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the Victorian era, women were thought as inferior to an dependent being to a man. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, is a true portrayal of society’s attitude towards women in the Victorian age.The average Victorian woman was not granted with freedom. They were expected to marry and raise children. Women were discouraged for their fight of independence. In the novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte uses characterization to demonstrate the theme of independence and gender equality. One of the main…

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.…

human being with an independent will” – Jane Eyre. I think that Jane is an intelligent, simple, and honest girl who was forced to live through inequality, injustice, and humiliation. Jane Eyre is the protagonist of the novel “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë. She was an orphaned child. Throughout the years, she grows independent and strong. She receives cruel and unfair treatment from her Aunt Mrs. Reed. In her search of finding freedom, she meets Mr. Rochester, a wealthy, rude man who works at…

have delineated very prettily a graceful Apollo: he is present to your imagination-tall, fair, blue-eyed, and with a Grecian profile. Your eyes dwell on a Vulcan- a real blacksmith, brown, broad-shouldered; and blind and lame into the bargain.’” (422 Brontë) Mr. Rochester’s description of St. John as a “graceful Apollo” solidifies his stance regarding his Greek descriptions. His comparison to Apollo further distances himself from Mr. Rochester, as the blemish-free God of Music is nothing like…

relationships lack absolute boundaries hence they can be crossed. Bronte achieves this by making sure that Jane's social class drifts from low, middle to upper. Seemingly, Jane flexible and sophisticated social class makes it easy for her to evaluate other characters…

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle” (huffingtonpost.com). Anne Bronte’s novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall displays a strong sense of feminism throughout the novel. Bronte chooses to illustrate this sensitive topic through the protagonist of the novel, Helen Graham. Helen is a reclusive who is too individualistic for the time period she lives in. Because of this, she is shunned and viewed as an outcast for expressing her femininity. Helen challenges the role of women in…

Jane Eyre is a novel, written in the Victorian era by the author Charlotte Bronte. Bronte uses different setting in order to show what the characters are feeling, illustrates character development, and to foreshadow certain events that are going to occur. Jane Eyre makes particularly powerful and complex uses of setting, which it intertwines with plot, characterization, and, of course, symbolism and imagery. The setting of the story is carefully divided into five distinct places, each of which…

Jane Eyre is a timeless novel about an orphaned girl trying to move up in a male run, wealth based society. Women are severely oppressed in this society, and their identities are torn apart and remolded by men to their standards. Charlotte Bronte uses patterns of imagery and symbolism to express the emotions and hardships of women during this time. Two symbols commonly repeated in the novel are fire and ice, both as different as they are alike, extreme elements expressing the extreme emotions…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre is an inspiring novel written by Charlotte Bronte. Its value not only lies in its beautiful language, but also exists in the characteristics of Jane. Throughout the novel, Jane expresses Charlotte’s radical thoughts on gender, religion, and social class. In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte does not follow the Victorian tradition of ideal male heroes. Instead, she degrades her male character, and allows Jane to suppress the male hero in the story. It is…

Abandoned, abused, alone – three terrible words in today’s culture, especially when grouped together. In her classical novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte crafts a character that is all of these; however, Jane Eyre is able to overcome all the difficulties of her childhood. In her novel Jane Eyre, Bronte reveals that even when left abandoned, abused and alone, Jane Eyre was still able to find happiness in a life of her own. At a young age, Jane learns to find joy in the little moments of her life…