Hired as housekeeper for the rich Edward Rochester, young Jane Eyre quickly falls under the spell of her owner, a touchy man who falls in love with her in turn. Differences in age and fortune do not prevent Rochester from proposing to her. But Rochester is hiding a terrible secret ...
Jane Eyre is a novel by training: an unloved orphan, with an ungrateful physique, who revolts against oppression, criticizes the mores of Victorian society, faces the throes of the passion she feels for a dark and arrogant aristocrat. , whose mysterious past resurfaces. Gothic novel through the symbolic power of the place, rewriting of fairy tales, false autobiography, this polymorphic novel not only makes the housekeeper accede to the rank of romantic heroine but creates with Rochester, the black rider, a literary myth.
