‘Jane Eyre’ is a first-person narrative, related in the voice of the protagonist, or heroine." Jane is the ‘I’ of the story, the person whose voice is heard during the reading, therefore everything that happens is seen from her point of view. In general, the first point of view has advantages because the readers hear only one-side opinions; the person who is telling the story is involved in all the incidents.
“(...) in that attitude his shape was seen plainly
as well as his face; his unusual breadth of chest,
disproportionate almost to his length of limb.
I am sure most people would have thought him an ugly man;
yet there was so much unconscious pride in his port; (...)”
Its drawbacks are that the story is limited to what narrator saw or heard and to the narrator’s interpretation of the other characters. Ja
ne sees all action and characters through Charlotte Bronte eyes. Even in the situation when she is only a passive recipient of information from other characters, we never forget what Jane is feeling. A good example is Rochester’s story about short and difficult life with his mad wife:
Despite his narration and his own feelings of remorse, we are more absorbed in Jane’s reactions to the necessary end of relationship. In other words, Mr. Rochester’s story is really important at this point only so far as it deals with Jane. The reader feels no shock when Jane instead of worrying about his excesses, says to his protestation of remorse over past dissipation:
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