Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
Look at the pictures and try to recognize the writer and the novel.
So, the writer is Charlotte Brontё and the novel is her most famous one – Jane Eyre.

Цель урока
We will discuss the classical English literature
Задачи урока
To know some facts from Charlotte Brontё’s life.
To learn some characters from Charlotte Brontё’s novel Jane Eyre.
To use the new words from Charlotte Brontё’s novel in your own speech.
Цели и задачи

We’ll discuss the classical English literature
We’ll know some facts from Charlotte Brontё’s life.
We’ll learn some characters from Charlotte Brontё’s novel Jane Eyre.
We can use the new words from Charlotte Brontё’s novel in your own speech.
We’ll watch the film and discuss
Узнаем, научимся, сможем

The early sequences, in which Jane is sent to Lowood, a harsh boarding school, are derived from the author's own experiences. Helen Burns's death from tuberculosis (referred to as consumption) recalls the deaths of Charlotte Brontë's sisters, Elizabeth and Maria, who died of the disease in childhood as a result of the conditions at their school, the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge, near Tunstall, Lancashire. Mr. Brocklehurst is based on Rev. William Carus Wilson (1791–1859), the Evangelical minister who ran the school. Additionally, John Reed's decline into alcoholism and dissolution recalls the life of Charlotte's brother Branwell, who became an opium and alcohol addict in the years preceding his death. Finally, like Jane, Charlotte became a governess. These facts were revealed to the public in The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) by Charlotte's friend and fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell.

The Gothic manor of Thornfield Hall was probably inspired by North Lees Hall, near Hathersage in the Peak District. This was visited by Charlotte Brontë and her friend Ellen Nussey in the summer of 1845, and is described by the latter in a letter dated 22 July 1845. It was the residence of the Eyre family, and its first owner, Agnes Ashurst, was reputedly confined as a lunatic in a padded second floor room.It has been suggested that the Wycoller Hall in Lancashire, close to Haworth, provided the setting for Ferndean Manor to which Mr. Rochester retreats after the fire at Thornfield: there are similarities between the owner of Ferndean—Mr. Rochester's father—and Henry Cunliffe, who inherited Wycoller in the 1770s and lived there until his death in 1818; one of Cunliffe's relatives was named Elizabeth Eyre (née Cunliffe).The sequence in which Mr. Rochester's wife sets fire to the bed curtains was prepared in an August 1830 homemade publication of Brontë's The Young Men's Magazine, Number 2.Charlotte Brontë began composing Jane Eyre in Manchester, and she likely envisioned Manchester Cathedral churchyard as the burial place for Jane's parents and Manchester as the birthplace of Jane herself.

Matching pictures and words.
Name the books of each writer and click on the pictures to check your answers.

Ernest Hemingway
William Shakespeare
Charlotte Brontё
Arthur Conan Doyle

Let's watch the movie
Enjoy the film
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