TV Guide: Jane Eyre

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Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0500

After a wretched childhood as an orphan and two years of being a teacher, Jane Eyre yearns for new experiences. She accepts a governess position at Thornfield Manor, where she tutors a lively French girl named Ad le. She soon finds herself falling in love with the brooding owner of Thornfield, the dark and impassioned Mr. Rochester. Jane gradually wins his heart but they must first overcome the dark secrets of his past before they can find happiness as man and wife. When Jane saves Rochester from a fire, which he claims was started by a drunken servant, she begins to suspect that she has not been told the whole story. Her fears are confirmed when Rochester?s secret past is revealed, forcing Jane to flee Thornfield. Penniless and hungry, she finds shelter and friendship in the shape of a kind clergyman and his family. She is soon shocked to uncover the hidden truth of her own past, which ...

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Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Jane receives a visit from Bessie, the maid at the Reed house. She brings bad tidings: Mrs. Reed is dying and asking for Jane. As Jane drives away, she sees Rochester and Blanche out riding together and worries what might happen in her absence. Jane returns to Gateshead Hall, the scene of her childhood misery. Mrs. Reed is on her deathbed, following her son John's excessive debauchery and subsequent death. Her cousins, Eliza and Georgiana, treat Jane with great condescension. Georgiana has become extremely vain, whilst Eliza claims she will wash her hands of Georgiana after her mother's funeral and spend the rest of her life in a convent. Mrs. Reed raves in her delirium about Jane Eyre being a nightmare child. But in a more lucid moment, her true feeling of guilt about Jane becomes far clearer. Three years earlier, Mrs. Reed received a letter from Jane's uncle, John Eyre.

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Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500

The school is freezing; the conditions unbearably austere. Jane hates her time there, particularly the attempts by Brocklehurst to kill her spirit and individuality. However, Jane makes a close friend in a fellow pupil called Helen Burns who advises her not to attempt to run away but to work hard and improve herself through education. That way, she will one day fulfill her dream of escape. Unfortunately, Helen is not so lucky and dies in Jane's arms from cold and illness.

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Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500

On a walk across the moors, Jane meets the beautiful, wealthy Rosamond Oliver. She is clearly in love with St. John, and he with her. However, St. John's icy will presents an obstacle to marriage. He forces himself to subordinate his passions to his religious calling to serve as a missionary. By contrast, Diana and Mary declare it a crime to deny love. Soon, at a visit to Morton church, Jane pushes back memories of her failed wedding. She accepts an offer from St. John to become mistress of a new school for poor girls of the parish. Having decided to stay, Jane's memories come flooding back; after the wedding, Rochester passionately begged her to stay, claiming them to be true soulmates. Jane was unable to deny her equally overpowering love, but remained adamant she would leave. Next morning, she did just that. She crept out of Thornfield at dawn, and got on a coach across the country.

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Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Jane wanders the moors, penniless and starving. Utterly exhausted, she lies down in a final act of surrender to the elements. But she is brought back from the brink by a faint light in the distance, growing closer. The lantern belongs to the clergyman St. John Rivers, who rescues Jane. Together with his sisters, Diana and Mary, St. John nurses her back to health. The family is poor, but intelligent and spirited. Jane forcefully represses all memories of Rochester's desperate attempts to make her stay, and resolves to begin a new life.

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Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Rochester returns with a house party. The guests cover a cross-section of high-society, among them the Ingram family, including the opinionated, aristocratic Lady Ingram and her striking daughter Blanche. Soon it's the understanding of the entire household (not least Lady Ingram) that Blanche is the perfect match for Rochester. Despite Jane's obvious discomfort at the patronizing treatment she receives, Rochester insists that she attend the evening soir?es at every opportunity. One evening, Rochester asks Jane if she thinks he should fulfill the gossips' predictions and propose. In Jane's opinion, is he in love with Blanche? Jane counters that she knows nothing of love. But any hopes she might once have had for herself are now truly crushed. Later, the mood of the party darkens as Rochester suggests playing some dangerous games.

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