Charlotte Brontë

free 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…

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…

SOCIAL CLASS STATUS IN JANE EYRE Charlotte Bronte's novel by the name Jane Eyre is set in Victorian England, a place that social class played a huge factor in life as well as in society. Therefore, the novel plays a critical role in exploring the Victorian England strict hierarchy. Of importance, is that through Jane the main protagonist in the novel, Charlotte attempts to show that social class relationships lack absolute boundaries hence they can be crossed. Bronte achieves this by making sure…

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre was published in 1847, and although it was written over 150 years ago, it still continues to be an important piece of literature. Bronte does an excellent job displaying how Jane Eyre develops as a character. Throughout Jane’s development one thing never changes, and that is her strong sense of justice. One example of how Jane Eyre displays an extreme sense of justice is with Mrs. Reed, her malicious aunt. Jane lives with Mrs. Reed throughout the first ten years…

walkthrough for ten-year-old Jane Eyre. When her parents became ill from the sickness and passed one month after the other, the young girl became a burden upon her aunt, Mrs. Reed, who treated her worse than a servant. Jane Eyre was authored by Charlotte Bronte who often wrote under the pseudonym of Currer Bell. This novel was written in nineteenth century and many events throughout the book can be seen to reflect the society of the 1800s. The quick ways of society judging a lower class…

How does Jane Eyre compare to Bertha Mason and why is that significant? It is undeniably blatant that Jane Eyre, the eponymous character of Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre and the secondary character of Bertha Mason evince several parallels between them, which is something that arguably affects and steers the plot of the novel. Although seemingly diametrically opposed to one another as much in behavioral traits as in physical appearance, these two figures seem to have a temporal,…

obsession can trap a woman in a net and distort who she really is. Obsessed people pursue their own fulfillment by distorting the personhood of those they claim to love. This is learned from two highly regarded works of literature: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In both Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby, Mr. Rochester and Gatsby distort the personhood of the women they love, by wanting the women to change themselves for them. The way the women react to…

‘Jane Eyre’ is a Victorian novel written by Charlotte Brontë under the pseudonym Currer Bell. It was a very controversial novel, due to its heroine, who took her life in her own hands and wanted to have an education, to be superior, to tranced her condition and the condition of the women in her era. Charlotte Brontë created a bildungsroman which shows the path of a woman, started as a child until she reaches maturity and gets married. Her way till her marriage is as follows: First of all, the…

through adherence to the word of God as delivered through the Bible (Schumacher, 1). This movement was a major issue to Charlotte Bronte because though the belief system “encompassed both a soul and a body,” it “repudiated both a pietism that denied the importance of the physical and societal and a moralism” (Schlossberg, 1). In the novel, Jane Eyre, the author, Charlotte Bronte provides religious figures of Evangelicalism as a way to express her disapproval of the movement. Throughout Jane…

In Charlotte Bronte’s gothic fiction Jane Eyre, a young woman challenges authority, faces adversity which she overcomes, and is determined to marry not for others, but for love. Growing up with her Aunt and cousins, Jane learned quickly to gain a voice with which she could defend herself. Jane and Mrs. Reed’s relationship are described discourteously. Jane is aware of her Aunt’s feelings towards her, as she admits to knowing, “‘My uncle Reed is in heaven, and can see all you do and think; and so…