Bessie Lee
• The maid at Gateshead who sometimes consoled Jane by telling her entertaining stories and singing her songs. Bessie visited Jane at Lowood, impressed by Jane’s intellectual attainments and ladylike behavior.
Eliza Reed
❖ Another one of Jane’s spoiled cousins, Eliza was jealous of the beauty of her sister— Georgiana.She showed no sympathy for her dying mother and decided to break off all contact with Georgiana after their mother’s death. Usefulness is her mantra.颂歌
▪ Born in Yorkshire in northern England ,she had four sisters and a brother. Her sisters Anne and Emily , are also well-known writers. So in the history of English literature, people often call they the "three Bronte sisters."
Sarah Reed
▪ Jane’s unpleasant aunt, who raised her until she was ten years old.She smothered her children with too much love,which made they not only selfish but ugly.And no matter what Jane had done,she always abused Jane without any reason.In a word,she didn't care about Jane.
Jane Eyre
• The protagonist [prəu‘tæ gənist] 主角of the story. She was an orphan
who looked very ordinary.And we could see from the novel that she was bookish,even though she would get abused or beaten when she secretly read the books. She was mistreated by her aunt and cousins,but she was still very frank , enthusiastic.
John Reed
❖ Jane’s nasty and spoiled cousin, responsible for Jane’s banishment[‘bæniʃmənt]驱逐 to the red-room. He cared nothing about his family even his mother had given so much love to him.If he did not change himself,at the end,he would become a good for nothing bum!废物
▪ When Charlotte was 14 years old, she had written a number of novels,This was one of two reasons why she could write such a good novel—Jane Eyre. The other reason was that Jane Eyre’s plots and characters were mostly from her life experience.
Mr. Lloyd
• The kind pharmercist who suggested that Jane be sent to school because of her terrible experience in the red-room. His letter to Miss Temple cleared Jane of the accusations Mrs. Reed has made against her.
Georgiana Reed
• Eliza’s and John’s sister, Georgiana was the beauty of the family. She’s also shallow and self-centered. She accused her sister, Eliza, of breaking her plans to marry Lord Edwin Vere. Like Eliza, she showed no emotion in their mother’s death.
The novel was so successful that it shocked the British literary world .
Present characters
• 1. Jane Eyre • 2. Sarah Reed • 3. John Reed • 4. Eliza Reed • 5. Georgiana Reed • 6. Bessie Lee • 7. Mr. Lloyd • 8.Mr. Brocklehurst • 9. Helen Burns • 10. Maria Temple • 11. Miss Miller