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Review of Jane Eyre Brief Introduction: Jane Eyre is a book which can be appreciated in different perspectives like autobiography,romance, and Gothic horror story as well as the Bildungsroman . At first.let me make a brief introduction in the first perpective.If you are familiar with the author Charlotte Bront?, you can find that there are so many autobiographic elements in the book. So we can say that the prototype of Jane Eyre actually is the author herself. Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), English writer noted for her novel Jane Eyre (1847), sister of Anne Bronte and Emily Bronte. The three sisters are almost as famous for their short, tragic lives as for their novels. In the past 40 years Charlotte Bront?s reputation has risen rapidly, and feminist criticism has done much to show that she was speaking up for oppressed women of every age. Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the north of England, the daughter of an Anglican clergyman who moved with his family to Haworth amid the Yorkshire moors in 1820. After their mother and two eldest children died, Charlotte was left with her sisters Emily and Anne and brother Branwell to the care of their father, and their strict, religious aunt, Elisabeth Branwell. Charlotte attended the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge in 1824. She returned home next year because of the harsh conditions. In 1831 she went to school at Roe Head, where she later worked as a teacher. However, she fell ill, suffered from melancholia, and gave up this post. Charlottes attempts to earn her living as a governess were hindered by her disabling shyness, her ignorance of normal children, and her yearning to be with her sisters. From the introduction you can find that it is very similar with the experience of Jane Eyre. Setting: Jane Eyre is critical of Victorian Englands strict social hierarchy. And the novel is structured around five separate locations,all supposedly in northern England: the Reed familys home at