Mood board and story of my chosen character

JANE EYRE BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE (1847)

Mood board

After reading the book and watching the 2011 BBC adaptation, I made an idea about how my character could look like. As it seems in the pictures, the look is quite pale, simple, but perfectly represents the Victorian period. I chose these pictures, because I want my character to look normal, as she is described in the book. I could've chosen to do Edward Rochester's wife, which was a scary psycho, but she wasn't even described that much. I chose these pictures for my mood board because people can clearly see Jane's makeup and hairstyle. Some of them are from the BBC adaptation, and the others are from Pinterest, where the style is adapted for the modern one. 

The plot and the description of the chosen character

I chose this book, because I was captivated by Jane's story, by the fact that she has been through a tough childhood, because she was an orphan, but also by the romance between her and Edward Rochester. 

However, 'Jane Eyre' is not a pure romance novel. Despite its complexity, though, the heart and soul of 'Jane Eyre' is the passionate love between Jane and her employer, Edward Rochester, and it is their love story that is the most memorable element of the novel. Jane Eyre is a fantastic character. Independent, honest, blunt and dignified. She was an intelligent, honest young girl forced to contend with oppression, inequality and hardship. Her strong belief in gender and social equality challenges the Victorian prejudices against women and the poor. When she is old enough to go to school, Jane goes to Lowood, where the living conditions are horrible. Jane survives there, but loses her best friends, Helen Burns who died from an epidemic. When the conditions at Lowood improve, Jane stays on as a teacher until she is 18, and then accepts a position as the governess to Adele Varens, the ward of the master of Thornfield Hall, Edward Rochester. 

Jane Eyre is famous for being a plain looking girl, rather than a beauty, and because of that, I've noticed the unfortunate and unfair consequences of her plainness: the servants find it difficult to sympathize with her because she's not cute and sweet and blue-eyed and curly-haired. She was passionate, and one of the strongest women characters in fiction and by sticking to her principles, she was rewarded with true love.