr. Lloyd, the apothecary. He gives instructions for Jane's care and departs, and Bessie, more concerned than before over Jane's health, sleeps in the neighboring room in case Jane needs anyt... | The conflicts of social class that were suggested in Chapter 1 become even more prominent in this chapter. Jane is trapped in the odd situation of being poor within a rich family. Moreover, her mother was once a member of a wealthy family, but her choice of husband resulted in her financial ruin and indirectly led to b... | 352 | 199 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/05.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_4.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 4 | volume 1, chapter 4 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-1-5", "summary": "Time passes, and Jane regains her strength, but the subject of her unhappiness is never broached, and the Reed family treats her even more poorl... |
From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference
between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a
motive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,--I desired and
waited it in silence. It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had
regained my normal state of health,... | 5,402 | volume 1, Chapter 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-1-5 | Time passes, and Jane regains her strength, but the subject of her unhappiness is never broached, and the Reed family treats her even more poorly than before. One day, Jane challenges Mrs. Reed, questioning what her late husband would think of her behavior. Mrs. Reed punishes Jane for the impertinent question, boxing h... | Religion makes its first formal appearance in the novel in the form of Mr. Brocklehurst. Already, we can see the religious hypocrisies that Bronte exposes; Mr. Brocklehurst believes the deceitful Mrs. Reed's accusations about Jane and relishes the seemingly heartless reformations that take place at school. He also disp... | 237 | 315 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/06.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_5.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 5 | volume 1, chapter 5 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-1-5", "summary": "Four days after meeting Mr. Brocklehurst, Jane leaves Gateshead by the 6am coach for Lowood School. When she arrives at the school, she is taken... |
Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January,
when Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and
nearly dressed. I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had
washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just
setting, whose rays streamed throu... | 4,646 | volume 1, Chapter 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-1-5 | Four days after meeting Mr. Brocklehurst, Jane leaves Gateshead by the 6am coach for Lowood School. When she arrives at the school, she is taken into a dull, grey room for supper and then put to bed in a room filled with other girls. The next day, Jane is introduced to some of the school's daily routines, which consist... | Immediately we see that Lowood's religious education does not necessarily mean that the orphans are treated well. Their food is often inedible and served in small portions, their lodgings are cramped, and some of the teachers are extremely cruel. Although Jane is adjusting to the change in surroundings, she is still ta... | 150 | 197 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/07.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 6 | volume 1, chapter 6 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-6-10", "summary": "On her second day, Jane learns that life at Lowood School is difficult. The meals are hardly large enough to quell Jane's hunger pangs, and the... |
The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight;
but this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of
washing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place
in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind,
whistling through the crevices of our bed... | 2,702 | volume 1, Chapter 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-6-10 | On her second day, Jane learns that life at Lowood School is difficult. The meals are hardly large enough to quell Jane's hunger pangs, and the students are forced to sit through unending sermons. Jane becomes more friendly with Helen and observes as Miss Scatcherd continually berates and even whips Helen, who never ma... | Helen presents her Christian philosophy of forgiveness and endurance: one must bear the sins of others, turn the other cheek, and love thy enemy. Jane, of course, is at odds with this idea, believing that standing up for herself often means fighting back. We have already witnessed several situations in which Jane avail... | 185 | 116 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/08.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 7 | volume 1, chapter 7 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-6-10", "summary": "Jane passes a difficult first quarter at Lowood, with both the snowy weather and strict environment contributing to her misery. After a long ab... |
My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either;
it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself
to new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear of failure in these points
harassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these
were no trifles.
During January... | 3,337 | volume 1, Chapter 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-6-10 | Jane passes a difficult first quarter at Lowood, with both the snowy weather and strict environment contributing to her misery. After a long absence from the school, Mr. Brocklehurst visits Miss Temple's classroom and instructs her not to indulge the girls in the slightest way; their privations will remind them of the ... | Jane attempts to test Helen's philosophy of Christian forgiveness when Mr. Brocklehurst punishes her. For the first time in her life, she does not fight back when she is mistreatment and accepts her humiliating punishment of standing on the stool. Yet, Jane inwardly seethes at the injustice and thinks, "I was no Helen ... | 168 | 185 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/09.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_3.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 8 | volume 1, chapter 8 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-6-10", "summary": "When school is dismissed, Jane falls to the floor, filled with self-pity and shame that all of the students despise her because of Mr. Brockleh... |
Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and
all were gone into the refectory to tea. I now ventured to descend: it
was deep dusk; I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor. The
spell by which I had been so far supported began to dissolve; reaction
took place, and soon, so overwhe... | 2,778 | volume 1, Chapter 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-6-10 | When school is dismissed, Jane falls to the floor, filled with self-pity and shame that all of the students despise her because of Mr. Brocklehurst's false accusations. Helen assures her that everyone actually sympathize with her maltreatment. Jane tells Helen of her aching need to have love from others to survive, but... | In this chapter, Jane reveals her constant need for love and affirmation from others. No doubt a result of her lonely and loveless time at Gateshead, Jane believes that love is the only thing that can make her happy. Helen counters by describing her belief that spirituality is enough; love in the earthly realm is nothi... | 265 | 208 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/10.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_4.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 9 | volume 1, chapter 9 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-6-10", "summary": "As spring arrives, Lowood becomes a more pleasant place. However, the warmer temperatures and dampness of the neighboring forest are ideal for ... |
But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring
drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased;
its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated. My wretched feet,
flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal
and subside under the gentl... | 3,026 | volume 1, Chapter 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-6-10 | As spring arrives, Lowood becomes a more pleasant place. However, the warmer temperatures and dampness of the neighboring forest are ideal for breeding disease, and more than half the girls at the school fall ill with typhus. The disease is particularly bad because of the neglectful care that the students receive at th... | Helen maintains her Christian beliefs to the moment of her death, and she fulfills her representation as a Christ figure for Jane, dying so that Jane can learn more of what it means to be a Christian. Although Jane's devotion to Helen is moving, she continues to question Helen's unshakable faith; she wonders, though do... | 176 | 92 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/11.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_5.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 10 | volume 1, chapter 10 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-6-10", "summary": "The epidemic of typhus fever incites an investigation into Lowood's unhealthy conditions and Mr. Brocklehurst's management of the school, and ... |
Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant
existence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many
chapters. But this is not to be a regular autobiography. I am only
bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some
degree of interest; therefore I now pass a... | 4,062 | volume 1, Chapter 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-6-10 | The epidemic of typhus fever incites an investigation into Lowood's unhealthy conditions and Mr. Brocklehurst's management of the school, and a new group of overseers takes control of the school. With Mr. Brocklehurst's dishonor, the quality of the school improves immensely, and Jane and the other students are able to ... | This brief transitional chapter spans eight years of Jane's life, during which she matures from an angry girl bent on self-survival into a self-reliant young woman seeking to serve others. Bronte incorporates appropriate endings for some of the more significant characters at Lowood School: Mr. Brocklehurst is removed f... | 233 | 160 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/12.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_2_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 11 | volume 1, chapter 11 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-11-15", "summary": "As Jane arrives in Millcote, she is overcome with anxiety; there is no one at the station to meet her, and she fears that this Mrs. Fairfax w... |
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and
when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a
room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on
the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such
ornaments on the mantelpiece, such print... | 6,037 | volume 1, Chapter 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-11-15 | As Jane arrives in Millcote, she is overcome with anxiety; there is no one at the station to meet her, and she fears that this Mrs. Fairfax will prove to be a second Mrs. Reed. By the time the servant arrives to take her to Thornfield, night has fallen, and Jane can see nothing of the exterior of the house or its groun... | The introductory chapter to Thornfield plants a few narrative seeds. First, there is an obvious correspondence between Jane and Adele, both orphans, although Adele's living conditions are far better. Rochester's background is mysterious, made more so by Adele's belief that he "'has not kept his word'" to her by constan... | 255 | 154 |
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The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to
Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance
with the place and its inmates. Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she
appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education
and average intelligence. My pu... | 3,901 | volume 1, Chapter 12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-11-15 | Life at Thornfield proves to be pleasant, and Jane is pleased with Adele. Although the girl is somewhat spoiled, Jane recognizes that she is an affectionate and able student and hopes that she will be able to separate Adele from some of her French affectation. Still, when Jane walks around the attic of Thornfield, she ... | Jane's desire for experience apart from stereotypical female experience is explained in a lengthy passage: "It is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that ought to confine themselves to making pudding and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. She goes on, and the ... | 241 | 217 |
1,260 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/14.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Jane Eyre/section_2_part_3.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 13 | volume 1, chapter 13 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-11-15", "summary": "With Mr. Rochester home, Thornfield becomes a noisier, busier place, much to Jane's liking. He invites Jane and Adele to have tea with him an... |
Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that
night; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was
to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived,
and waiting to speak with him.
Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in daily
requi... | 3,738 | volume 1, Chapter 13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-11-15 | With Mr. Rochester home, Thornfield becomes a noisier, busier place, much to Jane's liking. He invites Jane and Adele to have tea with him and Mrs. Fairfax. Adele immediately asks if he has a gift for Jane; Jane asserts that the best gift that he can give her is praise of Adele's progress. Mr. Rochester coldly interrog... | The mystery concerning Mr. Rochester deepens, and this constitutes the major dramatic thrust of the novel. Gothic novels usually have a romantic component that revolves around passionate, unrequited love; as a stereotypical Byronic hero with a dark, brooding nature and secretive past, Mr. Rochester is an ideal candidat... | 128 | 144 |
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For several subsequent days I saw little of Mr. Rochester. In the
mornings he seemed much engaged with business, and, in the afternoon,
gentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed
to dine with him. When his sprain was well enough to admit of horse
exercise, he rode out a good deal; pro... | 4,564 | volume 1, Chapter 14 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-11-15 | During the next few days, Jane sees little of Mr. Rochester as he deals with business and acquaintances. His moods shift rapidly, but Jane cannot figure out their source. One night, during one of his warmer moods, Mr. Rochester gives Adele her long-awaited gift and is more genial while talking with Jane. Jane keeps scr... | Regardless of what Mr. Rochester says about his superiority in regards to experience with Jane, it is clear from his lengthy, involved discussion with her that he views her as his intellectual equal. Though she has a fraction of his worldly experience, Jane acquits herself well with the complicated topics Mr. Rochester... | 183 | 183 |
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Mr. Rochester did, on a future occasion, explain it. It was one
afternoon, when he chanced to meet me and Adele in the grounds: and while
she played with Pilot and her shuttlecock, he asked me to walk up and
down a long beech avenue within sight of her.
He then said that she was the daughter of a French opera-dance... | 4,728 | volume 1, Chapter 15 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210421052406/https://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/study-guide/summary-volume-i-chapters-11-15 | One afternoon, while Adele plays elsewhere, Mr. Rochester takes the opportunity to fulfill his promise to Jane and explain his relationship to Adele. He was once passionately devoted to her mother, a French opera-dancer named Celine Varens, and despite her superior beauty, she seemed to return his ardor. He spent a for... | This extended discussion about Celine Varens reveals more of Mr. Rochester's inner character and personality. Significantly, it is this description of Mr. Rochester's flaws that make him seem more attractive to Jane; the jealous anger and desire that he describes mirror Jane's passionate interior and are a welcome cont... | 379 | 321 |
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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 (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold
winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so
penetrating, that further out-door exercis... | 1,805 | Volume 1, Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-1 | Jane Eyre begins with the adult Jane looking back at her life. She jumps into the story at a moment in her childhood when she's ten years old. On this particular day, Jane and her cousins John, Eliza, and Georgiana aren't going to do something: they're not going to take a walk, because it's too wet. Jane is relieved; s... | null | 394 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/03.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 2 | volume 1, chapter 2 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-2", "summary": "The nursemaid, Bessie, and Mrs. Reed's lady's-maid, Miss Abbot, physically drag Jane to the red room; she's fighting them the whole way, wh... |
I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which
greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed
to entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather
_out_ of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's
mutiny had already rendered ... | 2,571 | Volume 1, Chapter 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-2 | The nursemaid, Bessie, and Mrs. Reed's lady's-maid, Miss Abbot, physically drag Jane to the red room; she's fighting them the whole way, which, she tells us, is unusual for her, but she's half-crazed. Jane objects to John Reed being called her "master," and Miss Abbot tells Jane that she is "less than a servant" becaus... | null | 608 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/04.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_2_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 3 | volume 1, chapter 3 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-3", "summary": "Jane wakes up, confused and disoriented. Someone is holding her gently; she's never been held gently before. She starts to realize where sh... |
The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a
frightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed
with thick black bars. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow
sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation,
uncertainty, and an all-predominating sen... | 3,052 | Volume 1, Chapter 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-3 | Jane wakes up, confused and disoriented. Someone is holding her gently; she's never been held gently before. She starts to realize where she is--in her own bed. Bessie and a gentleman are there, looking after her. Jane's glad to see the gentleman, because he's not one of the Reeds. She looks at him closely and realizes... | null | 789 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/05.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_3_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 4 | volume 1, chapter 4 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-4", "summary": "Jane is waiting patiently, convinced that Mrs. Reed will send her to school soon, even though she hasn't said so. Jane seems to be in more ... |
From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference
between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a
motive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,--I desired and
waited it in silence. It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had
regained my normal state of health,... | 5,402 | Volume 1, Chapter 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-4 | Jane is waiting patiently, convinced that Mrs. Reed will send her to school soon, even though she hasn't said so. Jane seems to be in more disgrace than usual: she has a smaller room, eats alone, and none of the Reed children are even speaking to her. John tries to say something nasty to Jane, but she hits him on the n... | null | 1,098 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/06.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_4_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 5 | volume 1, chapter 5 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-5", "summary": "Jane leaves Gateshead, refusing to say anything to Mrs. Reed before she goes. Bessie takes Jane to the porter's lodge, and then Jane takes ... |
Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January,
when Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and
nearly dressed. I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had
washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just
setting, whose rays streamed throu... | 4,646 | Volume 1, Chapter 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-5 | Jane leaves Gateshead, refusing to say anything to Mrs. Reed before she goes. Bessie takes Jane to the porter's lodge, and then Jane takes a coach by herself for fifty miles to get to Lowood. The journey takes a long time, and she's afraid of being kidnapped, which is something that happened a lot in Bessie's stories. ... | null | 515 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/07.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_5_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 6 | volume 1, chapter 6 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-6", "summary": "Everyone gets up before dawn again and it's so cold that the water inside is frozen, so they can't wash. At least the porridge is okay this... |
The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight;
but this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of
washing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place
in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind,
whistling through the crevices of our bed... | 2,702 | Volume 1, Chapter 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-6 | Everyone gets up before dawn again and it's so cold that the water inside is frozen, so they can't wash. At least the porridge is okay this morning. Jane starts having to actually do lessons with everyone else, which include sewing. While she's sewing, Jane watches another group of girls doing English history lessons w... | null | 413 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/08.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_6_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 7 | volume 1, chapter 7 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-7", "summary": "Jane continues to settle in at Lowood, if you can call it settling in. Not only does she have to learn all the new school rules and the cou... |
My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either;
it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself
to new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear of failure in these points
harassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these
were no trifles.
During January... | 3,337 | Volume 1, Chapter 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-7 | Jane continues to settle in at Lowood, if you can call it settling in. Not only does she have to learn all the new school rules and the course material, she also has to cope with the fact that nobody in the school ever gets enough to eat and they're always cold because their clothes are thin and old. There's an especia... | null | 680 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/09.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_7_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 8 | volume 1, chapter 8 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-8", "summary": "The school day finally ends, the pupils go out to have their early-evening meal , and Jane lets herself fall off the stool she's been stand... |
Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and
all were gone into the refectory to tea. I now ventured to descend: it
was deep dusk; I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor. The
spell by which I had been so far supported began to dissolve; reaction
took place, and soon, so overwhe... | 2,778 | Volume 1, Chapter 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-8 | The school day finally ends, the pupils go out to have their early-evening meal , and Jane lets herself fall off the stool she's been standing on, curl up on the ground, and cry. She thinks all her hopes of being a successful student at Lowood, of having any friends, or having any of the teachers on her side are comple... | null | 507 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/10.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_8_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 9 | volume 1, chapter 9 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-9", "summary": "Things get a little bit better at Lowood when winter dissolves into spring; not only is it warmer and more comfortable for the girls, but J... |
But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring
drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased;
its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated. My wretched feet,
flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal
and subside under the gentl... | 3,026 | Volume 1, Chapter 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-9 | Things get a little bit better at Lowood when winter dissolves into spring; not only is it warmer and more comfortable for the girls, but Jane also discovers how beautiful the landscape around the school really is, now that it isn't covered with snow and ice anymore. She even gets to wander around in the woods alone. W... | null | 661 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/11.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_9_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 10 | volume 1, chapter 10 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-10", "summary": "The older Jane narrating the novel breaks in, explaining that she's going to skip eight years ahead in the story. First, she fills us in ... |
Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant
existence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many
chapters. But this is not to be a regular autobiography. I am only
bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some
degree of interest; therefore I now pass a... | 4,062 | Volume 1, Chapter 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-10 | The older Jane narrating the novel breaks in, explaining that she's going to skip eight years ahead in the story. First, she fills us in on a few details of what's happened at Lowood in the meantime: Many girls died of typhus at the school, and the outbreak put the school in the public eye, so Mr. Brocklehurst's cruelt... | null | 699 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/12.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_10_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 11 | volume 1, chapter 11 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-11", "summary": "Jane stages the beginning of the next chapter almost like a play, describing the scene as she sits by the fire at an inn, waiting nervous... |
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and
when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a
room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on
the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such
ornaments on the mantelpiece, such print... | 6,037 | Volume 1, Chapter 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-11 | Jane stages the beginning of the next chapter almost like a play, describing the scene as she sits by the fire at an inn, waiting nervously to get to Thornfield and meet this mysterious Mrs. Fairfax and her daughter. Notice that Jane addresses the reader directly here, something that happens only a few times in the nov... | null | 962 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/13.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_11_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 12 | volume 1, chapter 12 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-12", "summary": "Jane continues to work as Adele's governess; her life with Mrs. Fairfax and her pupil is much more pleasant than anything she's experienc... |
The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to
Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance
with the place and its inmates. Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she
appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education
and average intelligence. My pu... | 3,901 | Volume 1, Chapter 12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-12 | Jane continues to work as Adele's governess; her life with Mrs. Fairfax and her pupil is much more pleasant than anything she's experienced before, but she's still restless for adventure and excitement, or at least some contact with the outside world. Her favorite activity is going up to the roof of Thornfield and look... | null | 608 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/14.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_12_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 13 | volume 1, chapter 13 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-13", "summary": "Jane doesn't see Mr. Rochester again that evening--he's in bed with his sprained ankle. She and Adele continue their lessons in a new ups... |
Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that
night; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was
to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived,
and waiting to speak with him.
Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in daily
requi... | 3,738 | Volume 1, Chapter 13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-13 | Jane doesn't see Mr. Rochester again that evening--he's in bed with his sprained ankle. She and Adele continue their lessons in a new upstairs room instead of the library, where Mr. Rochester is conducting business. Jane's excited about all the new activity in the household, all the people coming and going to see Mr. R... | null | 745 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/15.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_13_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 14 | volume 1, chapter 14 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 14", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-14", "summary": "For a little while, Jane doesn't see Rochester much; he has a lot of business and goes out riding frequently. Sometimes he is haughty or ... |
For several subsequent days I saw little of Mr. Rochester. In the
mornings he seemed much engaged with business, and, in the afternoon,
gentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed
to dine with him. When his sprain was well enough to admit of horse
exercise, he rode out a good deal; pro... | 4,564 | Volume 1, Chapter 14 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-14 | For a little while, Jane doesn't see Rochester much; he has a lot of business and goes out riding frequently. Sometimes he is haughty or cold, but she can tell that he's just moody, and that his attitude doesn't really have anything to do with her. One evening, Rochester sends for Jane and Adele after dinner. A box of ... | null | 1,313 | 1 |
1,260 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/16.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Jane Eyre/section_14_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 15 | volume 1, chapter 15 | null | {"name": "Volume 1, Chapter 15", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-15", "summary": "One day, while Rochester and Jane are walking in the garden outside Thornfield, Rochester explains his relationship to Adele's mother, Ce... |
Mr. Rochester did, on a future occasion, explain it. It was one
afternoon, when he chanced to meet me and Adele in the grounds: and while
she played with Pilot and her shuttlecock, he asked me to walk up and
down a long beech avenue within sight of her.
He then said that she was the daughter of a French opera-dance... | 4,728 | Volume 1, Chapter 15 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210506211142/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/jane-eyre/summary/volume-1-chapter-15 | One day, while Rochester and Jane are walking in the garden outside Thornfield, Rochester explains his relationship to Adele's mother, Celine Varens, more explicitly. It's a pretty exciting story, so sit back as Rochester begins his tale: Celine was a French opera-dancer with whom Rochester fell in love--and he thought... | null | 1,154 | 1 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/02.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 1 | chapter 1 | null | {"name": "Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-1", "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... |
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 (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold
winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so
penetrating, that further out-door exercis... | 1,805 | Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-1 | 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. Jane's aunt is angry with her, purposely excluding her from the rest of the family, so Jane sits alone in a window seat, r... | This opening chapter sets up two of the primary themes in the novel: class conflict and gender difference. As a poor orphan living with relatives, Jane feels alienated from the rest of the Reed family, and they certainly do nothing to make her feel more comfortable. John Reed says to Jane: "You have no business to take... | 131 | 590 |
1,260 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_1_chapters_2_to_3.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapters 2-3 | chapters 2-3 | null | {"name": "Chapters 2-3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-23", "summary": "As she's being dragged to the red-room, Jane resists her jailors, Bessie and Miss Abbott. After the servants have locked her in, Jane begins obser... |
I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which
greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed
to entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather
_out_ of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's
mutiny had already rendered ... | 5,622 | Chapters 2-3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-23 | As she's being dragged to the red-room, Jane resists her jailors, Bessie and Miss Abbott. After the servants have locked her in, Jane begins observing the red-room. It is the biggest and best room of the mansion, yet is rarely used because Uncle Reed died there. Looking into a mirror, Jane compares her image to that of... | Stating that she is resisting her captors like a "rebel slave," Jane continues to use the imagery of oppression begun in the previous chapter. When Miss Abbot admonishes Jane for striking John Reed, Jane's "young master," Jane immediately questions her terminology. Is John really her master; is she his servant? Again, ... | 392 | 1,151 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/05.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_2_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 4 | chapter 4 | null | {"name": "Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-4", "summary": "Following her discussion with Mr. Lloyd, Jane expects that she will soon be sent away to school. But the only change Jane notices in her status followi... |
From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference
between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a
motive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,--I desired and
waited it in silence. It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had
regained my normal state of health,... | 5,402 | Chapter 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-4 | Following her discussion with Mr. Lloyd, Jane expects that she will soon be sent away to school. But the only change Jane notices in her status following her experience in the red-room is that the boundary between Jane and the Reed children is more solid. On January 15, after three months of waiting for a change, Jane ... | Mr. Brocklehurst enters the book in this chapter, ushering in the change that will alter Jane's life. On first seeing this grim man, Jane describes him as "a black pillar! -- such, at least, appeared to me, at first sight, the straight, narrow, sable-clad shape standing erect on the rug; the grim face at the top was li... | 272 | 499 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/06.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_3_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 5 | chapter 5 | null | {"name": "Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-5", "summary": "January 19, the date of Jane's departure from Gateshead has arrived. She rises at five o'clock in the morning, so that she'll be ready for the six o'cl... |
Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January,
when Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and
nearly dressed. I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had
washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just
setting, whose rays streamed throu... | 4,646 | Chapter 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-5 | January 19, the date of Jane's departure from Gateshead has arrived. She rises at five o'clock in the morning, so that she'll be ready for the six o'clock coach. None of the family rises to bid Jane farewell, and she happily journeys far away from the Reeds. The porter's wife is surprised that Mrs. Reed is allowing suc... | Jane is making progress in her journey of self-knowledge, and has now progressed from Gateshead to Lowood. Its name alerts the reader that the school will be a "low" place for Jane, and, thus, it appears on her first day. Modeled after the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge where Charlotte Bronte and her sisters ... | 225 | 529 |
1,260 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_1_chapters_6_to_7.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_4_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapters 6-7 | chapters 6-7 | null | {"name": "Chapters 6-7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-67", "summary": "When the girls wake for breakfast on Jane's second morning at Lowood, they discover that the water in the pitchers is frozen. Before, she had been... |
The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight;
but this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of
washing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place
in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind,
whistling through the crevices of our bed... | 6,038 | Chapters 6-7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-67 | When the girls wake for breakfast on Jane's second morning at Lowood, they discover that the water in the pitchers is frozen. Before, she had been merely a spectator at Lowood, but now Jane will become an actor, participating fully in the events at the school. As Jane sits sewing, she notices once again how unfairly He... | The significant differences between Jane's and Helen's philosophies of life become apparent in this chapter. While Jane is always ready to fight against her enemies, Helen practices a doctrine of patient endurance. Although Helen accepts all punishment without a tear, the "spectacle" of her friend's suffering causes Ja... | 368 | 775 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/09.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_5_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 8 | chapter 8 | null | {"name": "Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-8", "summary": "At five o'clock, school is dismissed for tea. The spell she has been under dissolves and Jane collapses on the floor in grief. She feels all of her suc... |
Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and
all were gone into the refectory to tea. I now ventured to descend: it
was deep dusk; I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor. The
spell by which I had been so far supported began to dissolve; reaction
took place, and soon, so overwhe... | 2,778 | Chapter 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-8 | At five o'clock, school is dismissed for tea. The spell she has been under dissolves and Jane collapses on the floor in grief. She feels all of her successes at Lowood have now been destroyed by Brocklehurst's unfair accusations. Jane wonders how Helen can be friends with a girl that the world has branded a liar. Helen... | While Jane, Miss Temple, and Helen Burns become closer friends in this chapter, the differences in their personalities also become more obvious. Helen, for example, is not afraid of solitude; therefore, she believes that even if all the world hated her, but she approved of herself, she would not be without friends. For... | 245 | 474 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/10.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_6_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 9 | chapter 9 | null | {"name": "Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-9", "summary": "Spring arrives at Lowood, and the privations lessen. With new growth comes hope. Jane finds beauty in the natural world surrounding Lowood, a beauty th... |
But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring
drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased;
its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated. My wretched feet,
flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal
and subside under the gentl... | 3,026 | Chapter 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-9 | Spring arrives at Lowood, and the privations lessen. With new growth comes hope. Jane finds beauty in the natural world surrounding Lowood, a beauty that had been masked by winter's frosts. But within this pleasure, there is also pain. The forest dell that nurtures the school, the "low wood," also brings a pestilence b... | Like the previous few chapters, this one emphasizes the contrast between the spiritual and material worlds through the characters of Helen and Jane. The chapter opens with the brilliance of spring: The world becomes green and fertile, bursting with "wild primrose plants." While Jane and her new friend, Mary Ann Wilson,... | 224 | 472 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/11.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_7_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 10 | chapter 10 | null | {"name": "Chapter 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-10", "summary": "Eight years pass before Jane again picks up her narrative. Following an investigation into the cause of the typhus epidemic at Lowood, Mr. Brocklehur... |
Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant
existence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many
chapters. But this is not to be a regular autobiography. I am only
bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some
degree of interest; therefore I now pass a... | 4,062 | Chapter 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-10 | Eight years pass before Jane again picks up her narrative. Following an investigation into the cause of the typhus epidemic at Lowood, Mr. Brocklehurst is publicly humiliated, and a new building is erected. Brocklehurst remains the treasurer for the school, but other, more enlightened, gentlemen become the school's ins... | Another portion of Jane's journey is about to end, and its demise is signaled by Miss Temple's departure from Lowood. Over time, Miss Temple has become more than a teacher to Jane: she is also mother, governess, and companion. Miss Temple's guidance has tempered Jane's impulsiveness and fire so that her thoughts have b... | 282 | 425 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/12.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_8_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 11 | chapter 11 | null | {"name": "Chapter 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-11", "summary": "Jane sits waiting at the George Inn at Millcote, because no one has arrived from Thornfield to pick her up. Just as Jane is becoming anxious, a serva... |
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and
when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a
room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on
the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such
ornaments on the mantelpiece, such print... | 6,037 | Chapter 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-11 | Jane sits waiting at the George Inn at Millcote, because no one has arrived from Thornfield to pick her up. Just as Jane is becoming anxious, a servant arrives for her. Despite its imposing architecture, Thornfield is inviting. Mrs. Fairfax proves to be a neat, mild-looking elderly lady, who greets Jane kindly. Surpris... | A new stage of Jane's life has begun, and she feels it will be a good one. From the simplicity and peacefulness of Lowood, Jane has entered the stately, upper-class realm of Thornfield. The chapter begins with a direct address from the narrator, who tells readers that each new chapter in a novel is like a new scene in ... | 237 | 428 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/13.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_9_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 12 | chapter 12 | null | {"name": "Chapter 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-12", "summary": "Thornfield meets up to Jane's initial expectations: calm and comfortable. Adele is a lively, spoiled child, but she is also obedient and teachable. J... |
The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to
Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance
with the place and its inmates. Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she
appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education
and average intelligence. My pu... | 3,901 | Chapter 12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-12 | Thornfield meets up to Jane's initial expectations: calm and comfortable. Adele is a lively, spoiled child, but she is also obedient and teachable. Jane still longs for the busy world of the city, for variety, for conversation with her peers. A restlessness exists in Jane's nature that causes her pain. Walking along th... | In this chapter the reader is shown another example of Jane's restlessness. The quiet haven of Thornfield has become stagnant and lonely, and the uniform, still life it offers provides "an existence whose very privilege of security and ease" that Jane is becoming unable to appreciate. Yearning for a life of excitement,... | 242 | 420 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/14.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_10_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 13 | chapter 13 | null | {"name": "Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-13", "summary": "Life at Thornfield changes following Rochester's arrival. Jane and Adele are forced to abandon the library because Rochester needs to use it as a mee... |
Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that
night; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was
to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived,
and waiting to speak with him.
Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in daily
requi... | 3,738 | Chapter 13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-13 | Life at Thornfield changes following Rochester's arrival. Jane and Adele are forced to abandon the library because Rochester needs to use it as a meeting room. Before, silence had ruled; now, the house it filled with new voices. Jane likes the place better now that it has a master. Adele finds it impossible to concentr... | The relationship between Jane and Rochester develops in this chapter. Rochester is a grim and unfriendly man, but Jane enjoys his gruffness, because she wouldn't have known how to respond to grace, elegance, or politeness. Because Rochester is so natural, not acting a part, Jane feels she can also be open and honest du... | 218 | 478 |
1,260 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_1_chapters_14_to_15.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_11_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapters 14-15 | chapters 14-15 | null | {"name": "Chapters 14-15", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1415", "summary": "At first, Jane sees little of Rochester. During their brief encounters, she notices his moodiness, but it doesn't upset her. Finally, one even... |
For several subsequent days I saw little of Mr. Rochester. In the
mornings he seemed much engaged with business, and, in the afternoon,
gentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed
to dine with him. When his sprain was well enough to admit of horse
exercise, he rode out a good deal; pro... | 9,291 | Chapters 14-15 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1415 | At first, Jane sees little of Rochester. During their brief encounters, she notices his moodiness, but it doesn't upset her. Finally, one evening, he summons Adele and Jane, offering Adele her long-awaited present. Jane notices that Rochester is in a friendlier mood than usual, probably due to his dinner wine. Rocheste... | Early critics of the novel, such as Elizabeth Rigby, objected to Rochester's character, finding him "coarse and brutal." In her opinion, the novel as a whole showed an unwholesome "coarseness of language and laxity of tone." The conversation between Jane and Rochester in these chapters was shocking to a Victorian audie... | 358 | 823 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/17.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_12_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 16 | chapter 16 | null | {"name": "Chapter 16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-16", "summary": "On the morning following the fire, Jane dreads seeing Rochester, but his behavior hasn't changed. Watching the servants cleaning Rochester's room, Ja... |
I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed
this sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to
meet his eye. During the early part of the morning, I momentarily
expected his coming; he was not in the frequent habit of entering the
schoolroom, but he did step in for a fe... | 3,497 | Chapter 16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-16 | On the morning following the fire, Jane dreads seeing Rochester, but his behavior hasn't changed. Watching the servants cleaning Rochester's room, Jane is amazed to find Grace Poole sewing new curtain rings. Grace seems calm for a woman who tried to commit murder the previous night. Like the other servants, Grace seems... | Jane's love for Rochester becomes apparent in this chapter. In her jealousy, Jane imagines a past love relationship between Grace and Rochester; perhaps Grace's "originality and strength of character" compensate for her lack of beauty. Jane doesn't think Rochester is overly impressed by women's looks; for example, Jane... | 233 | 471 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/18.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_13_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 17 | chapter 17 | null | {"name": "Chapter 17", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-17", "summary": "Jane is sickeningly disappointed when Rochester hasn't returned in a week, and Mrs. Fairfax suggests that he might go directly to Europe, not returni... |
A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days, and still
he did not come. Mrs. Fairfax said she should not be surprised if he
were to go straight from the Leas to London, and thence to the Continent,
and not show his face again at Thornfield for a year to come; he had not
unfrequently quitted it in a... | 7,548 | Chapter 17 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-17 | Jane is sickeningly disappointed when Rochester hasn't returned in a week, and Mrs. Fairfax suggests that he might go directly to Europe, not returning to Thornfield for a year or more. After two weeks, Rochester sends a letter telling Mrs. Fairfax that he will arrive in three days, along with a party of people. Jane i... | In this chapter, the negative attributes of Blanche's character become apparent, at least in Jane's eyes. While Blanche's beauty lives up to Mrs. Fairfax's description of her, it also contains a "haughtiness," a "fierce and hard eye" that resembles her mother's. According to Jane, Blanche is "the very type of majesty."... | 249 | 497 |
1,260 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_2_chapters_18_to_19.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_14_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapters 18-19 | chapters 18-19 | null | {"name": "Chapters 18-19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1819", "summary": "With guests at Thornfield, life is cheerful. One night, they are preparing for a game of charades. Rochester's group goes first, pantomiming a... |
Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how
different from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and
solitude I had passed beneath its roof! All sad feelings seemed now
driven from the house, all gloomy associations forgotten: there was life
everywhere, movement all day long. You could... | 8,980 | Chapters 18-19 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1819 | With guests at Thornfield, life is cheerful. One night, they are preparing for a game of charades. Rochester's group goes first, pantomiming a marriage ceremony with Rochester and Blanche as the happy couple. They then enact the story of Eliezer and Rebecca, and end with Rochester as a prisoner in chains. Colonel Dent'... | More aspects of Blanche Ingram's bad behavior are presented in this chapter. For example, she pushes Adele away with "spiteful antipathy" and her treatment of Jane isn't much better: She "scorned to touch with the hem of her robes as she passed" and quickly withdrew her eyes from Jane "as from an object too mean to me... | 422 | 522 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/21.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_15_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 20 | chapter 20 | null | {"name": "Chapter 20", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-20", "summary": "Later that evening, Jane lies in bed, gazing at the moonlight coming in her window. Suddenly, she hears a heart-stopping cry for help. Jane hurriedly... |
I had forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did, and also to let
down my window-blind. The consequence was, that when the moon, which was
full and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that
space in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the
unveiled panes, her glorious ga... | 5,374 | Chapter 20 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-20 | Later that evening, Jane lies in bed, gazing at the moonlight coming in her window. Suddenly, she hears a heart-stopping cry for help. Jane hurriedly puts on some clothes, horror shaking her body. All members of the party have gathered in the hallway, wondering if the house is on fire or if robbers have broken in. Roch... | The secret residing on the third floor of Rochester's house is becoming ever more difficult for Rochester to disguise. Rochester's feelings are apparent through his description of his house; while for Jane it is a "splendid mansion," for Rochester it is a "mere dungeon," a Bridewell. While she sees only the glamour of ... | 407 | 364 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/22.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_16_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 21 | chapter 21 | null | {"name": "Chapter 21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-21", "summary": "Jane remembers Bessie Leaven saying that dreams of children are a sign of trouble, either to oneself or one's kin. Jane is worried because she has be... |
Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are
signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not
yet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because
I have had strange ones of my own. Sympathies, I believe, exist (for
instance, between far-distant, lon... | 8,244 | Chapter 21 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-21 | Jane remembers Bessie Leaven saying that dreams of children are a sign of trouble, either to oneself or one's kin. Jane is worried because she has been dreaming of infants for the past seven successive nights, including the night she was roused by Mason's cry. It also happens on the day Jane learns of her cousin John's... | This chapter develops the characters of the Reeds, who haven't changed much in the years since Jane last saw them. The three Reed women are models of three different types of unacceptable female behavior. Eliza's ascetic appearance and crucifix signal her religious rebirth. Extremely rigid, Eliza has every aspect of he... | 358 | 383 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_17_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 22 | chapter 22 | null | {"name": "Chapter 22", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-22", "summary": "Jane remains at Gateshead for a month, helping Georgiana and Eliza prepare for their departures: Georgiana to her uncle in London, and Eliza to a nun... |
Mr. Rochester had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month
elapsed before I quitted Gateshead. I wished to leave immediately after
the funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to
London, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who
had come down to direct h... | 2,728 | Chapter 22 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-22 | Jane remains at Gateshead for a month, helping Georgiana and Eliza prepare for their departures: Georgiana to her uncle in London, and Eliza to a nunnery in Lisle, France. Eliza compliments Jane on her independence and hard work. The older Jane interrupts the narrative, telling Eliza's and Georgiana's futures: Eliza be... | In this chapter, Jane is again described as a magical creature. Indeed, the entire setting has become invested with magic. Walking on the road to Thornfield, Jane notices that the sky seems lit by fire, a spiritual "altar burning behind its screen of marbled vapour." When he sees her coming down the lane, Rochester won... | 234 | 513 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/24.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_18_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 23 | chapter 23 | null | {"name": "Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-23", "summary": "It is a beautiful midsummer's night. As the sun sets, Jane walks around the gardens of Thornfield, enjoying the solemn purple that colors the sky. Sm... |
A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant
as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-
girt land. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South,
like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the
cliffs of Albion. The h... | 3,651 | Chapter 23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-23 | It is a beautiful midsummer's night. As the sun sets, Jane walks around the gardens of Thornfield, enjoying the solemn purple that colors the sky. Smelling Rochester's cigar from a window, Jane moves into the more secluded space of the orchard. But Rochester is now in the garden. Jane tries to escape unseen, but he spe... | Throughout this chapter, nature symbolically mimics Jane's feelings. Blissfully spending time with Rochester, Jane notices that "a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the cliffs of Albion." Everything is in its "dark prime," as the apex of ... | 254 | 475 |
1,260 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_2_chapters_24_to_25.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_19_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapters 24-25 | chapters 24-25 | null | {"name": "Chapters 24-25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2425", "summary": "The next morning, Jane wakes, wondering if the previous night was just a dream. She feels transformed; even her face looks different, no longe... |
As I rose and dressed, I thought over what had happened, and wondered if
it were a dream. I could not be certain of the reality till I had seen
Mr. Rochester again, and heard him renew his words of love and promise.
While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it
was no longer plain: there wa... | 11,603 | Chapters 24-25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2425 | The next morning, Jane wakes, wondering if the previous night was just a dream. She feels transformed; even her face looks different, no longer plain. Believing Jane has taken an immoral turn, Mrs. Fairfax is cool and quiet at breakfast, but Jane feels she must let Rochester give explanations. When she walks up to the ... | Now that Jane has accepted Rochester's proposal, he seems intent on transforming her into the ideal object of affection. Already that morning, he has sent to London to have the family jewels sent to Thornfield for Jane, and he wants her to wear satin, lace, and priceless veils. Jane worries she'll lose herself if "tric... | 608 | 900 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/27.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_20_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 26 | chapter 26 | null | {"name": "Chapter 26", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-26", "summary": "At seven o'clock on Jane's wedding day, Sophie arrives to help her dress. Jane wears the plain blond veil she has made herself, rather than the fancy... |
Sophie came at seven to dress me: she was very long indeed in
accomplishing her task; so long that Mr. Rochester, grown, I suppose,
impatient of my delay, sent up to ask why I did not come. She was just
fastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a
brooch; I hurried from under her hands a... | 3,979 | Chapter 26 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-26 | At seven o'clock on Jane's wedding day, Sophie arrives to help her dress. Jane wears the plain blond veil she has made herself, rather than the fancy veil that was destroyed by Bertha. In her wedding dress, Jane looks so different from her usual self that she seems a stranger to herself. As they drive to the church, Ro... | Rochester's secret has been revealed. In the previous chapter, Bertha was merely an apparition; in this one, she becomes fully flesh and blood. An insane, Creole woman, Bertha represents British fears of both foreigners and women. Part human, part beast, Bertha is Jane's double, representing all of her rage and anger o... | 328 | 420 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/28.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_21_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 27 | chapter 27 | null | {"name": "Chapter 27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-27", "summary": "Later that afternoon, Jane awakes, wondering what she should do: Leave Thornfield at once is the answer. At first, she doesn't think she can leave Ro... |
Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing
the western sun gilding the sign of its decline on the wall, I asked,
"What am I to do?"
But the answer my mind gave--"Leave Thornfield at once"--was so prompt,
so dread, that I stopped my ears. I said I could not bear such words
now. "That ... | 10,522 | Chapter 27 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-27 | Later that afternoon, Jane awakes, wondering what she should do: Leave Thornfield at once is the answer. At first, she doesn't think she can leave Rochester, but an inner voice tells her she both can and should. Jane leaves her room, tripping over Rochester, who sits in a chair outside the door. He carries her down to ... | In this chapter, Jane learns more about Rochester's past, particularly his relationship with Bertha. Much of this information hinges on the problem of excessive sexuality. As Rochester constantly reminds Jane, he is not "cool and dispassionate"; instead, he seems to devour her with his "flaming glance." His passionate ... | 379 | 419 |
1,260 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_3_chapters_28_to_29.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_22_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapters 28-29 | chapters 28-29 | null | {"name": "Chapters 28-29", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2829", "summary": "Two days later, the coachman drops Jane off in Whitcross. He couldn't take her any further because she has run out of money. Accidentally, Jan... |
Two days are passed. It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me
down at a place called Whitcross; he could take me no farther for the sum
I had given, and I was not possessed of another shilling in the world.
The coach is a mile off by this time; I am alone. At this moment I
discover that I forgot to take my p... | 10,794 | Chapters 28-29 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2829 | Two days later, the coachman drops Jane off in Whitcross. He couldn't take her any further because she has run out of money. Accidentally, Jane leaves her packet in the coach and is now destitute. Nature is Jane's only relative, the "universal mother" who will lodge her without money, so Jane spends the night sleeping ... | Jane has reached the dark night of her soul. Leaving the carriage that has brought her to Whitcross, Jane has nothing but the clothes she's wearing. Before beginning the final section of her journey of self-discovery, Jane must strip herself of all connections with humanity and rediscover her spiritual self. In some wa... | 542 | 997 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_23_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 30 | chapter 30 | null | {"name": "Chapter 30", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-30", "summary": "After a few days, Jane has recovered her health enough to sit up and walk outdoors. Her conversations with Diana and Mary revive and refresh Jane, be... |
The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them. In
a few days I had so far recovered my health that I could sit up all day,
and walk out sometimes. I could join with Diana and Mary in all their
occupations; converse with them as much as they wished, and aid them when
and where they would allo... | 3,471 | Chapter 30 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-30 | After a few days, Jane has recovered her health enough to sit up and walk outdoors. Her conversations with Diana and Mary revive and refresh Jane, because their values and interests are so perfectly aligned with hers. Diana and Mary are better read than Jane, and Jane eagerly devours all the books they lend her. Drawin... | The "dark and hoary" appearance of Moor House seems to match Jane's psychology at this point of the novel; she has moved from Thornfield's luxury to Marsh End's natural and rugged beauty. Describing the environment around the house, Jane emphasizes its rustic, hardy feel: The fierce mountain winds have caused the trees... | 298 | 485 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_24_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 31 | chapter 31 | null | {"name": "Chapter 31", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-31", "summary": "Jane has moved to her new home: the schoolroom cottage at Morton. Classes begin with twenty students; only three can read and none can write or do ar... |
My home, then, when I at last find a home,--is a cottage; a little room
with whitewashed walls and a sanded floor, containing four painted chairs
and a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes,
and a set of tea-things in delf. Above, a chamber of the same dimensions
as the kitchen, with a deal... | 2,930 | Chapter 31 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-31 | Jane has moved to her new home: the schoolroom cottage at Morton. Classes begin with twenty students; only three can read and none can write or do arithmetic. Some are docile and want to learn, while others are rough and unruly. Rather than feeling proud of her work, Jane feels degraded. She knows these feelings are wr... | Although Jane was quick to point out Hannah's class prejudices in Chapter 29, in this chapter Jane shows a lack of feeling for the peasants who are now her students. Jane chose this position, in part, to avoid becoming a governess/servant in the house of a rich family. Having met her uncultured students, Jane wonders i... | 247 | 541 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_25_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 32 | chapter 32 | null | {"name": "Chapter 32", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-32", "summary": "After working with her students for a while, Jane discovers some intelligence among them. Jane is even surprised by their progress and begins persona... |
I continued the labours of the village-school as actively and faithfully
as I could. It was truly hard work at first. Some time elapsed before,
with all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature.
Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me
hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, ... | 4,323 | Chapter 32 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-32 | After working with her students for a while, Jane discovers some intelligence among them. Jane is even surprised by their progress and begins personally to like some of the girls -- and they like her. Jane teaches them grammar, geography, history, and needlework. Despite her popularity within the community and her grow... | Both Jane and St. John suffer from unrequited love in this chapter. While Jane is pleased with her "useful existence," she isn't fully satisfied with her new, safe life, and her repressed desires manifest at night in strange dreams: "dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy." Filled w... | 293 | 370 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/34.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_26_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 33 | chapter 33 | null | {"name": "Chapter 33", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-33", "summary": "While a snowstorm whirls outside, Jane sits reading Marmion. Suddenly, she hears a noise at the door: it's St. John. After a long delay, he tells Jan... |
When Mr. St. John went, it was beginning to snow; the whirling storm
continued all night. The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding
falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. I
had closed my shutter, laid a mat to the door to prevent the snow from
blowing in under it, trimmed my f... | 4,479 | Chapter 33 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-33 | While a snowstorm whirls outside, Jane sits reading Marmion. Suddenly, she hears a noise at the door: it's St. John. After a long delay, he tells Jane's own story, ending by saying that finding Jane Eyre has become a matter of serious urgency. St. John explains that he discovered her true identity from the paper he tor... | This chapter highlights the differences in personality between Jane and St. John; while he is so cold "no fervour infects" him, Jane is "hot, and fire dissolves ice." For icy St. John, reason is more important than feeling, but for fiery Jane, feeling predominates. Relating her story, St. John expects Jane's primary co... | 256 | 407 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/35.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_27_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 34 | chapter 34 | null | {"name": "Chapter 34", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-34", "summary": "Christmas has arrived and Jane is closing the Morton school. She is happy to discover that she is beloved by the girls and promises to visit the scho... |
It was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general
holiday approached. I now closed Morton school, taking care that the
parting should not be barren on my side. Good fortune opens the hand as
well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely
received, is but to afford a ... | 8,689 | Chapter 34 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-34 | Christmas has arrived and Jane is closing the Morton school. She is happy to discover that she is beloved by the girls and promises to visit the school for an hour each week. St. John asks Jane if she wouldn't like to dedicate her life to working with the poor, but she wants to enjoy herself, as well as cultivating oth... | St. John's absolute, God-sanctioned despotism becomes apparent in this chapter. Just as Brocklehurst was a "black pillar," St. John is "a white stone" and a "cold cumbrous column"; Brocklehurst was evil and St. John is good, but both men are equally stony. Even St. John's kisses are "marble" or "ice" kisses: No warmth ... | 331 | 378 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/36.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_28_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 35 | chapter 35 | null | {"name": "Chapter 35", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-35", "summary": "Rather than leaving for Cambridge the next day, St. John delays his trip for a week. During that time, he subtly punishes Jane for not obeying him. R... |
He did not leave for Cambridge the next day, as he had said he would. He
deferred his departure a whole week, and during that time he made me feel
what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable
man can inflict on one who has offended him. Without one overt act of
hostility, one upbraiding w... | 4,092 | Chapter 35 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-35 | Rather than leaving for Cambridge the next day, St. John delays his trip for a week. During that time, he subtly punishes Jane for not obeying him. Remembering that he once saved her life, Jane tries to reconcile with him, asking him to treat her as a kinswoman, rather than a stranger. She tells him she retains her res... | Notice that the imagery in this chapter continues to develop St. John's inhumanity: he is "no longer flesh, but marble"; his eye is "a cold, bright, blue gem"; and his heart seems made of "stone or metal." For Jane, his coldness is more terrible that Rochester's raging; she asks if her readers know the "terror those co... | 302 | 537 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_29_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 36 | chapter 36 | null | {"name": "Chapter 36", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-36", "summary": "At dawn the next morning, Jane rises. St. John slides a note under Jane's door, reminding her to resist temptation. It is the first of June, yet the ... |
The daylight came. I rose at dawn. I busied myself for an hour or two
with arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the
order wherein I should wish to leave them during a brief absence.
Meantime, I heard St. John quit his room. He stopped at my door: I
feared he would knock--no, but a slip of p... | 3,697 | Chapter 36 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-36 | At dawn the next morning, Jane rises. St. John slides a note under Jane's door, reminding her to resist temptation. It is the first of June, yet the day is chilly and overcast. Jane wanders the house, thinking about the previous night's visitation: Was it a delusion? It seemed to come from her, not from the external wo... | Suspense builds in this chapter, as Jane delays the revelation of Thornfield's tragic end and of Rochester's history. Upon entering the coach at Whitcross, Jane reflects on the major changes in her situation since her arrival there a year earlier. Then she was "desolate, and hopeless, and objectless"; now she has frien... | 263 | 537 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/38.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_30_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 37 | chapter 37 | null | {"name": "Chapter 37", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-37", "summary": "Jane rushes to Ferndean, a building buried deep in the woods. While she watches the building, the door slowly opens, and Rochester reaches out a hand... |
The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity,
moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood. I
had heard of it before. Mr. Rochester often spoke of it, and sometimes
went there. His father had purchased the estate for the sake of the game
covers. He would have let ... | 6,966 | Chapter 37 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-37 | Jane rushes to Ferndean, a building buried deep in the woods. While she watches the building, the door slowly opens, and Rochester reaches out a hand to see if it's raining. She notes that his body hasn't changed, but his face looks "desperate and brooding." After Rochester has returned to the house, Jane knocks on the... | Jane has now reached her final destination: Ferndean. Her description of Ferndean emphasizes its isolation. It is deep in the woods, unsuitable and unhealthy. Recall that earlier in the novel, Rochester chose not to send Bertha there, because he didn't want her to hasten her death. The woods surrounding the building ar... | 294 | 471 |
1,260 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/39.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Jane Eyre/section_31_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 38 | chapter 38 | null | {"name": "Chapter 38-Conclusion", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-38conclusion", "summary": "Rochester and Jane finally marry with a quiet ceremony. Immediately, Jane writes to the Rivers, explaining what she has done. Di... |
Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and
clerk, were alone present. When we got back from church, I went into the
kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John
cleaning the knives, and I said--
"Mary, I have been married to Mr. Rochester this morning." The
h... | 1,720 | Chapter 38-Conclusion | https://web.archive.org/web/20190321135117/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/jane-eyre/summary-and-analysis/chapter-38conclusion | Rochester and Jane finally marry with a quiet ceremony. Immediately, Jane writes to the Rivers, explaining what she has done. Diana and Mary both approve of her marriage, but Jane receives no response from St. John. Not having forgotten Adele, Jane visits her at school. The girl is pale, thin, and unhappy, so Jane move... | The novel has a typically -- for a Victorian story -- happy ending. All of the characters who were good to Jane are rewarded. Diana and Mary Rivers have made loving marriages; Adele, not at fault for her mother's sins, has become Jane's pleasing companion. Notice Jane's final ethnocentric comment in relation to little ... | 165 | 376 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/02.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 1 | volume 1, chapter 1 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section1/", "summary": "The novel opens on a dreary November afternoon at Gateshead, the home of the wealthy Reed family. A young girl named Jane Eyre sits in the drawing room reading Bewick's Hist... |
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 (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold
winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so
penetrating, that further out-door exercis... | 1,805 | volume 1, Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section1/ | The novel opens on a dreary November afternoon at Gateshead, the home of the wealthy Reed family. 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... | In the early chapters, Bronte establishes the young Jane's character through her confrontations with John and Mrs. Reed, in which Jane's good-hearted but strong-willed determination and integrity become apparent. These chapters also establish the novel's mood. Beginning with Jane's experience in the red-room in Chapter... | 123 | 473 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/03.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 2 | volume 1, chapter 2 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section1/", "summary": "Two servants, Miss Abbott and Bessie Lee, escort Jane to the red-room, and Jane resists them with all of her might. Once locked in the room, Jane catches a glimpse of her gh... |
I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which
greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed
to entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather
_out_ of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's
mutiny had already rendered ... | 2,571 | volume 1, Chapter 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section1/ | Two servants, Miss Abbott and Bessie Lee, escort Jane to the red-room, and Jane resists them with all of her might. Once locked in the room, Jane catches a glimpse of her ghastly figure in the mirror, and, shocked by her meager presence, she begins to reflect on the events that have led her to such a state. She remembe... | In the early chapters, Bronte establishes the young Jane's character through her confrontations with John and Mrs. Reed, in which Jane's good-hearted but strong-willed determination and integrity become apparent. These chapters also establish the novel's mood. Beginning with Jane's experience in the red-room in Chapter... | 152 | 473 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/04.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_3.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 3 | volume 1, chapter 3 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section1/", "summary": "When she wakes, Jane finds herself in her own bedroom, in the care of Mr. Lloyd, the family's kind apothecary. Bessie is also present, and she expresses disapproval of her m... |
The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a
frightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed
with thick black bars. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow
sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation,
uncertainty, and an all-predominating sen... | 3,052 | volume 1, Chapter 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section1/ | When she wakes, Jane finds herself in her own bedroom, in the care of Mr. Lloyd, the family's kind apothecary. Bessie is also present, and she expresses disapproval of her mistress's treatment of Jane. Jane remains in bed the following day, and Bessie sings her a song. Mr. Lloyd speaks with Jane about her life at Gates... | In the early chapters, Bronte establishes the young Jane's character through her confrontations with John and Mrs. Reed, in which Jane's good-hearted but strong-willed determination and integrity become apparent. These chapters also establish the novel's mood. Beginning with Jane's experience in the red-room in Chapter... | 166 | 473 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/05.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_4.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 4 | volume 1, chapter 4 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section1/", "summary": "\"I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to visit you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I ... |
From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference
between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a
motive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,--I desired and
waited it in silence. It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had
regained my normal state of health,... | 5,402 | volume 1, Chapter 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section1/ | "I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to visit you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick. About two months have passed, and Jane has been enduring even c... | In the early chapters, Bronte establishes the young Jane's character through her confrontations with John and Mrs. Reed, in which Jane's good-hearted but strong-willed determination and integrity become apparent. These chapters also establish the novel's mood. Beginning with Jane's experience in the red-room in Chapter... | 226 | 473 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/06.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 5 | volume 1, chapter 5 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/", "summary": "Four days after meeting Mr. Brocklehurst, Jane boards the 6 a. m. coach and travels alone to Lowood. When she arrives at the school, the day is dark and rainy, and she is le... |
Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January,
when Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and
nearly dressed. I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had
washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just
setting, whose rays streamed throu... | 4,646 | volume 1, Chapter 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/ | Four days after meeting Mr. Brocklehurst, Jane boards the 6 a. m. coach and travels alone to Lowood. When she arrives at the school, the day is dark and rainy, and she is led through a grim building that will be her new home. The following day, Jane is introduced to her classmates and learns the daily routine, which ke... | This section details Jane's experiences at Lowood, from her first day at the school to her final one some nine years later. Jane's early years at Lowood prove to be a period of considerable tribulation, as she endures harsh conditions, cruel teachers, and the tyranny of Mr. Brocklehurst. Moreover, the harsh conditions ... | 151 | 295 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/07.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 6 | volume 1, chapter 6 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/", "summary": "On Jane's second morning at Lowood, the girls are unable to wash, as the water in their pitchers is frozen. Jane quickly learns that life at the school is harsh. The girls a... |
The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight;
but this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of
washing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place
in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind,
whistling through the crevices of our bed... | 2,702 | volume 1, Chapter 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/ | On Jane's second morning at Lowood, the girls are unable to wash, as the water in their pitchers is frozen. Jane quickly learns that life at the school is harsh. The girls are underfed, overworked, and forced to sit still during seemingly endless sermons. Still, she takes comfort in her new friendship with Helen, who i... | This section details Jane's experiences at Lowood, from her first day at the school to her final one some nine years later. Jane's early years at Lowood prove to be a period of considerable tribulation, as she endures harsh conditions, cruel teachers, and the tyranny of Mr. Brocklehurst. Moreover, the harsh conditions ... | 152 | 295 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/08.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_3.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 7 | volume 1, chapter 7 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/", "summary": "For most of Jane's first month at Lowood, Mr. Brocklehurst spends his time away from the school. When he returns, Jane becomes quite nervous because she remembers his promis... |
My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either;
it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself
to new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear of failure in these points
harassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these
were no trifles.
During January... | 3,337 | volume 1, Chapter 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/ | For most of Jane's first month at Lowood, Mr. Brocklehurst spends his time away from the school. When he returns, Jane becomes quite nervous because she remembers his promise to her aunt, Mrs. Reed, to warn the school about Jane's supposed habit of lying. When Jane inadvertently drops her slate in Mr. Brocklehurst's pr... | This section details Jane's experiences at Lowood, from her first day at the school to her final one some nine years later. Jane's early years at Lowood prove to be a period of considerable tribulation, as she endures harsh conditions, cruel teachers, and the tyranny of Mr. Brocklehurst. Moreover, the harsh conditions ... | 120 | 295 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/09.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_4.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 8 | volume 1, chapter 8 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/", "summary": "Finally, at five o'clock, the students disperse, and Jane collapses to the floor. Deeply ashamed, she is certain that her reputation at Lowood has been ruined, but Helen ass... |
Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and
all were gone into the refectory to tea. I now ventured to descend: it
was deep dusk; I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor. The
spell by which I had been so far supported began to dissolve; reaction
took place, and soon, so overwhe... | 2,778 | volume 1, Chapter 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/ | Finally, at five o'clock, the students disperse, and Jane collapses to the floor. Deeply ashamed, she is certain that her reputation at Lowood has been ruined, but Helen assures her that most of the girls felt more pity for Jane than revulsion at her alleged deceitfulness. Jane tells Miss Temple that she is not a liar,... | This section details Jane's experiences at Lowood, from her first day at the school to her final one some nine years later. Jane's early years at Lowood prove to be a period of considerable tribulation, as she endures harsh conditions, cruel teachers, and the tyranny of Mr. Brocklehurst. Moreover, the harsh conditions ... | 135 | 295 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/10.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_5.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 9 | volume 1, chapter 9 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/", "summary": "In the spring, life at Lowood briefly seems happier, but the damp forest dell in which the school resides is a breeding-ground for typhus, and in the warm temperatures more ... |
But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring
drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased;
its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated. My wretched feet,
flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal
and subside under the gentl... | 3,026 | volume 1, Chapter 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/ | In the spring, life at Lowood briefly seems happier, but the damp forest dell in which the school resides is a breeding-ground for typhus, and in the warm temperatures more than half the girls fall ill with the disease. Jane remains healthy and spends her time playing outdoors with a new friend, Mary Ann Wilson. Helen ... | This section details Jane's experiences at Lowood, from her first day at the school to her final one some nine years later. Jane's early years at Lowood prove to be a period of considerable tribulation, as she endures harsh conditions, cruel teachers, and the tyranny of Mr. Brocklehurst. Moreover, the harsh conditions ... | 153 | 295 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/11.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_6.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 10 | volume 1, chapter 10 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/", "summary": "After Mr. Brocklehurst's negligent treatment of the girls at Lowood is found to be one of the causes of the typhus epidemic, a new group of overseers is brought in to run t... |
Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant
existence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many
chapters. But this is not to be a regular autobiography. I am only
bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some
degree of interest; therefore I now pass a... | 4,062 | volume 1, Chapter 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section2/ | After Mr. Brocklehurst's negligent treatment of the girls at Lowood is found to be one of the causes of the typhus epidemic, a new group of overseers is brought in to run the school. Conditions improve dramatically for the young girls, and Jane excels in her studies for the next six years. After spending two more years... | This section details Jane's experiences at Lowood, from her first day at the school to her final one some nine years later. Jane's early years at Lowood prove to be a period of considerable tribulation, as she endures harsh conditions, cruel teachers, and the tyranny of Mr. Brocklehurst. Moreover, the harsh conditions ... | 211 | 295 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/17.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_2_part_6.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 16 | volume 2, chapter 16 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section3/", "summary": "The next morning, Jane is shocked to learn that the near tragedy of the night before has caused no scandal. The servants believe Rochester to have fallen asleep with a lit ... |
I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed
this sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to
meet his eye. During the early part of the morning, I momentarily
expected his coming; he was not in the frequent habit of entering the
schoolroom, but he did step in for a fe... | 3,497 | volume 2, Chapter 16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section3/ | The next morning, Jane is shocked to learn that the near tragedy of the night before has caused no scandal. The servants believe Rochester to have fallen asleep with a lit candle by his bed, and even Grace Poole shows no sign of guilt or remorse. Jane cannot imagine why an attempted murderer is allowed to continue work... | This section marks the third phase of Jane's life, in which she begins her career as a governess and travels to Thornfield, where the principal incidents of her story take place. By linking Jane's stages of development to the various institutions or geographic locations with which she is involved , the book positions i... | 146 | 475 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/18.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_3_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 17 | volume 2, chapter 17 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 17", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section4/", "summary": "Rochester has been gone for a week, and Jane is dismayed to learn that he may choose to depart for continental Europe without returning to Thornfield--according to Mrs. Fai... |
A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days, and still
he did not come. Mrs. Fairfax said she should not be surprised if he
were to go straight from the Leas to London, and thence to the Continent,
and not show his face again at Thornfield for a year to come; he had not
unfrequently quitted it in a... | 7,548 | volume 2, Chapter 17 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section4/ | Rochester has been gone for a week, and Jane is dismayed to learn that he may choose to depart for continental Europe without returning to Thornfield--according to Mrs. Fairfax, he could be gone for more than a year. A week later, however, Mrs. Fairfax receives word that Rochester will arrive in three days with a large... | Jane's situation in Chapter 17 manifests the uncomfortable position of governesses. Jane, forced to sit in the drawing room during Rochester's party, must endure Blanche Ingram's comments to her mother about the nature of governesses--"half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi." By this stage of ... | 228 | 550 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/19.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_3_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 18 | volume 2, chapter 18 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 18", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section4/", "summary": "The guests stay at Thornfield for several days. Rochester and Blanche compete as a team at charades. From watching their interaction, Jane believes that they will be marrie... |
Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how
different from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and
solitude I had passed beneath its roof! All sad feelings seemed now
driven from the house, all gloomy associations forgotten: there was life
everywhere, movement all day long. You could... | 5,458 | volume 2, Chapter 18 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section4/ | The guests stay at Thornfield for several days. Rochester and Blanche compete as a team at charades. From watching their interaction, Jane believes that they will be married soon though they do not seem to love one another. Blanche would be marrying Rochester for his wealth, and he for her beauty and her social positio... | Jane's situation in Chapter 17 manifests the uncomfortable position of governesses. Jane, forced to sit in the drawing room during Rochester's party, must endure Blanche Ingram's comments to her mother about the nature of governesses--"half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi." By this stage of ... | 129 | 550 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/20.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_3_part_3.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 19 | volume 2, chapter 19 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section4/", "summary": "Jane goes in to the library to have her fortune read, and after overcoming her skepticism, she finds herself entranced by the old woman's speech. The gypsy woman seems to k... |
The library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sibyl--if
Sibyl she were--was seated snugly enough in an easy-chair at the chimney-
corner. She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad-
brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin.
An extinguished candle stood ... | 3,523 | volume 2, Chapter 19 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section4/ | Jane goes in to the library to have her fortune read, and after overcoming her skepticism, she finds herself entranced by the old woman's speech. The gypsy woman seems to know a great deal about Jane and tells her that she is very close to happiness. She also says that she told Blanche Ingram that Rochester was not as ... | Jane's situation in Chapter 17 manifests the uncomfortable position of governesses. Jane, forced to sit in the drawing room during Rochester's party, must endure Blanche Ingram's comments to her mother about the nature of governesses--"half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi." By this stage of ... | 117 | 550 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/21.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_3_part_4.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 20 | volume 2, chapter 20 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 20", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section4/", "summary": "The same night, Jane is startled by a sudden cry for help. She hurries into the hallway, where Rochester assures everyone that a servant has merely had a nightmare. After e... |
I had forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did, and also to let
down my window-blind. The consequence was, that when the moon, which was
full and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that
space in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the
unveiled panes, her glorious ga... | 5,374 | volume 2, Chapter 20 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section4/ | The same night, Jane is startled by a sudden cry for help. She hurries into the hallway, where Rochester assures everyone that a servant has merely had a nightmare. After everyone returns to bed, Rochester knocks on Jane's door. He tells her that he can use her help and asks whether she is afraid of blood. He leads her... | Jane's situation in Chapter 17 manifests the uncomfortable position of governesses. Jane, forced to sit in the drawing room during Rochester's party, must endure Blanche Ingram's comments to her mother about the nature of governesses--"half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi." By this stage of ... | 288 | 550 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/22.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_3_part_5.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 21 | volume 2, chapter 21 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section4/", "summary": "Jane has heard that it is a bad omen to dream of children, and now she has dreams on seven consecutive nights involving babies. She learns that her cousin John Reed has com... |
Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are
signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not
yet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because
I have had strange ones of my own. Sympathies, I believe, exist (for
instance, between far-distant, lon... | 8,244 | volume 2, Chapter 21 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section4/ | Jane has heard that it is a bad omen to dream of children, and now she has dreams on seven consecutive nights involving babies. She learns that her cousin John Reed has committed suicide, and that her aunt, Mrs. Reed, has suffered a stroke and is nearing death. Jane goes to Gateshead, where she is reunited with Bessie.... | Jane's situation in Chapter 17 manifests the uncomfortable position of governesses. Jane, forced to sit in the drawing room during Rochester's party, must endure Blanche Ingram's comments to her mother about the nature of governesses--"half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi." By this stage of ... | 198 | 550 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_4_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 22 | volume 2, chapter 22 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 22", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section5/", "summary": "Jane remains at Gateshead for a month because Georgiana dreads being left alone with Eliza, with whom she does not get along. Eventually, Georgiana goes to London to live w... |
Mr. Rochester had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month
elapsed before I quitted Gateshead. I wished to leave immediately after
the funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to
London, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who
had come down to direct h... | 2,728 | volume 2, Chapter 22 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section5/ | Jane remains at Gateshead for a month because Georgiana dreads being left alone with Eliza, with whom she does not get along. Eventually, Georgiana goes to London to live with her uncle, and Eliza joins a convent in France. Jane tells us that Eliza eventually becomes the Mother Superior of her convent, while Georgiana ... | After her stay at Gateshead, Jane comes to understand fully what Rochester and Thornfield mean to her. Having been acutely reminded of the abjection and cruelty she suffered during her childhood, Jane now realizes how different her life has become, how much she has gained and how much she has grown. In Rochester she ha... | 245 | 479 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/24.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_4_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 23 | volume 2, chapter 23 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section5/", "summary": "After a blissful two weeks, Jane encounters Rochester in the gardens. He invites her to walk with him, and Jane, caught off guard, accepts. Rochester confides that he has f... |
A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant
as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-
girt land. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South,
like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the
cliffs of Albion. The h... | 3,651 | volume 2, Chapter 23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section5/ | After a blissful two weeks, Jane encounters Rochester in the gardens. He invites her to walk with him, and Jane, caught off guard, accepts. Rochester confides that he has finally decided to marry Blanche Ingram and tells Jane that he knows of an available governess position in Ireland that she could take. Jane expresse... | After her stay at Gateshead, Jane comes to understand fully what Rochester and Thornfield mean to her. Having been acutely reminded of the abjection and cruelty she suffered during her childhood, Jane now realizes how different her life has become, how much she has gained and how much she has grown. In Rochester she ha... | 244 | 479 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/25.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_4_part_3.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 24 | volume 2, chapter 24 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section5/", "summary": "Preparations for Jane and Rochester's wedding do not run smoothly. Mrs. Fairfax treats Jane coldly because she doesn't realize that Jane was already engaged to Rochester wh... |
As I rose and dressed, I thought over what had happened, and wondered if
it were a dream. I could not be certain of the reality till I had seen
Mr. Rochester again, and heard him renew his words of love and promise.
While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it
was no longer plain: there wa... | 6,889 | volume 2, Chapter 24 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section5/ | Preparations for Jane and Rochester's wedding do not run smoothly. Mrs. Fairfax treats Jane coldly because she doesn't realize that Jane was already engaged to Rochester when she allowed him to kiss her. But even after she learns the truth, Mrs. Fairfax maintains her disapproval of the marriage. Jane feels unsettled, a... | After her stay at Gateshead, Jane comes to understand fully what Rochester and Thornfield mean to her. Having been acutely reminded of the abjection and cruelty she suffered during her childhood, Jane now realizes how different her life has become, how much she has gained and how much she has grown. In Rochester she ha... | 171 | 479 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/26.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_4_part_4.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 25 | volume 2, chapter 25 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section5/", "summary": "The night before her wedding, Jane waits for Rochester, who has left Thornfield for the evening. She grows restless and takes a walk in the orchard, where she sees the now-... |
The month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being
numbered. There was no putting off the day that advanced--the bridal
day; and all preparations for its arrival were complete. _I_, at least,
had nothing more to do: there were my trunks, packed, locked, corded,
ranged in a row along the wall of my li... | 4,715 | volume 2, Chapter 25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section5/ | The night before her wedding, Jane waits for Rochester, who has left Thornfield for the evening. She grows restless and takes a walk in the orchard, where she sees the now-split chestnut tree. When Rochester arrives, Jane tells him about strange events that have occurred in his absence. The preceding evening, Jane's we... | After her stay at Gateshead, Jane comes to understand fully what Rochester and Thornfield mean to her. Having been acutely reminded of the abjection and cruelty she suffered during her childhood, Jane now realizes how different her life has become, how much she has gained and how much she has grown. In Rochester she ha... | 227 | 479 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/27.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_5_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 26 | chapter 26 | null | {"name": "Chapter 26", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section6/", "summary": "Sophie helps Jane dress for the wedding, and Rochester and Jane walk to the church. Jane notes a pair of strangers reading the headstones in the churchyard cemetery. When Jane and Ro... |
Sophie came at seven to dress me: she was very long indeed in
accomplishing her task; so long that Mr. Rochester, grown, I suppose,
impatient of my delay, sent up to ask why I did not come. She was just
fastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a
brooch; I hurried from under her hands a... | 3,979 | Chapter 26 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section6/ | Sophie helps Jane dress for the wedding, and Rochester and Jane walk to the church. Jane notes a pair of strangers reading the headstones in the churchyard cemetery. When Jane and Rochester enter the church, the two strangers are also present. When the priest asks if anyone objects to the ceremony, one of the strangers... | The incident of the "madwoman in the attic" is probably the most famous in Jane Eyre, and it has given rise to innumerable interpretations and symbolic readings. For example, Bertha Mason could represent the horror of Victorian marriage. Rochester claims to have imprisoned her because she is mad, but it is easy to imag... | 489 | 451 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/28.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_6_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 27 | volume 3, chapter 27 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section7/", "summary": "After falling asleep for a short while, Jane awakes to the realization that she must leave Thornfield. When she steps out of her room, she finds Rochester waiting in a chai... |
Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing
the western sun gilding the sign of its decline on the wall, I asked,
"What am I to do?"
But the answer my mind gave--"Leave Thornfield at once"--was so prompt,
so dread, that I stopped my ears. I said I could not bear such words
now. "That ... | 10,522 | volume 3, Chapter 27 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section7/ | After falling asleep for a short while, Jane awakes to the realization that she must leave Thornfield. When she steps out of her room, she finds Rochester waiting in a chair on the threshold. To Rochester's assurances that he never meant to wound her, and to his pleas of forgiveness, Jane is silent, although she confid... | null | 575 | 1 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/29.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_6_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 28 | volume 3, chapter 28 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 28", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section7/", "summary": "Riding in a coach, Jane quickly exhausts her meager money supply and is forced to sleep outdoors. She spends much of the night in prayer, and the following day she begs for... |
Two days are passed. It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me
down at a place called Whitcross; he could take me no farther for the sum
I had given, and I was not possessed of another shilling in the world.
The coach is a mile off by this time; I am alone. At this moment I
discover that I forgot to take my p... | 6,536 | volume 3, Chapter 28 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section7/ | Riding in a coach, Jane quickly exhausts her meager money supply and is forced to sleep outdoors. She spends much of the night in prayer, and the following day she begs for food or a job in the nearby town. No one helps her, except for one farmer who is willing to give her a slice of bread. After another day, Jane sees... | Feeling. clamoured wildly. Oh, comply. it said. soothe him; save him; love him; tell him you love him and will be his. Who in the world cares for you. or who will be injured by what you do. Jane endures her most difficult trials in this section of the book: she resolves to leave Rochester although it pains her deeply, ... | 235 | 405 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/30.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_7_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 29 | volume 3, chapter 29 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 29", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section8/", "summary": "After she is taken in by the Rivers siblings, Jane spends three days recuperating in bed. On the fourth day, she feels well again and follows the smell of baking bread into... |
The recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very
dim in my mind. I can recall some sensations felt in that interval; but
few thoughts framed, and no actions performed. I knew I was in a small
room and in a narrow bed. To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on
it motionless as a stone; and... | 4,259 | volume 3, Chapter 29 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section8/ | After she is taken in by the Rivers siblings, Jane spends three days recuperating in bed. On the fourth day, she feels well again and follows the smell of baking bread into the kitchen, where she finds Hannah. Jane criticizes Hannah for judging her unfairly when she asked for help, and Hannah apologizes. Hannah tells t... | Marsh End and Morton are the setting of the novel's fourth phase. Here Jane develops a new sense of belonging, and proves herself capable of finding like-minded companions with whom she is not romantically involved. The fact that Diana and Mary Rivers are also governesses puts them on an equal footing with Jane. Althou... | 125 | 245 |
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The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them. In
a few days I had so far recovered my health that I could sit up all day,
and walk out sometimes. I could join with Diana and Mary in all their
occupations; converse with them as much as they wished, and aid them when
and where they would allo... | 3,471 | volume 3, Chapter 30 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section8/ | Jane befriends Diana and Mary, who admire her drawings and give her books to read. St. John, on the other hand, remains distant and cold, although he is never unkind. After a month, Diana and Mary must return to their posts as governesses. St. John has found a position for Jane, running a charity school for girls in th... | Marsh End and Morton are the setting of the novel's fourth phase. Here Jane develops a new sense of belonging, and proves herself capable of finding like-minded companions with whom she is not romantically involved. The fact that Diana and Mary Rivers are also governesses puts them on an equal footing with Jane. Althou... | 138 | 245 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_7_part_3.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 31 | volume 3, chapter 31 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 31", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section8/", "summary": "At Morton, the wealthy heiress Rosamond Oliver provides Jane with a cottage in which to live. Jane begins teaching, but to her own regret, she finds the work degrading and ... |
My home, then, when I at last find a home,--is a cottage; a little room
with whitewashed walls and a sanded floor, containing four painted chairs
and a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes,
and a set of tea-things in delf. Above, a chamber of the same dimensions
as the kitchen, with a deal... | 2,930 | volume 3, Chapter 31 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section8/ | At Morton, the wealthy heiress Rosamond Oliver provides Jane with a cottage in which to live. Jane begins teaching, but to her own regret, she finds the work degrading and disappointing. While on a visit to Jane, St. John reveals that he, too, used to feel that he had made the wrong career choice, until one day he hear... | Marsh End and Morton are the setting of the novel's fourth phase. Here Jane develops a new sense of belonging, and proves herself capable of finding like-minded companions with whom she is not romantically involved. The fact that Diana and Mary Rivers are also governesses puts them on an equal footing with Jane. Althou... | 93 | 245 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_7_part_4.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 32 | volume 3, chapter 32 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 32", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section8/", "summary": "Jane's students become more familiar and endeared to her, and Jane becomes quite popular among them. At night, though, she has troubling nightmares that involve Rochester. ... |
I continued the labours of the village-school as actively and faithfully
as I could. It was truly hard work at first. Some time elapsed before,
with all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature.
Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me
hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, ... | 4,323 | volume 3, Chapter 32 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section8/ | Jane's students become more familiar and endeared to her, and Jane becomes quite popular among them. At night, though, she has troubling nightmares that involve Rochester. Jane continues to pay attention to the relationship between St. John and Rosamond, who often visits the school when she knows St. John will be there... | Marsh End and Morton are the setting of the novel's fourth phase. Here Jane develops a new sense of belonging, and proves herself capable of finding like-minded companions with whom she is not romantically involved. The fact that Diana and Mary Rivers are also governesses puts them on an equal footing with Jane. Althou... | 180 | 245 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/34.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_8_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 33 | volume 3, chapter 33 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 33", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section9/", "summary": "One snowy night, Jane sits reading Marmion when St. John appears at the door. Appearing troubled, he tells Jane the story of an orphan girl who became the governess at Thor... |
When Mr. St. John went, it was beginning to snow; the whirling storm
continued all night. The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding
falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. I
had closed my shutter, laid a mat to the door to prevent the snow from
blowing in under it, trimmed my f... | 4,479 | volume 3, Chapter 33 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section9/ | One snowy night, Jane sits reading Marmion when St. John appears at the door. Appearing troubled, he tells Jane the story of an orphan girl who became the governess at Thornfield Hall, then disappeared after nearly marrying Edward Rochester: this runaway governess's name is Jane Eyre. Until this point, Jane has been ca... | In these chapters, the foreshadowing of John Eyre's importance in the plot is at last fulfilled, and the household that has initially been for Jane merely a community of social equality is now revealed to be a true family. More importantly, St. John emerges as a crucial figure, providing Jane with a powerful and danger... | 279 | 465 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/35.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_8_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 34 | volume 3, chapter 34 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 34", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section9/", "summary": "Jane closes her school for Christmas and spends a happy time with her newfound cousins at Moor House. Diana and Mary are delighted with the improvements Jane has made at th... |
It was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general
holiday approached. I now closed Morton school, taking care that the
parting should not be barren on my side. Good fortune opens the hand as
well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely
received, is but to afford a ... | 8,689 | volume 3, Chapter 34 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section9/ | Jane closes her school for Christmas and spends a happy time with her newfound cousins at Moor House. Diana and Mary are delighted with the improvements Jane has made at the school, but St. John seems colder and more distant than ever. He tells Jane that Rosamond is engaged to a rich man named Mr. Granby. One day, he a... | In these chapters, the foreshadowing of John Eyre's importance in the plot is at last fulfilled, and the household that has initially been for Jane merely a community of social equality is now revealed to be a true family. More importantly, St. John emerges as a crucial figure, providing Jane with a powerful and danger... | 191 | 465 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/36.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_8_part_3.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 35 | volume 3, chapter 35 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 35", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section9/", "summary": "Chapter 35 ut as his wife--at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked--forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardl... |
He did not leave for Cambridge the next day, as he had said he would. He
deferred his departure a whole week, and during that time he made me feel
what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable
man can inflict on one who has offended him. Without one overt act of
hostility, one upbraiding w... | 4,092 | volume 3, Chapter 35 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section9/ | Chapter 35 ut as his wife--at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked--forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital--this would be unendurable. During the following week, St. John cont... | In these chapters, the foreshadowing of John Eyre's importance in the plot is at last fulfilled, and the household that has initially been for Jane merely a community of social equality is now revealed to be a true family. More importantly, St. John emerges as a crucial figure, providing Jane with a powerful and danger... | 177 | 465 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_9_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 36 | volume 3, chapter 36 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 36", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section10/", "summary": "Jane contemplates her supernatural experience of the previous night, wondering whether it was really Rochester's voice that she heard calling to her and whether Rochester ... |
The daylight came. I rose at dawn. I busied myself for an hour or two
with arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the
order wherein I should wish to leave them during a brief absence.
Meantime, I heard St. John quit his room. He stopped at my door: I
feared he would knock--no, but a slip of p... | 3,697 | volume 3, Chapter 36 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section10/ | Jane contemplates her supernatural experience of the previous night, wondering whether it was really Rochester's voice that she heard calling to her and whether Rochester might actually be in trouble. She finds a note from St. John urging her to resist temptation, but nevertheless she boards a coach to Thornfield. She ... | Jane's melodramatic discovery of the ruined Thornfield and her recounting of the story of Bertha Mason's mad and fiery death lead to the novel's last, brief stage at Ferndean, during which Jane and Rochester are able to marry at last. It is possible to question Jane Eyre's proto-feminism on the grounds that Jane only b... | 190 | 489 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/38.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_9_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 37 | volume 3, chapter 37 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 37", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section10/", "summary": "Jane goes to Ferndean. From a distance, she sees Rochester reach a hand out of the door, testing for rain. His body looks the same, but his face is desperate and disconsol... |
The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity,
moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood. I
had heard of it before. Mr. Rochester often spoke of it, and sometimes
went there. His father had purchased the estate for the sake of the game
covers. He would have let ... | 6,966 | volume 3, Chapter 37 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section10/ | Jane goes to Ferndean. From a distance, she sees Rochester reach a hand out of the door, testing for rain. His body looks the same, but his face is desperate and disconsolate. Rochester returns inside, and Jane approaches the house. She knocks, and Mary answers the door. Inside, Jane carries a tray to Rochester, who is... | Jane's melodramatic discovery of the ruined Thornfield and her recounting of the story of Bertha Mason's mad and fiery death lead to the novel's last, brief stage at Ferndean, during which Jane and Rochester are able to marry at last. It is possible to question Jane Eyre's proto-feminism on the grounds that Jane only b... | 205 | 489 |
1,260 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/39.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Jane Eyre/section_9_part_3.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 38 | volume 3, chapter 38 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 38", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section10/", "summary": "Jane and Rochester marry with no witnesses other than the parson and the church clerk. Jane writes to her cousins with the news. St. John never acknowledges what has happe... |
Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and
clerk, were alone present. When we got back from church, I went into the
kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John
cleaning the knives, and I said--
"Mary, I have been married to Mr. Rochester this morning." The
h... | 1,720 | volume 3, Chapter 38 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210123075639/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/janeeyre/section10/ | Jane and Rochester marry with no witnesses other than the parson and the church clerk. Jane writes to her cousins with the news. St. John never acknowledges what has happened, but Mary and Diana write back with their good wishes. Jane visits Adele at her school, and finds her unhappy. Remembering her own childhood expe... | Jane's melodramatic discovery of the ruined Thornfield and her recounting of the story of Bertha Mason's mad and fiery death lead to the novel's last, brief stage at Ferndean, during which Jane and Rochester are able to marry at last. It is possible to question Jane Eyre's proto-feminism on the grounds that Jane only b... | 229 | 489 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/02.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 1 | chapter 1 | null | {"name": "Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre14.asp", "summary": "It is a cold and dreary winter afternoon, and outdoor activity is impossible. Jane's aunt, Mrs. Reed, has her own children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana, happily gathered... |
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 (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold
winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so
penetrating, that further out-door exercis... | 1,805 | Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre14.asp | It is a cold and dreary winter afternoon, and outdoor activity is impossible. Jane's aunt, Mrs. Reed, has her own children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana, happily gathered around her on a sofa in the drawing room of Gateshead Hall. Jane is excluded from the group. She steals into the adjoining breakfast room and sits in a... | Notes Chapter 1 presents Jane as an emotionally deprived child, completely at the mercy of the Reeds, who not only abuse her physically, but also torment her mentally by excluding her from the family circle. She is denied the freedom to escape through her imagination by looking out of a window or reading a book. In the... | 188 | 197 |
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