Part 1
A lone girl, clad in orange clothes from head to toe walks alone in a desert.
She sits, exhausted, staring at her surroundings which are all but dust.
The girl with blue eyes and freckles stares intently at the fading sun in front of her,
and suddenly the scene changes to that exact girl, sitting behind a curtain and reading
a book with illustrations of travels and scenery.
A man comes to look for her, calling her a rat.
She is pulled out by a boy and his mother and smacked with the same book she was reading.
Unable to handle the mistreatment, she hits the boy back, knocking him down.
He screams at his mother to catch the girl, and she is caught by maids who take her up
to a ‘red room.’
In there, she sits on the floor and cries, begging Uncle Reed not to come back.
Jane, the little girl turns back to see an old man on the bed, glaring at her.
She is so terrified that she bangs on the door, screeching for someone to let her out…
But no one does.
Later, the family she is with has their painting drawn, and the painter kindly asks a timid
Jane to join them, but the people snarkily tell him that she is not part of their family.
A bit later at night, the little girl stands in front of the woman in the house, and the
woman tells the girl that she has tried her best to abide by her husband’s wishes of
loving Jane, but Jane herself has made it impossible.
When she stares at the woman quietly, she gets yelled at, the woman calling the poor
little girl unnatural.
Jane finally stares the woman in the eyes, and tells her that she has not tried hard
enough to follow her dead uncle’s wishes, and that is why he haunts the red room.
Disbelievingly, the woman gets up, about to punish Jane for her sharp tongue, but does
not.
Instead, the next day, she calls forth a man in dark robes who questions Jane about what
kind of a girl she is; a deceitful one or a good one.
She is then put in a carriage and taken to a shady place.
As they walk Jane eyes the many shoes and robes aligned by the walls.
They walk by several beds, and Jane is finally put in one of many, and finally, the people
escorting her leave.
In the morning, Jane is woken up by a bell right next to her ears, and she clumsily follows
along with the several girls as they systematically move to the bell, washing their faces and
getting ready.
All the girls, plus Jane, sit in what seems to be a church-like room, and they get up
quickly as the man in charge walks in; it is the same one who fetched Jane from her
home.
As everyone sits again, Jane trips a little, grabbing the man’s attention who asks her
to step out.
At the front of the room, the man exclaims to everyone that Jane is a liar, and she is
made to wear a signboard that says ‘Liar’, the man tells her to stand on top of a chair
and tells her she will keep standing there till midnight, without getting any food and
water, and she will have to beg for God’s forgiveness.
And that's what she does.
Later, she sits with her friend Helen, telling her she wants to escape to somewhere warmer.
Helen tells Jane to be on her best behavior, only then will they ever be allowed to leave
this place, this wretched place where their families left them to fend for herself.
As Jane lays in bed, she turns to see Helen missing.
She looks for her friend all over.
At this time, there are several girls coughing in their beds, seems as if the poor healthcare
has gotten to several girls.
Jane finds Helen laying alone in a bed, and she lays beside her weak friend, falling asleep
while holding hands.
The workers wake Jane up beside the lifeless body of Helen, who has passed away.
Jane cries as she is taken away.
She sits beside her friend’s grave and draws the scene of the cemetery.
There is a time-skip of several years, and Jane has now grown into a fine, beautiful
lady.
However, she is still at the Lowood school, now teaching the young girls to draw.
She seems to be one of the teachers now.
At lunchtime, she receives a letter, and quickly keeps it in her robe, reading it outside by
the tree.
The contents of the letter state that if Jane has shown a good attitude, then she should
be able to get a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall, for the ward of Mr. Rochester,
Adele.
Jane rides to her new destination, which is an enormous castle-like building with a single
light shining through.
The scary, dark entrance gets to her and she breathes deeply, a little scared.
She is led by an old man to a room, and is greeted by an older woman who gives her a
hearty meal.
She asks how long it has been since Jane enjoyed good food by the fireplace, and is surprised
when Jane says it has been 8 years.
Later, she is led down to her room, where the young girl sleeps.
In the morning, she wakes up with a smile on her face, walking to the window and watching
the outside, now shining with sunlight, with the sounds of birds chirping.
She talks a walk by the garden, walking down the stone steps to see a window with a red
cloth flying.
She is met by the housekeeper, who takes Jane to Ms. Adele, a bright girl who sings and
dances in french.
Thankfully, Jane can understand and speak the language herself, and she begins with
lessons for the girl.
November turns to February, it has been four months since Jane has been situated in her
new home.
One day, she walks into someone’s study, and eyes the contents around the room, interested
in the collection of butterflies, and bugs that decorate the room.
Sitting outside one day, Jane sees the red cloth by the window again, she stares, confused.
She walks down a foggy pathway and is unable to see that there is an angry horse approaching
her way.
The horse finally stops in front of Jane, and the man sitting atop it is thrown off.
Jane quickly offers to help the man, who lightly accuses her of being a witch who bewitched
his horse, but she denies it.
She helps the man on top of the horse again, he asks for her name and then rides off.
Later, as Jane returns to the house, she is met with the news that Mr. Rochester is back.
She is told that the man had an accident on the road, and as Jane stares at the dog in
the kitchen, she realizes that Rochester is the one she met on the road.
The next morning, Jane is called forth by Rochester, so that she can meet him.
The housekeeper gets her to change into something better, and she gets ready in front of a mirror.
Since Jane does not own several dresses, she wears her only other one, which is seemingly
better.
The cranky Rochester calls Jane to sit where he can see her, as he hands Adele a gift,
telling her to go away so he can talk to Miss Eyre.
He asks her about her family and friends, but Jane says she has none, to which Rochester
calls her lucky for not loving another soul, because she will never have to be disappointed.
Rochester then asks Jane to play the piano, and she starts playing as Rochester flips
through the many sketches drawn by Jane Eyre.
He finally tells her to stop playing and asks her about her amazing drawings.
Rochester seems surprised by her talent, but he hides it well behind a mask of annoyance.
Quickly, he tells her to take Adele and put her to bed.
Later, the housekeeper apologizes for Rochester’s harsh manners, but Jane says she is not phased.
The next morning, Jane is in the library flipping through books when Rochester calls her, bringing
her to his study.
She is told to sit in front of him, and she quickly apologizes for reading the books without
asking him first, but Rochester tells her she is an adult, smart lady who can do what
she likes, because she is the only one who will read the books.
After an awkward silence, he demands that she talk, but then says it more politely.
Jane does not know what to say, and smiles a bit, telling him that it is peculiar that
her employer wants her to talk.
Rochester comes closer to Jane, and asks if she finds him attractive, but Jane quickly
says that she does not; that it is the interior of a person that matters.
Rochester warns Jane not to look so far into his soul, that what she will find will not
be beautiful.
The next morning, the housekeepers follow Rochester, as he searches for new bugs by
the river.
His peculiar hobby is not understood by many, and Adele questions why he does so; to which
Rochester replies rudely.
But he soon sits back down with Adele, and tells her of a little gray bird who is scared
to speak up because she fears she will get beaten, but once she raises her wings, she
will fly high.
Hearing this makes Jane smile, because it is obvious that he is talking about her.
Adele soon leaves, leaving Jane and Rochester alone.
The man asks Jane to walk with him, and Jane lectures him a bit about how he should not
despise young Adele.
Later on, as Jane sleeps, she is woken by a weird sound by the door.
Alarmingly, she gets up.
Slowly walking towards the wooden door dimply lit by a candle, she turns the knob and opens
the door to find Rochester's dog.
She smiles at the animal who is then called by his master.
The next morning, she joins Mr. Rochester in his hunt for insects, and he soon asks
her to sit with him by the river.
He starts talking about his life, about Adele.
He calls her his mistake, that he went down the wrong path.
She stares at him with interest, but he misjudges it for judgment and pity.
She quickly looks away as he continues his story of himself in Paris.
He remembers his then-lover, Celene, who was a dancer.
He was passionately in love with her.
Rochester caught his lover with another man, and present Rochester tells Jane she does
not know what jealousy feels like.
She stares at him and asks if he still loves her, but he denies it completely.
He then asks if there is anything about him that resembles Adele, but Jane says there
is not.
Adele was given to him to raise.
And he did.
He nods and walks away as Jane stares at his retreating back.
Later, Jane tucks Adele into bed and kisses the young girl’s forehead.
She then watches from the window as Rochester strolls in the garden.
Jane sits by the mirror, looks at her reflection, and smiles.
One night, Jane opens the door to her room to hear footsteps and sounds.
When she calls out to the noise, it quietens a bit.
Jane walks down the dark corridors of the house, looking around, trying to find the
source of the weird sounds, and as she walks closer, she comes face to face with a door.
Jane knocks quickly and opens the door to see a bed on fire, and on the bed sleeps Mr.
Rochester!
Part 2
Jane rushes inside and tries to get the fire out, waking Rochester up with water and they
both work together to put out the fire as best they can.
Finally achieving it, they both pant.
Jane offers to send someone to help, but he refuses.
Rochester drapes a blanket over her and sits her down on one of the chairs, telling her
to wait for him.
She sits quietly but gets up soon after, walking around the room to the window, where she sees
another room lit with light, she stares suspiciously at it.
Rochester returns soon after, telling her the matter is settled.
Rochester asks her what she heard, and Jane says she heard someone laugh.
He then sends her back to her room, but as she is leaving without saying goodnight, he
stops her, and asks to shake her hand in respect to her saving his life.
They come face to face with each other as they talk in a hushed voice.
Rochester’s interest in her is obvious, and Jane quickly says she is cold, and he
takes this chance to drape the blanket over her in a romantic way.
Jane then returns to her room, all giddy with this new feeling of having someone she likes.
The next morning, she walks by Rochester’s room and stares at her face in the reflection,
staring at her lips.
She walks inside the room to see maids cleaning up, and sees Grace sitting there; one of the
housekeepers.
Jane has her suspicions about the old woman, and passively interrogates the older woman,
who seems smug.
Jane, later on, sits at a dining table, playing with her food.
The housekeeper comes by and informs Jane that Rochester might be leaving right after
breakfast, to go to a party and will stay a fortnight at the place.
They talk about another lady and Jane seems to be getting jealous over the compliments
the other lady gets.
She seems to be realizing that she and Rochester come from very different worlds.
Jane goes to her room and takes her neck scarf off, the one she wore to look attractive for
Rochester.
Angrily, she sits and draws a portrait of herself.
As Jane sits in the garden with the other maids, she writes a letter to someone, to
who?
No one knows.
Later on, Jane awaits a letter, and as the head housekeeper reads aloud one sent by Rochester.
Things start hustling and bustling as Jane smiles wide, realizing that her crush is returning,
along with several other guests, hence the preparation.
A while later, Jane draws, sitting by the tree and sees a lady ride closer to her, followed
by Mr Rochester.
She watches as the two people have a race over the river, before continuing her work.
Finally at home, the guests arrive.
Rich folks adorned with feathers and jewels, walking gracefully inside.
Jane and Adele watch them.
As the party begins, Jane watches from above as Rochester talks to a pretty lady called
Ingram.
The next day, Adele is called to the party, and along with her, so is Jane.
As they walk downstairs where all the decoration is, Jane sits with a chattering Adele, and
as the guests pour in, the young french girl dances to them, and bows, introducing herself.
The guests stare at her like she is a nuisance, and Ingrid asks Rochester why he has a child
around who requires a governess.
They start talking badly about governesses as a whole, making Jane sit quietly.
Later, as she heads down the steps while the party is in session, Rochester comes up behind
her and asks her why she did not talk to him at the party.
Jane says he looked preoccupied, her tone a little jealous.
He asks what she has been up to, and she quickly says she has been busy teaching Adele.
He tells her she looks pale, and a little depressed, but she rejects the idea, without
looking him in the eye.
He tells her she is about to cry, and she denies it again, but starts crying anyway.
As a maid walks by, he expresses his wish that she comes to the hall every day when
the guests are around.
The next day, she walks down to see Rochester.
He tells her to sit with the rest of the rich group, who are discussing the intricacies
of the human mind.
A man there asks Jane for her thoughts, and she says that regardless of the child’s
good blood or bad blood, she believes everyone should get a chance to love and be loved,
making the women snicker, as they believe children to be no better than dogs.
Rochester stops the conversation and asks Ingram to go horse riding with him, as Adele
and her governess watch.
Later on, Jane tries to excuse herself by saying she has to talk to Mrs. Fairfax, but
Rochester stops her, telling her to be back later because the guests will be playing games.
Rochester then asks Jane what she thinks of Ingram, because he should now look for marriage.
He sternly asks if she thinks he loves Ingram.
Jane tells him she knows nothing of love, and walks away.
As the guests sit down to play, Adele tells them there is a ghost in the house, as said
by Sophie.
But Rochester denies the idea, and instead, offers to play Ouija board with the group.
As they play, intrigued, the board spells heart for Ingram, making her smile.
But then the board spells ‘less’ meaning she is heartless.
Hearing this, Ingram gets up and walks to her guest room.
The next morning, Jane walks along to see a demented painting on the wall and stares.
Rochester leaves for the day, leaving his guests in the comfort of his home.
Jane sits with Adele, and they see someone arrive in a carriage.
It is a friend of Rochester’s, a handsome and kind fellow who some of the ladies have
taken interest in.
There is a gypsy lady outside their door, asking to see the guest's fortunes, and Ingram
is the first to go get her palm read.
She returns back disappointed, and later, Jane is told that she is to get her fortune
as well, otherwise, the gypsy lady will not leave.
Jane enters the room with an old lady sitting there, and sits across from her.
The woman states that Jane is not afraid, and Jane says she has no reason to be because
the woman does not wish her harm.
The gypsy lady begins talking about Jane’s past, surprising Jane.
But Jane claims the woman might've heard these facts from somewhere else, making the fortune
teller laugh.
She asks Jane about her thoughts about Adele, the housekeeper, and Mr. Rochester.
The old lady breaks the news of the master’s wedding, making Jane’s eyes change, something
the old lady notices.
Jane quickly gets up, excusing herself, and that makes the old woman call out to someone
in the room.
Jane peeks behind the curtain to see Mr. Rochester come out with a smile on his face.
He walks to the door, opens it for the old woman, and then closes it, leaving him alone
with Jane.
He asks if she is angry with him, and she says she will have to think about it, making
Rochester smile.
She mentions Mr. Mason sitting in the dining room with the guests, and this makes Rochester
a bit melancholy.
Later he arrives in the dining room and greets Mason heartily, despite what he said before.
At night, there is a sudden ruckus from all the guests as they come out, saying they heard
something.
Just as Rochester is assuring them, Jane sees blood dripping from his sleeve, and she quickly
walks to where he is standing in an attempt to hide the blood.
After they leave, she quickly wipes it with a handkerchief.
She sits alone awaiting Rochester, who quickly comes to fetch her as they head towards the
north tower together, climbing up the stairs.
Rochester turns back and asks if she would faint at the sight of blood, after which he
hands her his candle and leaves her on the staircase.
He walks back to fetch her and opens the door to a room.
As they walk inside, she sees Mr. Mason, blood on his chest.
Rochester puts Jane’s hands on the blood and tells her to apply pressure.
There is mad rattling on the doorknob but Jane sits firmly by Mason.
The next morning arrives with a doctor.
The doctor says Mason has teeth marks on him and asks well.
The poor man keeps talking about a woman who did that to him.
As Mason finally leaves in a carriage, he asks Rochester to take care of ‘her’ as
tentatively as he can.
We do not know who Rochester they are talking about right now.
After he leaves, Rochester and Jane take a walk in the park, and as the guests walk out,
he tells Jane to hide.
Later, Jane sits in her room, exasperated, when she is told she has a visitor.
Jane walks down to see who it is and turns out it is someone from her past.
The girl, Bessie, tears up, making Jane ask what has happened.
Jane Eyre comes to Rochester as he is speaking with Ingram.
She asks for two weeks’ absence as a sick lady requires her help.
When asked who, Jane tells Rochester that it is her late uncle’s wife; also her aunt.
Rochester hands her some money for her travels, giving her a big fifty pounds.
When she refuses, he hands her ten, making both of them smile.
Rochester accuses her of wanting to slip to another family, but Jane refuses, telling
him her previous family does not like her.
As she is leaving, he stops her to say farewell, shakes her hand, and tells her not to go because
he does not know what to do without her.
After saying this, he goes back to Ingram who is calling out to him.
Jane rides the carriage and watches the house she is now accustomed to.
Unknowing to her, there is someone watching from a window.
Part 3
Jane enters her childhood home again, with flashbacks of her traumatizing childhood haunting
every step of her way.
She walks into a room to see her childhood cousins, who look at her with distaste and
hatred, saying Jane has not grown any taller.
Jane ignores all the comments, and politely asks one of the sisters to notify her aunt
of her presence as it was her who wanted to see her.
Jane walks into a room and towards the sick lady in bed, who asks who the lady approaching
her is.
When Jane Eyre introduces herself, her aunt does not believe it, and continues talking
about her hatred for the Jane girl.
Confused, she asks why her aunt hated Jane so much, to which she responds that it is
because she hates Jane’s mother, who was her brother’s favorite sister.
Aunt Reed talks gibberish and screams where john is, tiring herself out and sobs.
Bessie apologizes for the aunt’s rudeness, but Jane says she does not care about what
her aunt says anymore, to which Bessie says she knew Jane would always turn out to be
a fine lady.
She then asks if Jane has friends, and the young governess smiles and tells Bessie of
Rochester, but gets gloomy as she mentions that he will get married soon.
Back home, Rochester stands by the window and watches the sky, and his guests as they
stroll around the garden.
Young Adele dances across where all the guests are situated, making them sigh with annoyance
and wish the governess of the house was there.
Ingram finds Rochester standing by the fireplace by himself, and walks in, coming in and closing
the door.
She makes small talk for a bit before the pretty girl is asked what she wants.
Rochester stares at her with doubt.
Meanwhile, Jane sits with her ‘cousins’ and draws in her sketchbook.
In front of her, her two cousins argue and one makes the other cry as she leaves the
room, sobbing.
Sick aunt Reed wakes up from her sleep, and Jane who is sitting beside her makes her existence
known.
Aunt Reed says she wants to lessen her thoughts before she does, and talks about the promise
to her husband that she broke.
She asks Jane to take out a letter from her drawer and read it.
Jane reads aloud the letter, and in it, a man named John Eyre, another one of Jane’s
uncles has offered to adopt her!
Jane stares at her aunt, asking why she never gave her the letter, and the aunt simply says
it is because she hated Jane.
She says she had her revenge by telling the uncle that Jane had passed away at Lowood.
The aunt starts coughing and asks for water, and Jane quickly gives the wheezing woman
some.
Sitting by aunt Reed, Jane forgives the old lady, and kisses her forehead as she grabs
the letter and soon leaves.
She returns to her home happily, and as she walks closer, she sees Rochester sitting by
the tree.
He gets up quickly, greeting her cheekily, saying he allowed her to go for two weeks
and she took a month off!
He then takes her home, and as they go, she thanks him for his kindness, and then tells
him that wherever he is, would be her home as well.
They then walk back together, and Jane sees a carriage being mounted.
Turns out, it is one of Rochester’s guests.
Just then, the housekeeper and Adele rush out and hug Jane.
They walk inside to see the guests packing to leave.
Jane watches from the window as Ingram bids farewell to Rochester.
She is in the library when she is approached by Rochester again.
He tells her that things are back to normal now that the guests have left.
She keeps her childhood book, in which she used to see the scenic views and pretend to
be there, in the library of her master’s home.
He then takes her out to watch some fireflies and talk about themselves.
As they walk, she tells him of everything that happened in the past month.
Jane then asks of his plans with Miss Ingram, and at her mention, Rochester grows quiet.
He changes the topic by pointing towards insects, and as they see them, someone from the window
watches them.
Later, as Jane is teaching Adele mathematics, the young girl rushes out to see a white carriage
Rochester has brought in for future Mrs. Rochester, making the governess go quiet, as Rochester
cheekily asks Jane if she has any potion which would make him more handsome.
They sit together as Adele sings for them, but Rochester soon stops her.
He then talks about a place where several rich people go in the evening to socialize,
with beautiful passionate music playing, perfume spinning across the air, and several beautiful
women.
Saying all this, he looks up at a window from the house, and snaps at Adele who is singing.
He then talks a little softer to the little girl, who walks away soon after.
Mrs. Fairfax talks to Jane as she cleans, telling her that this is the first time Rochester
has stayed at home.
Fairfax tells Jane that she will have to look for a new position once the master gets married,
but soon reassures the young girl that her master will not leave her be.
As Jane spends more time with Rochester, Rochester asks if Jane has become attached to the place,
and she says she has, he asks if she will be sad to leave, and she says she will be.
Jane asks if she has to leave the house, and Rochester tells her that she will have to.
Hearing this, Jane says she will start advertising immediately, but her master tells her he has
already found a new place for her.
Hearing this, Jane tears up, saying she does not want to be away from him.
They walk to sit together and sigh.
Rochester says they have been good friends, and that it is difficult to part from good
friends, that they were bound together, sharing a spirit.
He says he will bleed when she leaves, making Jane cry.
As soon as he says that she will forget him eventually, she gets up in passion, sobbing
and telling him that she will never forget him, and how could she?
she loves Thornfield.
He watches as she cries to him, she calls him the best thing that has ever happened
to her, because he has treated her like an equal.
Rochester asks again if she must leave him, and she says she has to, because he will have
to marry soon, and that she is not a robot who can stand by and watch him marry.
Her feelings for him are painfully obvious at this point.
Jane cries and cries, talking about how she also has a heart and a soul, and unable to
take it anymore, he holds her and offers his hand to her!
This makes her gasp, and he promises, again and again, removing the doubt in her heart,
until she finally agrees.
For accepting his proposal, he asks her to call him by his real name; Edward.
They kiss and run back as it starts raining, and once in the shelter, they kiss over and
over again as he bids her goodnight, calling her his darling.
Jane wakes up the next day, and walks to the mirror, smiling and twirling around in happiness.
She walks down to see Mrs. Fairfax sitting alone at a table, the older woman is astonished
by the fact that Rochester wants to marry Jane.
It is not because Jane is not beautiful that Fairfax worries, it is because she is too
young and does not know the true interior of men; and that she is too levelheaded for
all of this.
Jane talks to her lover about what Mrs. Fairfax says, and they laugh about it.
He asks if she will dine with him tonight, and she says no, at least until they are married.
She also tells him she will not call him Edward until they get married.
Happily, he gets up, telling her to get her bonnet because he wants to take her to town
for shopping!
He offers to take her in the white carriage, but she cheekily says it is ridiculous.
He laughs and tells the rider to get the normal carriage.
She also tells him that Adele will come along, much to Rochester's reluctance.
In the carriage, Rochester talks about how well he will keep his lady.
At the clothing shop, they pick out fabrics, evening dresses, and necklaces.
Which Adele picks out herself.
Back at home, Jane looks at the beautiful necklace he bought her and repeats to herself
“Jane Eyre will not be overwhelmed.”
At night, Jane talks to Adele, who says she does not want to go to a boarding school and
would rather stay here, but Jane says she will pick out a good school for her where
she will definitely not be mistreated.
At night while Jane is sleeping, she gets a terrible nightmare that jolts her awake,
and she vaguely sees someone leaving her side with a candle.
In the morning, Jane runs to where Rochester is coming back from his errand, they kiss
and she brings him to her room where she tells him what happened.
He thanks God that she is safe, and tells her to put her anxieties aside.
She says she is not worried, because she loves him.
Jane turns around in his arms as he hugs her and they watch the moon from the window.
A few days later, Jane gets ready for the wedding she is about to have; clad in her
white gown, she looks at herself with a smile, and walks to where her lover is waiting for
her.
He stares at her with love and drags her to the church, meanwhile, he tells the employees
to put their luggage in the carriage because they will leave the moment they come back.
They rush to the church, where the priest begins the ceremony with no guests around.
As they are standing by the altar, a man named Mr. Briggs barges in and announces that the
wedding cannot happen, because Edward Rochester already has a wife.
The man reads aloud a note that says Rochester is married to a woman named Bertha.
Jane Eyre stares endlessly at nothing as this is happening.
Rochester demands a witness to this, and in comes Mr. Mason, who mentions that it is his
sister that Edward is married to, and that she lives at Thornfield Hall.
Defeated, Edward admits it, and having had enough, he calls off the wedding and looks
towards Jane, telling her that there is someone who he would like her to meet.
He takes her back and leads everyone, including the guests up to a strange lady with unkempt
hair adorned in long clothes.
She smiles at everyone but as she sees Jane wearing wedding clothes, she lashes at her.
Edward stops her and everyone rushes out the door.
Outside, he tells everyone how his father wanted a rich dowry and Mason and Bertha took
advantage of him and married him, and soon after he found out that Bertha is mentally
ill.
He says he brought her to Thornfield to make this home a comfortable prison for her, and
left her here while he traveled the world in order to forget what happened.
Until one day, a girl came to him, who didn’t know of anything.
He looks toward Jane, talking about her calmness, her purity and how he wanted her.
But now he asks her to leave, so that he can tend to his wife.
Jane turns around and rushes to her room.
Inside, she takes her necklace off and sits.
There is a knock on the door.
It is her lover.
He begs for her forgiveness, and tells her to come with him to live in his other home,
since she has no other family who will mind all this, she is free to go anywhere with
him.
But even after hearing his pleas and knocks, Jane continues taking her jewelry off solemnly,
slipping off her dress and getting back into her dull gray clothes.
She keeps the wedding dress back in her trunk, and stares at her plain self in the mirror
once again, before laying back in bed numbly, and closing her eyes.
Part 4
Jane’s hair blows and she awakens outside her home, near boulders.
She drinks from a small pond and eyes the farmer staring at her, who quickly leaves
as if he is afraid of her.
The once tidy girl now walks with ragged hair, walking, without a destination, and lays down
among rocks.
She prays to God for help, and remembers her friend from childhood who died.
Amidst her blurry eyes, she sees a man helping her up.
In a white bed, Jane, pale as ice, listens to a conversation about how many weeks the
girl has been sleeping, and she closes her eyes again, dreaming of her running away in
her wedding gown with Rochester running after her, calling out her name.
The next time Jane opens her eyes, someone is giving her water, she turns her head to
see a young man staring at her.
Jane apologizes to the two stranger women who speculate about her upbringing, claiming
she must be a well-bred lady.
But since Jane does not know where she is from, or who she is, she cannot tell them
anything.
The only thing she can tell them is that she is honest.
The young man in the room stops the two women from speculating, because it is not nice or
proper.
Sometime later, Jane stands by the fireplace, smiling at the maid, and tells her that she
likes fire a lot.
The young man who took her in comes in, and he calls her Jane Elliot, apparently a name
that his sisters named her, because it suited her.
He asks if she will stay with them, and if she will stay without giving anything in return,
but that is obviously not in Jane’s nature.
She tells him she will work for his family, and any honest work would do.
One day, as they are walking, Jane tells the new people of several insects and birds and
gets a flashback of Rochester.
There is someone there to meet ‘Ms Elliot’, a pretty girl who goes by the name Rosamond,
who talks to the young man as the other girls and Jane witness the scene.
They talk about how no one should deny themselves the experience of love.
Out of the snow, Jane walks into a church and has a flashback of her life, making her
sit down on the chairs.
The man comes behind Jane and asks if she is okay.
He then tells her of this new job that he has picked out for her by the church, where
she will be provided with accommodation as well.
Jane takes the job as long as her requirements are met; she will teach without beating her
students.
The man who goes by St John smiles and tells her he does not think she will stay at the
job for long, only because her emotions are very overpowering.
Jane settles into her new home, and lays her head down on the mattress as she remembers
a man’s words.
Since she cannot remember her life, she only gets glimpses of Edward Rochester and the
way he so passionately kissed her, while talking to her, about her.
Jane cries in her bed loudly, sobbing with despair over her returning memories.
The next day, Jane draws St John a portrait of the woman he loves, and then blatantly
asks why he will not marry the woman, since he loves her and so does she.
But St John seems to be hell-bent on his thoughts.
He changes the topic quickly but Jane still pushes on.
She tells him he trembles at the sight of her.
Stricken with passion St John tells Jane that he is very much in love with Rosamond very
intensely, but he knows she would not make a good wife, because he is a missionary.
As he is leaving, Jane asks him if Rosamond Oliver’s feelings mean nothing to him!
But he says that she is surrounded by suitors and soon enough she will be married to someone
who is better than him.
Jane once again tries convincing him, saying he might never find love again.
But St John calls her an interesting woman, and that he is looking forward to her career,
and leaves.
Jane once again remembers the time she and Edward were kissing wildly, when she tried
to resist him as best she could, but she could not.
At long last he pulls away and hugs her from behind, telling her to stay with him and he
will not force her to live a life of sin.
She back then told him that she wanted to rest and that they would talk tomorrow, but
little did he know, she would run away soon after.
After that Jane takes the carriage and gets dropped off in the middle of nowhere, where
she falls to the ground in the agony of leaving her love, and sobs alone.
A year later, Jane Elliot dismisses a class full of students with a smile on her face,
and in walks St John who compliments her skills of teaching.
Turns out, Rosamond did get married to someone else.
But that's not why St John is here.
He wants to talk about something, or rather, wants to tell her a story.
From there on, he tells her entire life story, about her parent's death, her abusive aunt,
her time at Lowood school, her time as a governess, her broken marriage with Rochester and ends
with a certain Mr. Briggs, a solicitor who is looking for her.
He wants her to know how exactly he found all this out, and tells her that he got to
know through a housekeeper who was related to a Mrs. Fairfax.
Jane ignores everything St John says and asks only of Edward Rochester, but he says he is
not interested in him, and so wasn’t Mr. Briggs.
He wants her to know that Jane’s uncle has died, and left her all his property and fortune.
He mentions 20, 000 pounds worth of fortune, but Jane is only sorry that her uncle is now
dead.
St John sighs and as he is leaving, Jane runs after him and asks him to tell her more.
He is reluctant because he believes she has had a shock that is enough for the entire
day.
However, the curious Jane persists, asking why Mr. Briggs would reach out to him with
matters relating to her and her uncle, and much to her surprise, St John reveals that
he is her half-cousin!
Jane laughs with disbelief.
All her life of having no family, and she has finally reunited with people that are
related to her!
She hugs St John warmly, and he tells her she is a very weird girl for not reacting
to the news of her fortune, but reacting to having family, something which he deems is
not so significant.
Jane talks with her half-cousins, and St John gives her books, telling her to learn a new
language.
Turns out, that St John wants to take her with him to travel.
He thinks she is up to the task because it is in her blood.
Traveling the world is her destiny he says!
They sit together as he discusses marriage with her, as it will be needed so that they
can travel together.
She asks why they cannot just travel as brother and sister.
St John expresses his fear over her getting hung up on Rochester, but Jane says that her
ex-lover was the first one to recognize her as her own separate entity.
She tells her half-cousin that she will travel with him only if she wants to, and leaves
the room with all her authority.
Jane wears her bonnet and cape and sits by the small waterfall, looking at the water,
but she hears someone call out to her in desperation.
Hearing Edward Rochester’s voice, Jane gets up in a frenzy and runs and runs, into a carriage
that leads her to Thornfield Hall!
She looks at the brooding building and smiles, walking up to it.
But as she notices the surroundings, the trees are withered, the building looks old and it
seems deserted.
She sits by the grass.
An old man approaches her and tells her what happened at the house, about a year ago.
Mr. Rochester had sent all the workers away so not many know what happened.
Turns out, Bertha lit a curtain on fire before dragging it throughout the house.
She herself would then walk up the roof and dance, and Rochester runs up, telling her
to get off the edge because it is dangerous.
But Bertha, who is crazy, stares at a white pigeon and tries to mimic it, and ends up
dying, as Edward watches.
After hearing the story, Jane walks back through the woods, to a smaller house, where she witnesses
Rochester come out through the front door.
Jane watches with a smile, expecting him to see her a bit further away, but he just rudely
shouts at who is there.
The smile is off her face when she realizes that he is walking with a cane; Edward Rochester
is blind!
He goes back inside the house, paving the way with a walking stick.
Inside, he sits by the fireplace with Pilot, his dog, and screams for a servant named George
to bring him water.
Jane Eyre walks with a glass, she lightly grabs his chin and makes him drink the water,
confusing the poor, blind man, because this is not the touch of his servant.
He asks who it is; and as soon as he hears Jane's voice, he grabs her hand.
His eyes well up with tears as he stands up, identifying Jane by her fingers, her lips,
and her face.
He runs his fingers all across her face and neck, hardly believing that it is his sweetheart
that has returned to him.
It is a heart-wrenching scene indeed as Rochester’s face fills with relief at the presence of
his lover.
He states that she is real, and she laughs a bit and then kisses him, asking if it feels
real to him.
She summarizes all that happened, her uncle left her 20,000 pounds but she gave it all
away.
They laugh at this, and he cries and smiles with relief.
He asks if she will stay with him, and she assures him that she will as long as she lives.
Sitting him down, she asks if he wants dinner, but he says he rarely eats now, but Jane says
they will have to eat, because she is hungry.
After dinner, she combs his hair in order to get his black grown-out hair under control.
And right as she is leaving, he asks if she has been staying with only women, or if there
have been men.
Jane simply smiles at this and walks away; as Edward hears her receding steps.
The next day, Jane and Edward sit by the river, and Edward enviously mentions St John, and
what kind of a man he is, and how close he was to Jane.
Jane teases her lover by talking well of St John, describing him as a handsome man who
taught her languages.
When asked why, she tells Edward that St John wanted her to go to Africa with him and offered
to marry her.
The jealous lover’s voice raises in disbelief and hushed anger as he tells Jane to go with
him, but as she says that she would pack her bags, he grabs her hand and tells her not
to.
That makes Jane tell Edward that she and St John do not love each other, and that he is
a cold man.
As it is getting cold, Jane tells him they should go inside, but he wants to sit out
here longer.
She talks of a villa Edward once mentioned, by the Mediterranean.
As the conversation goes quiet, Edward asks if Jane is still here, and after a pause,
she says she is.
He then continues to say that the plan he told her, that he would not force her into
marriage and then she would only have to live with him does not sound so pleasant anymore.
She asks if he does not want to be friends anymore, and he asks her to come to sit beside
him politely, and she does.
Once she is seated, Edward repeats three times that he wants a wife, and he wants someone
to share a bed with.
She brings her face closer to his, and holds him as she tells him that his life is not
only his, it is also hers.
Her warm gesture towards him makes him smile in a way he would not usually, but it is a
fact that Jane brings out the best in the brooding, serious man.
They lay down by the grass, with Jane on top of Edward Rochester, kissing him and giggling.
The next heartwarming scenes show Edward’s and Jane’s family, including Adele, Mrs.
Fairfax, Anna’s half cousins, and even their dog gathered around as they sit close to each
other to get their portrait made; something Jane always yearned forever since she was
a child!