Social Rules In Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

Throughout the novel, Jane Eyre composed by Charlotte Bronte, the main protagonist, Jane Eyre, did not strive to abide the social “rules” set in her time period. Taking place back in the nineteenth century, one can imagine how absurd the social standards are. In this time, people were told that if they would happen to go anywhere but up in status, that they would be disowned or looked down upon. The biggest three rules that Jane Broke through the novel include her looks and possessions not affecting her status, the fact that Jane did not marry within the social class in which she was born into, and finally Jane did not stay in the social status she was born into.
In this time period, the majority of people belonging to the higher social class …show more content…
. . . You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. I shall remember how you thrust me back . . . into the red-room. . . . And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me—knocked me down for nothing,’“(Bronte 43). People describe Jane’s characteristics multiple times, looking anything except beautiful. Her unappealing characteristics attract Rochester. Rochester, Jane’s employer and future husband, says that her face is not the most attractive face in the world, but that her personality gives her so much character that he loves that ends up making him fall for her. Jane describes Rochester as basically a dream Husband, “I naturally believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purser tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or destiny encouraged. I thought these were excellent materials in him,” (Bronte 167). Since Jane didn’t have much, money, or anything in general, very few men want to marry her due to the standards of this …show more content…
What Jane accomplished was not common considering what you had and what you looked like determined status, most people stayed in the class they were born into, and finally that most people married in their own social class. Jane really never gets attached to materialistic things such as money and possessions. Instead she shows how anyone does not need wealth to end up on top. Jane also showed how anyone can grasp control of their life and make whatever out of it, in this case she changed her social status completely from the former one she is born into. Back then, one thing uncommonly known event included two people of different classes getting married. Families mainly wanted their families’ wealth to rise to make them more powerful. Jane, born in a poor status, and Rochester, born in a highly wealthy family, represent the perfect couple for this scenario. The key theme for this novel contains the fact to not judge a book by its cover. For the pages inside can hold a vast amount of motivation, selflessness, and