After the publication of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte gained lots of attention from the book around the Victorian Era. The people in the Victorian Era had different views on what they thought about the book depending mostly on their social class. Bronte’s criticism in Jane Eyre of class and gender was not very effective in changing the way the Victorian Society functioned, but rather it was effective in making society think about the different portrayal of the upper class in the Victorian Era, and the idea of a different perspective viewing the society.
During the Victorian Era most stories did not talk about a different perspective of society other than the wealthy classes. Bronte’s revolutionary book of writing a story about a low class woman …show more content…
For Rigby, a wealthy upper class woman, who had written a review of Jane Eyre after it was published, disliked the book because of Bronte’s choice of writing the book from the lower class perspective, and how Bronte portrays the upper class as a cruel group of people. The Reeds are an example in the story who at started off in the book taking care of Jane though treating her badly. However, Bronte seems to have written the book for the sole purpose as a Marxist Critic to where she wanted to focuses on the class differences in the Victorian Society to give an interest into the lives of the lower class people who did not receive much attention during the Victorian Era. As being an upper class woman Rigby says, “She is one of those ladies …show more content…
Taking into account of Jane’s actions in the mere beginnings of the book, Rigby looks down upon how Bronte writes Jane’s actions by saying, “The little Jane, with her sharp eyes and dogmatic speeches, is a being you neither could fondle nor love” (Rigby). She says this because she believes that the book is un-lady like by using her point of view of what lady-like would be in the Victorian Era. The usual Victorian Era women in Rigby’s eyes would have been woman who read and studied plus did not fight back to anything but went along. Bronte had made Jane a un-lady like character who is aggressive and fights back to those who don’t treat Jane nicely. It seems, however, that in a difference sense, Bronte was taking a Feminist Critic viewpoint for seeking to undermine the social and psychological oppressions of women plus the patriarchy economically and socially. Bronte did not just want to have the focus of having a stereotypical upper class woman’s standards played in the book. Bring the part of the wealthy part of society it is inevitable that Rigby had some form of religion that made believe that, “[n]o Christian grace is perceptible upon [Jane Eyre].... inherit[ing] in fullest measure the worst sin of
During the Victorian Era most stories did not talk about a different perspective of society other than the wealthy classes. Bronte’s revolutionary book of writing a story about a low class woman …show more content…
For Rigby, a wealthy upper class woman, who had written a review of Jane Eyre after it was published, disliked the book because of Bronte’s choice of writing the book from the lower class perspective, and how Bronte portrays the upper class as a cruel group of people. The Reeds are an example in the story who at started off in the book taking care of Jane though treating her badly. However, Bronte seems to have written the book for the sole purpose as a Marxist Critic to where she wanted to focuses on the class differences in the Victorian Society to give an interest into the lives of the lower class people who did not receive much attention during the Victorian Era. As being an upper class woman Rigby says, “She is one of those ladies …show more content…
Taking into account of Jane’s actions in the mere beginnings of the book, Rigby looks down upon how Bronte writes Jane’s actions by saying, “The little Jane, with her sharp eyes and dogmatic speeches, is a being you neither could fondle nor love” (Rigby). She says this because she believes that the book is un-lady like by using her point of view of what lady-like would be in the Victorian Era. The usual Victorian Era women in Rigby’s eyes would have been woman who read and studied plus did not fight back to anything but went along. Bronte had made Jane a un-lady like character who is aggressive and fights back to those who don’t treat Jane nicely. It seems, however, that in a difference sense, Bronte was taking a Feminist Critic viewpoint for seeking to undermine the social and psychological oppressions of women plus the patriarchy economically and socially. Bronte did not just want to have the focus of having a stereotypical upper class woman’s standards played in the book. Bring the part of the wealthy part of society it is inevitable that Rigby had some form of religion that made believe that, “[n]o Christian grace is perceptible upon [Jane Eyre].... inherit[ing] in fullest measure the worst sin of