Jane Eyre is a young orphan. When Jane grows up, she spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher.
After teaching for two years, Jane accepts a governess position at Thornfield. Jane's employer at Thornfield is Rochester, with whom Jane finds herself falling secretly in love. She saves Rochester from a fire one night, which he claims was started by a drunken servant. But Jane doesn't believe it because the servant continues to work at Thornfield. Rochester proposes to Jane.
The wedding day arrives, and as Jane and Mr. Rochester prepare to exchange their vows, Mr. Mason cries out that Rochester already has a wife-Bertha. Rochester does not deny Mason's claims, but he explains that Bertha has gone mad. And he proves It. Kochester keeps Bertha hidden and pays a servant to keep his wife under control. Bertha was the real cause of the mysterious fire earlier in the story. Knowing that it is impossible for her to be with Rochester, Jane leaves Thornfield.
Jane is penniless and hungry. To her surprise, her uncle, John Eyre, has died and left her a large fortune. St. John who has helped asks Jane to marry him but Jane refuses because she does not love him. She knows that she cannot abandon her true love. Jane hurries back to Thornfield and finds that it has been burned to the ground by Bertha, who lost her life in the fire. Rochester saved the servants but lost his eyesight and one of his hands. Jane travels on to Rochester s new residence, Ferndean.
At Ferndean, Rochester and Jane rebuild their relationship and soon get married.
