Review of Jane Eyre
Brief Introduction:
Jane Eyre is a book which can be appreciated in different perspectives like autobiography,romance, and Gothic horror story as well as the Bildungsroman . At first.let me make a brief introduction in the first perpective.If you are familiar with the author Charlotte Brontë, you can find that there are so many autobiographic elements in the book. So we can say that  the prototype of Jane Eyre actually is the author herself.
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), English writer noted for her novel Jane Eyre (1847), sister of Anne Bronte and Emily Bronte. The three sisters are almost as famous for their short, tragic lives as for their novels. In the past 40 years Charlotte Brontë's reputation has risen rapidly, and feminist criticism has done much to show that she was speaking up for oppressed women of every age.
  Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the north of England, the daughter of an Anglicappreciates
an clergyman who moved with his family to Haworth amid the Yorkshire moors in 1820. After their mother and two eldest children died, Charlotte was left with her sisters Emily and Anne and brother Branwell to the care of their father, and their strict, religious aunt, Elisabeth Branwell.
Charlotte attended the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge in 1824. She returned home next year because of the harsh conditions. In 1831 she went to school at Roe Head, where she later worked as a teacher. However, she fell ill, suffered from melancholia, and gave up this post. Charlotte's attempts to earn her living as a governess were hindered by her disabling shyness, her ignorance of normal children, and her yearning to be with her sisters.
From the introduction you can find that it is very similar with the experience of Jane Eyre.
Setting:
Jane Eyre is critical of  Victorian England's strict social hierarchy.
And the novel is structured around five separate locations,all supposedly in northern England: the Reed family's home at Gateshead, the wretched Lowood schoo ,Rochester's manor house Thornfield,the Rivers family's home at Moor House,and Rochester's rural retreat at Ferndean.
Summary:
The plot of Jane Eyre follows the form of a Bildungsroman ,which is a story of a child's maturation and focuses on the emotions and experiences that accompany her growth to adulthood..
Set in early nineteenth-century England, Jane Eyre moves through various locations.Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs Reed,her cruel ,wealthy aunt.Jane experiences overt class subordination. After her altercation with Mrs. Reed's bully son, John, Jane is forcibly removed to an isolated room Because of Mr Lloyd'suggestion ,Jane is sent to Lowood school.
    At Lowood school, the building is bleak, sparely furnished, and underheated, and the students there were tortured by the cruel and hypocritical headmaster Mr Brocklehurst. Jane remains at Lowood as a teacher after completing her studies, but she soon advertises for a governess position and is solicited by Mrs. Fairfax of Thornfield. At Thornfield Manor, a gothic three-story mansion, Jane serves as governess to Adele Varens, a ward of Edward Rochester, owner of the estate.
  Jane's accepted Rochester's marriage proposal .Her wedding ceremony dramatically interrupted by a shocking revelation, Rochester has a wife .Jane travels to Whitcross, located two days away from Thornfield in the moors of the north Midlands. Lacking food and money, Jane eats and sleeps in the heather until she is welcomed into Moor House, the rustic home of St. John Rivers, a sincere parson. She is offered employment by St. John as mistress of a new girls' school and moves into a simple cottage, but a premonition of Rochester's voice calling her back to Thornfield finally prompts her departure from Whitcross.
    Upon returning to Thornfield, Jane finds only a fire-blackened shell, Thornfield has been fired by Rochester's insane wife, now dead. Jane reunites with Rochester, now blind and living at Ferndean.They marry, and the simple, virtuous life of Ferndean restores Rochester's sight.
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Characterization:
Jane Eyre:
  She is the prototype of the novel, the novel is also named by it. So by the anlysis of Jane Eyre , we can dig lots of thing like the theme, the writing devices and so on . Then I will try my best to analysize Jane Eyre. In general, Jane Eyre is an intelligent ,honest,plain-featured young girl forced to contend with oppression,inequality,and  hardship. No matter what kind of difficulties she meets, she always succeeds in maintaining her principles of justice ,human dignity and morality.Her strong belief in gender and social equality challenges the Victorian prejudices against women and the poor.