Fairfax informs her that the mad Bertha had escaped confinement, set the place on fire, and fled to the roof. Jane returns to Thornfield and finds it in ruins. Reed dies, Jane ponders what to do next, when she hears an anguished and beloved male voice from thin air calling her name.
She discovers that her aunt has suffered a stroke, caused by worry over the ruinous gambling habits of her son, who it is revealed has committed suicide. With her funds exhausted, Jane returns to Gateshead. Though she and Rochester care for each other, she determinedly departs Thornfield. Jane rejects Rochester's offer to stay together without being married. Rochester calls off the marriage ceremony and takes Jane and Mason back to Thornfield to reveal his insane wife, who lives in a tower cell guarded by Grace Poole. This is confirmed by Mason, Rochester's brother-in-law. He reveals to Jane that he intends to marry her.ĭuring the wedding ceremony, an attorney intervenes and declares that Rochester has a wife by the name of Bertha Antonietta Mason, who is mentally ill and deranged. Unaware of this development, Jane broaches the topic of her future employment elsewhere after Rochester gets married. Offended, she and the other guests leave. Rochester has a private conversation with Blanche, in which he bluntly asserts that she is a gold digger. Rochester has the doctor take Mason away. Behind her, a locked wooden door rattles with someone trying to get out, but Rochester orders Jane to ignore everything she sees or hears. Rochester assures his guests it is just a servant's reaction to a nightmare, but after he sends them back to their rooms, he has Jane secretly tend to a bleeding Mason in the tower while he fetches a doctor. That night, a pained scream awakens everyone. When a man named Richard Mason of Spanish Town, Jamaica, arrives at Thornfield, Jane sees that Rochester is disturbed. However, Rochester confides to Jane his conviction that Blanche is attracted only by his wealth. Fairfax discloses that everyone expects Rochester to marry the vivacious Blanche Ingram. The next morning, he leaves Thornfield.Ī winter and spring go by before he returns with a large group of guests. When he returns, he tells Jane nothing other than that the matter is under control. Rochester bids her wait while he goes to another wing of the house, where mysterious seamstress Grace Poole keeps to herself.
She rouses the sleeping man and they extinguish the fire without rousing anyone. She investigates, and discovers that Rochester's bed curtains are on fire. That night, Jane is awakened by strange laughter. His brusque manner contrasts with her quiet, gentle demeanor, and he finally dismisses her with the wish that she will enjoy her stay there. When Jane arrives back at Thornfield, she discovers this fact, and Rochester calls her into his library to interview her. Jane goes for a walk one night only to startle a horse into throwing and slightly injuring its rider, Edward Rochester-whom she doesn't realize is her employer. Fairfax, who is in fact the housekeeper for the absent master. When she arrives at Thornfield, a gloomy, isolated mansion, she initially thinks her employer is Mrs. She advertises for and accepts a job as governess for a young girl named Adèle. Ten years later, in 1840, twenty-year-old Jane turns down Brocklehurst's offer of a teaching position. Rivers, a sympathetic physician who periodically checks on the students, brings the girls inside, but it is too late for Helen, who dies that night. Both are punished by being forced to walk circles in a courtyard during a downpour. Later, Jane protests when Brocklehurst orders that Helen's naturally curling hair be cut. She is comforted and befriended by another student, Helen Burns. Brocklehurst labels Jane a liar in front of her schoolmates and orders her to stand on a stool for hours on her first day of attendance. Reed, eager to be rid of her, arranges for Jane to be sent to Lowood Institution, a charity boarding school for young girls, run by the disciplinarian Mr. Orphaned, unloved, and unwanted ten-year-old Jane Eyre lives with her cruel, selfish, uncaring maternal aunt via marriage, Mrs.
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