Jane Eyre Research Paper

Parts of Charlotte Bronte’s life reflects the life of her most well known protagonist, Jane Eyre. Their strikingly similar childhood has much to do with not only reason for the development of Jane Eyre as a dynamic character, but also the entire plot of the novel. The death of Bronte’s mother; even at such a young age, had a drastic effect on her life. Her mother's dead lead to her father's push for a strong education, inevitably leading to her career in english literature and writing. After Maria Bronte’s sudden death; her husband and father of the Bronte sisters, made the decision to have their very strict and somewhat “old fashioned” aunt permanently move into the family household to keep the children accountable as well as to be their main female figure. …show more content…
The Bronte family; thought not being part of a high tiered family, were very well educated for their time. Majority of the sisters attended an all girls school called the School for Daughters of the Clergy. Experiencing a strict education at an all girls boarding school, was the main influence for a large setting within the novel Jane Eyre, for the main reason that their overall experience at this school was traumatizing, and left lasting effects on not only Charlotte, but all sisters. While attended the School for Daughters of the Clergy, Maria and Elizabeth Bronte the older of the Bronte daughters developed symptoms of Tuberculosis due to the severe lack of hygiene and overall care of the school and the girls attending. The death of Bronte’s older sisters, had a long lasting effect on her life, that bleed into a substantial character of Jane