Jane Eyre #11: Major Conflicts

Major conflicts of a story can very well lead up to the story's climax. Or a major conflicts can be the climax itself. In Jane Eyre there were many conflicts that the main character Jane ran into. Starting off the novel, the author Charlotte Bronte has Jane living with her aunt, Mrs. Reed. This is a conflict because Mrs. Reed is evil and very cruel to Jane. Jane cannot wait to get out of that house, and she is actually thrilled when she finds out she is being sent off to school. Everything goes well at Lowood school, and later on Jane becomes a teacher there. After two years at the school Jane accepts a job also teaching at a manor called Thornfield. This is where Jane runs into another conflict. While teaching at Thornfield, Jane falls secretly in love with her employer, Rochester. This is a conflict because Jane knows that Rochester would never marry her because of her social class. And then Rochester brings home a woman named Blanche that everyone thinks he will propose to. Surprisingly enough, Rochester instead proposes to Jane. Shocked, Jane said yes not knowing about Rochester's little secret. He is married to a woman that had gone mad. This is the biggest conflict of all. Jane does not know how to deal with this so she just runs away and does not marry Rochester. A few years later Jane hears that his wife had died in a fire she made. So Jane rushed to see him and they then got married. Throughout the book Jane faced many conflicts. But because of her independence and strength she overcame them and in the end everyone was happy.