Included in this page, is a breifing of each character of the book.  The character name that are underlined are links for other pages that dedicated to information soley on that main character.

• Jane Eyre
• Edward Rochester

• St. John Rivers- John Rivers is a clergyman, an ordained Christian minister, who first brings Jane in to his and his sisters' home when she passes out on their door step. He is a quite man who provides Jane with a job as a teacher at a charity school house. St. John Rivers receives the news that Jane's uncle that has left her 20,000 pounds and was the one to tell her. The Riverses, John, Diana, and Mary, are soon found to be Jane's first cousins. When John wishes to leave Moor House to be a missionary in India, he asks Jane to marry him. She refuses and he goes to India alone.

•  Diana and Mary Rivers- These are the sisters of St. John rivers. They become close friends with Jane during her stay and they become closer after the reveal that they are  her cousins. They are both intelligent and beautiful women that influence Jane. After their father died they were forced to be governesses until Jane shares her fortune.

• Mrs. Reed- After Jane's caring uncle died she was left in care of her harsh aunt. She treats Jane cruelly and punishes her for anything that her children accuse her of. She tells Jane, on her death bed, that she has hated Jane forever and always will.

• Georgina Reed- Mrs. Reed's beautiful daughter, who is self involved and selfish. Georgina treats Jane badly as a child but when they reunite as adults she tries to befriend and confide in her. After her mother's death she marries a rich man.

• Eliza Reed- Eliza is also one of Mrs. Reed's daughters. Unlike her sister she is plain and quite. She likes her days in order and filled with productivity. When Eliza becomes an adult she goes to the convent and becomes a nun.

• John Reed- As a child John was horrible to Jane, teachers, maids, and anyone who would interfere  with his demands. He beat on Jane for her entire life until she went to Lowood. He was never punished by his mother or anyone else. When he hit Jane she would get in trouble. One day after he had hit her, Jane punched him in the nose. She was put in the Red Room, which was said to be haunted by her uncle's ghost. She thought she saw a a spirit, and fainted. This is what led to her being sent to Lowood School. As an adult he spent his family's money on drinking and gambling. He eventually committed suicide because his mother refused to pay his debts.

• Mr. Brocklehurst- Mr. Brochlehurst is a cruel and hypocritical person. He is the main benefactor of the school. On one of his visits he brings attention to Jane by telling everyone in the school, that Mrs. Reed told him that she is a liar and a horrible child. He instructed all the students and teachers not to talk to her and to keep her ostracized. Soon after that he sees a girl with beautiful curls and instructs that they be cut because he said that it would encourage vanity, a sin in his eyes. He taught the "fire and brimstone" way although he would steal money from the school to support his own extravagant lifestyle.

• Bessie Lee- Bessie worked for the Reeds and was the only source of kindness for Jane as a child. She sang and read to her. Later she married the Reeds' coachman.

• Miss Scatcherd- Miss Scatcherd is a vicious teacher at Lowood. She treats Helen, Jane's close friend, very cruelly.

• Mr. Lloyd- Mr. Lloyd is the apothecary for the Reed family servants. He was always kind to Jane, and suggests that she should go to school. After Jane was sent to Lowood, he sent a letter to Miss Temple explaining that Jane did had a harsh childhood and proved what she said was true.

• Helen Burns- Helen was Jane's close friend at Lowood. She always took her wrongful punishments quietly and dignified. The first winter Jane was a Lowood a disease plagued the school. Helen fell victim to the sickness and died in Jane's arms.

• Maria Temple- Maria Temple was one of Jane's teachers at Lowood. She treats Helen and Jane kindly and was one of Jane's positive role models. Miss temple also helps clear Jane's name of being a liar and a bad child.

• Bertha Mason- Bertha was Mr. Rochester's first wife. Mr. Rochester was fooled into marrying her at a young age in Jamaica. His father and brother wanted the money that her family had and tricked him into marring her. Soon after, she becomes mad, like the rest of her family. Edward Rochester keeps her hidden on the third story of Thornfield Hall, where she is watched after by Grace Poole. She is the source of the loud laugh that often occors at night. Her laughing is blamed on her caretaker, Grace Poole, to keep Bertha a secret. Bertha was the cause for the fire at the beginning of the story and for the final fire that destroyed Thornfield, and killed her.

• Richard Mason- Richard is Betha's brother. He comes to Thornfield and his sister attacks him, Jane still doesn't know about Bertha at this point. Jane was told to accompany him and towel up his blood. Mr. Rochester demanded that they not speak to one another while he was gone, in fear that he would reveal the secret about Bertha being in the house. After he heard of Jane and Mr. Rochester's marriage, he comes with Mr. Briggs to stop the wedding and to inform everyone of Mr. Rochester's first wife.

• Grace Poole- Grace was a strange employee of Thornfield Hall. She takes care of Bertha and tries to keep her hidden. Although she is a good caretaker, she drinks. That is the reason that on rare occasions, Bertha would get loose and roam the house causing chaos.

• Celine Varens- Celine was a French opera dancer that Mr. Rochester fell in love with. He discovers her cheating on him and that she only wants him for his money. After this discovery, he leaves her. She is Adele Varens's mother. She runs away to Italy with an anonymous man and abandoned little Adele.

• Adele Varens- After Mr. Rochester's affair with Celine Varens, he was informed that she had had a child and had run away to Italy. Although Edward Rochester doughted that Adele was his, he made his way to bring her with him back to Thornfield. Adele looks nor acts anything like Mr. Rochester and that only supports his theory. Jane was Adele's governess. Adele spoke only French and Jane was one of the only ones able to understand her, except Mr. Rochester and her nurse. 

• Sophie- Sophie is Adele's nurse that accompanied her from France.

• Alice Fairfax- Mrs. Fairfax answers Jane's advertisement for a governess. She is very kind and cordial to Jane. Mrs. Fairfax works for Mr. Rochester at Thornfield Hall. She explains to Jane that the loud startling laugh is Grace Pooles, a lie that Mr. Rochester often repeats, himself. 

• Mr. Briggs- He was John Eyre, Jane's deceased uncle's, attorney and helps Richard Mason stop Jane's and Edward's wedding. She also finds Jane when her uncle leaves her a large sum of money.

• Blanche Ingram- Blanche was beautiful and talented. Jane thought Mr. Rochester would propose to Blanche but he was only using her to make Jane jealous. She despises Jane and only wants Edward Rochester for his money.

• Rosamond Oliver- She is a kindhearted daughter of a wealthy and influential man in the town where the Rivers live. Her father gives much money to the school where Jane teaches. She falls in love with St. John Rivers but they never wed.

• Uncle Reed- Uncle Reed is Jane's mother's brother. He was a good man and loved his sister dearly. After his sister and her husband died he took Jane lovingly into his home. Mrs. Reed hated Jane because he would spend more attention and time on Jane than his own children. Before his death he told his wife, Mrs. Reed, that she must always take care of Jane and treat her as their own child.