Part 1
Ideology – In Victorian Studies, ideology is referred to as the extent to which what may look articulate and complete in review was actually fissured by opposing emphases and interests. The Victorian ideology is related with middle-class ideology, which is challenged and under construction as it was always in the making, open to reconstruction, disagreement and the emergence of oppositional inventions.
Class – Class emerges from the Victorian ideals of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Their ideals relate class to a group relation to the means of production. A group can consist of workers or owners and the share of wealth is created through labour. Although, it is clear that people are different in relation to wealth and power structures. …show more content…
Jane Eyre is a controversial book as it is critical in the manner in which it portrays the life and actions of the upper class and the way in which they treated those of lower classes. The two reviews criticise the novel as they are based on class and gender ideologies which Charlotte Bronte opposes in the text.
One can see by the title, “The Christian Remembrance”, that their publications were of a traditional nature. The review insults women by indicating that only a woman would lack sense to publish what she deems important as it would bring her little success. It continues to argue that the book was an emotional risk rather than a useful one. A quote to show this is “Who indeed but the woman could have venture, with the smallest prospect of success, to fill octavo volumes with the history of a woman’s heart. “The Quarterly Review” also provides an undermining outlook on women. Society viewed women as being unable to focus on more than one skill and having innate base abilities like jealously. This is proved by “No woman trusses game and garnishes with the same hands” and “Above all no women attires another in such fancy dresses as Jane’s ladies assume”. Both reviews reflect the paradigm of Victorian
Ideology – In Victorian Studies, ideology is referred to as the extent to which what may look articulate and complete in review was actually fissured by opposing emphases and interests. The Victorian ideology is related with middle-class ideology, which is challenged and under construction as it was always in the making, open to reconstruction, disagreement and the emergence of oppositional inventions.
Class – Class emerges from the Victorian ideals of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Their ideals relate class to a group relation to the means of production. A group can consist of workers or owners and the share of wealth is created through labour. Although, it is clear that people are different in relation to wealth and power structures. …show more content…
Jane Eyre is a controversial book as it is critical in the manner in which it portrays the life and actions of the upper class and the way in which they treated those of lower classes. The two reviews criticise the novel as they are based on class and gender ideologies which Charlotte Bronte opposes in the text.
One can see by the title, “The Christian Remembrance”, that their publications were of a traditional nature. The review insults women by indicating that only a woman would lack sense to publish what she deems important as it would bring her little success. It continues to argue that the book was an emotional risk rather than a useful one. A quote to show this is “Who indeed but the woman could have venture, with the smallest prospect of success, to fill octavo volumes with the history of a woman’s heart. “The Quarterly Review” also provides an undermining outlook on women. Society viewed women as being unable to focus on more than one skill and having innate base abilities like jealously. This is proved by “No woman trusses game and garnishes with the same hands” and “Above all no women attires another in such fancy dresses as Jane’s ladies assume”. Both reviews reflect the paradigm of Victorian