The novel has an angry tone to it, almost as if Brontë had realized the roles and circumstances of women around her and depicted it in Jane Eyre: imprisonment, orphan, starvation, anger turned to madness. According to Elizabeth Rigby, Jane Eyre revolves around the personification of an unregenerate and undisciplined spirit; she also calls the readers’ attention to the fact that Jane Eyre is apparently anti-Christian, Chartism and rebellion taking its place.
It has been generally seen as a gothic piece, with the scowling Byronic hero, the trembling heroin and the …show more content…
And as promised, Rhys makes even Grace more human to the reader than Brontë did, in the original, even gives the reader a way to compare Grace Poole to Antoinette and ho both feel about the mansion where they are and the convent where Antoinette was sent …show more content…
As soon as he accomplishes it he sends a letter to Mr. Rochester, severing all the ties with his family, letting him know that maybe marrying Antoinette was not such a bad deal and that Mr. Rochester only had to worry about his older son, the son he loved most:
I have a modest competence now. I will never be a disgrace to you or to mu dear brother, the son you love. No begging letters, no mean requests. None of the furtive shabby maneuvers of a younger son. I have sold my soul or you have sold it, and after all is it such a bad bargain? The girl is thought to be beautiful, she is beautiful… (pp.