by Naureen Aslam

Created on: July 31, 2010   Last Updated: August 17, 2011

The classical novel Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855). She was the most prolific and mot successful amongst her sisters regarding her literary career. Thackeray eulogized her particular work as “A Classical Masterpiece”. Her novel, Jane Eyre (1847) is a passionate tale of sublime love between two individuals belonging to entirely contrasting backgrounds. She weaved the trials and tribulations suffered by her lead pair intimately with the Victorian prejudices and ill social fetters to expose the ills that plague happy lives. Even after the passage of many centuries Jane Eyre, stands apart and equally above any other romantic tale.

The value of the realms of emotions along with the agonized fury of our passions has not been ever rendered as immaculate as in this novel. Charlotte rendered majestic illumination upon the secret ways of infinitely merciful Divine powers, through her words in Jane Eyre. Its beauty results from the fact that what happens, when two opposite personalities experience an irresistible attraction for their divinely chosen soul mate. A strange magnetism with a promise of hope and bliss emanates from every single word of this work.

No passage of life is free from hardships, toils and challenges. Thus she did not entirely purport acquisition of love as the sole aim; rather the bountiful rewards obtained after life's laborious toils are the real pearls of this sea shell. She delineated with passion that how desolate, lonesome routes of life can even support blissful flower beds. An entire milky way may be waiting to descend and illuminate the dark passages of a lone wanderer is the remarkable differentiating factor of Jane Eyre from a simple love story. Besides she presented the sour and acrid phases of life with a truth and profundity. Her novel is filled with nothing else than what life is about. 

Jane Eyre, an orphan and a plain girl is the female lead of this novel. As the novel opens, the reader finds her living miserably with her ruthless and indifferent cousins. She is an unwanted burden in her Aunt's home. Her Aunt is bound by her late husband's will to take care of young, orphan girl. But this promise costs tender Jane, many tearful nights, frightened, agonized days and worst childhood memories forever.

Her intelligence and sensitivity is in direct opposition to the highly inferior manners and intelligence of her Aunt’s family. John Reed, her male cousin perpetually tortures her mentally and

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