Does Jane Eyre have a happy or a sad ending?
The common experience of this much loved novel is to weep while reading the final chapter. Are we crying with happiness, because Jane and Rochester are together at last? Or with pity-for them or for ourselves-because he is blind and maimed? Of course, it's not impossible that we are crying strictly on our own behalf, because the tale has to end, and we'll have to part from Jane.
Jane Eyre is one of the best known, most closely read and written about works in the Western canon. Some say it is a romance; others call it a mythic quest or the first romantic novel with female narrator.
Speaking of Jane I'd like to give some explanation of our narrator's character Jane.
Well.. Jane is nothing if not a rebel. She won't lie even if lies would smooth her progress. From the moment we meet her, she is struggling against the injustice of her lot, and she refuses to be convinced that humility is her only option. In many ways she is the first modern heroine in fiction.
Jane seems to be possessed of the greatest treasure a woman can have: self-respect.
I am sure everyone who reads the novel would be amazed by Jane's character as I was too. Before coming to the end of this description I will also mention the themes this novels deals with;
'morality' (Jane refuses to marry Rochester when she learns that he is already married)
'gender relations' ( she struggles against the Victorian patriarchal society)
'social mobility' and 'religion'
Jane Eyre is one of the first feminist heroines in the British fiction and the novel might be considered as a manifesto of feminism.
I hope this description will be helpful to all of you especially to those studying English l & l.