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JANE EYRE
an abridgment of the novel
THE CAST
Jane Eyre . CLAIRE BLOOM Timing
Edward Fairfax Rochester ANTHONY QUAYLE Side One: Jane Eyre’s early years, through her arrival at Thornfield 32:34
Mrs. Fairfax
Grace Poole CATHLEEN NESBITT Side Two: First acquaintance with Thornfield and with Mr. Rochester eoBae2g
Clergyman Wood Side Three: Rochester’s account of his past, through his announcement
GEORGE ROSE of intended
Innkeeper marriage with Blanche Ingram Mae | abe a
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Diana Rivers MARIA LENNARD Side Four: Rochester’s declaration of love, through the wedding scene 32:00
Mr. Brocklehurst Side Five: Jane’s final struggle with Rochester, through her consideration of
Mr. Briggs JOHN MALCOLM marriage with St. John Rivers 32°35
Adéle Varens ANNA JUSTINE STEIGER Side Six: The night of Jane’s presentiment, to the conclusion 31:43
Jane Eyre is one of the most enthralling romances ever written.
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partly involved. J ane is summoned to her Aunt Reed’s deathbed,* and learns that
she has, in fact, a aglative, an uncle, in the West Indies.
The story has everything a story needs to hold the reader’s interest. It is full of
exciting incident, abounds in suspense, and holds a mystery with a most unexpected On her return to Thornfield, Rochester ina most beautiful and tender scene de-
solution. Above all, it is the kind of story which awakens our sympathy. We feel a clares his love for Jane and begs her to marry him. Their wedding, however, is
passionate indignation on Jane’s behalf; we long for her to triumph, we long for interrupted by a witness sent by her uncle, who declares that Rochester has a wife
her enemies to be routed. still living. Rochester implores Jane to live with him as his mistress; she refuses,
leaves Thornfield, wanders almost distraught, is eventually rescued and received by
When we first meet Jane she is ten years old, living, an unhappy orphan, with
the Rivers sisters, whose brother wishes Jane to marry him and become a missionary
her hard-hearted aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her three thoroughly nasty cousins, Eliza,
at his side. !
Georgiana and John. Eliza is mean and priggish, Georgiana a spoilt beauty, John
a coarse bully. They persecute her, she rebels, and presently is sent away to board- Since Jane Eyre is a romance, it ends with Jane’s eventual legal marriage to
ing school at Lowood. Rochester; but since it is not a Freudian wish-fulfillment daydream, Rochester has
been blinded in a fire at Thornfield started by his mad wife and is living in retire-
Jane’s poignant experiences at Lowood are drawn from Charlotte Bronté’s own ment, so that Jane and her husband experience what Charlotte called the mixed
experiences at a similar charity school, and the careless noble untidy Helerf is a and moderate cup of enjoyment natural to human affairs.
portrait“of Charlotte’s own elder sister Maria, who, like Helen, died as a child from
consumption. Even in this outline, the story exerts a strong spell. But its real power — the
power which makes it a masterpiece — lies in its characterization. The character of
In spite of her anguish at Lowood, Jane acquires a reasonably good education,
Jane is a superb creation. Poor, plain, obscure, inexperienced, with a slight figure,
so that she is offered a post as teacher there. After some time she answers a news-
green eyes and old-fashioned dress, within this dim exterior Jane is a soul of fire, a
paper advertisement and finds herself governess in the mansion of Thornfield to a
resolute, wild, free thing, who defies Rochester, wins his love and defeats him. —
little half-French girl, Adéle Varens. | inything so frail and so indomitable!” he exclaims. When asked to
Surprised by Adéle’s nationality, mistress and live at his side in, as she believes, immoral love and
Jane is still r nore surprised to discover that luxury, she reflects that nobody would care if she did so. But at once she corrects
‘Mrs. Fairfax, whom she has regarded as the mistr the house, is in reality only this. “7 care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more
the housekeeper. She is, however, a distant relative of thereal owner, who after a unsus-
tained I am, the more I will respect myself.” - =
time returns from London to Thornfield. ©
Here, with the entrance of Edward Fairfax Rochester, the current of the story
The minor characters in this novel: good dull boring Mrs. Fairfax, silly but
rather sweet Adéle, chilly St. John Rivers, the frightful Mrs. Rochester, the odious
begins to run deep and dark and turbulent, for sexual love surges into Jane’s heart
Reeds, the loyal Diana — they are all admirably drawn, but the significance of
and threatens to destroy her independence and her integrity. Rochester has become
Jane Eyre lies in Jane. She is a thoroughly modern woman. She has her living to
a character so well known that his name is often used to signify his type — grim,
earn and her integrity to defend, in a hard world; she claims for herself the right
dark, powerful, sophisticated, a man of the world, immensely though scornfully
to love, to tell her love, to act as her free will and clear mind dictate. ber
attractive to women. He seems to turn towards the rich and beautiful but arrogant
1847, when Jane Eyre was published, these claims shocked some readers. Not,
and stupid Blanche Ingram but really loves Jane, though a mystery hangs over
however, Queen Victoria, who read the book to dear Albert, the Prince Consort,
Thornfield, concerning a half-mad drunkard, in which Jane gradually becomes
with great appreciation.) Today we know that Jane is a character with whom it is
a spiritual enrichment as well as a great enjoyment to identify ourselves.
“omitted in this abridgment. PHYLLIS BENTLEY
Phyllis Bentley is the author of the BRONTES AND THEIR WORLD, as well as of numerous novels and the Miss Phipps series of mystery stories. 5
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