The story is largely presented by way of flashbacks. The script by Moira Buffini appeared on the 2008 Brit List, a film-industry-compiled list of the best unproduced screenplays in British film. The film was produced by Alison Owen's company Ruby Films, with financial support from BBC Films, Focus Features and Lipsynch Productions.
Valentina Cervi as Bertha Antoinetta Mason. 
Michael Fassbender as Edward Fairfax Rochester. Jane visits Rochester, now blind, and the two are reunited. Fairfax that Bertha set fire to the house Rochester was able to rescue everyone but his wife. Jane returns to Thornfield to find the house a blackened ruin. John asks Jane to marry him, but she rejects him. John and his sisters, and the four live together at Moor House. Jane offers to share her inheritance with St. John with news that her uncle John has died and left her his fortune of £20,000 (equivalent to £1,800,000 in 2019). One night, she imagines a knock at her door to be Rochester, but instead finds St. John gives Jane a teaching position and a cottage. Jane, wounded at his deception, leaves Thornfield.Īfter her recovery at Moor House, St. Rochester explains that he was made to marry Bertha for her money, but she rapidly descended into madness and he locked her away rather than subject her to an asylum she was responsible for the strange happenings in the house. Rochester admits the truth and takes Jane to meet his violently deranged wife, kept in a hidden room at Thornfield. At their wedding, Mason appears with a lawyer and reveals that Rochester is already married to Mason's sister, Bertha. Rochester declares that Jane is his only love and proposes she accepts. Jane forgives her aunt and returns to Thornfield, beginning a correspondence with John.įaced with Rochester's impending marriage to Blanche, Jane tells Rochester she will leave Thornfield and confesses her true feelings for him. Reed admits to writing to John to the effect that Jane had died at Lowood. Jane returns to her dying aunt, who gives her a letter from Jane's paternal uncle, John Eyre, asking that Jane live with him in Madeira as his heir. Jane receives word that her cousin John has committed suicide, leading her aunt to suffer a stroke. Rochester confides in Jane, cryptically, that he is haunted by a past mistake but has fallen for a new woman in his life Jane believes he means Blanche. Jane notices a hidden door in Rochester's room before Mason is taken away by a doctor. Rochester reassures the guests, but brings Jane to tend to Mason, who has been badly injured. That night, the household is awakened by a scream. Rochester confronts Jane, who is hurt by Blanche's presence, but is interrupted by an unexpected guest – Richard Mason from Spanish Town, Jamaica, whose arrival disturbs Rochester. Fairfax tells Jane is Rochester's prospective wife she and her family return with him a few weeks later on a grand visit to Thornfield. 
The next day, Rochester leaves suddenly to call on Blanche Ingram, who Mrs. One night, Jane discovers Rochester's room on fire, which they manage to extinguish he warns her not to speak of the incident, and they share a chaste but passionate moment. He grudgingly praises her instruction of Adèle, and her own "openess and unpolluted mind ” the two find themselves curiously attracted to one another. Returning to Thornfield, she learns the man is Edward Rochester, master of the house. One day, Jane sees a rider thrown by his horse and comes to his aid. Fairfax, Jane begins a plain and isolated life as governess to Adèle Varens, the young French ward of Thornfield's owner. Brocklehurst, the girls are beaten, but Jane befriends fellow pupil Helen Burns, who dies of consumption.Įight years later, Jane, now 18, leaves Lowood for a position at Thornfield Hall. Jane is sent to the Lowood School for Girls under the strict Mr.
An orphan, she is treated cruelly by her cousin John and aunt Mrs. The film flashes between Jane's recovery and her grim childhood. John Rivers and his sisters Diana and Mary they take Jane in and nurse her back to health. She collapses at the doorstep of Moor House, home of St. A tearful Jane Eyre runs away from Thornfield Hall, finding herself alone on the moors.
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