Governess

‘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…

even though it led to his tragic death.” The old innkeeper remorsefully explained. ‘There were also rumours that on his deathbed the poor master, who was in and out of consciousness from the extreme injuries; was calling out the name of the young governess he fell in love with - Jane I believe was the name.’ I straighten my posture from hearing this new information: His last words were my name? Even at death’s doors Mr Rochester seeked my presence; more tears gradually gushed like a…

her experience to write about the contempt and rejection women will feel when having to work as a woman's companion, the rigid restrictions put upon socially acceptable work for women of all classes, and the difficulties of being a teacher or a governess. Wollstonecraft turns such situations into a trope for a woman's "struggle with the world," a pattern that continues in all her work. Like most radical thinkers in the enlightenment period, Wollstonecraft is demanding a change in society to…

European philosophers as early as the seventeenth century begin debating how to run government. As different forms of democracy come about, wars breakout amongst European nations. Ideas on human nature and how man runs government spread throughout the world, determining for years the ways of society. The first philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, promotes the strict monarchy of commonwealth, the second, John Locke, promotes the liberal monarchy, and the last, Jean-Jacques Rousseau promotes liberal…

In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the protagonist’s life is a struggle; sometimes Jane has to lose something in order to gain something else. As the room shifts, “obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there,” the reader can see a representation of Jane’s internal struggle between good and evil shown through light and dark. Jane follows Mr. Rochester to the third floor of Thornfield, after Mr. Rochester asks if she is still awake. Unaware of the situation into which she is…

Vera Claythorne is considered to be the one person on the island with the most guilt, but who is Vera? Vera Claythorne was a governess, looking after a little boy named Cyril Hamilton. Vera became infatuated with Cyril's uncle, Hugo. However, there was a huge marriage barrier in their way which was money. Hugo confessed to Vera that he didn't have enough money to get married and support a family. For several days Cyril had questioned Vera about swimming out to the island, and she finally thought…

journey’s in life. Class, wealth and influence were of great significance, Jane Fairfax who ironically is highly educated, sophisticated, lacks money and property consequently hides her secret engagement with Frank Churchill. According to Jane Fairfax, ‘governess trade’ resembled the slave trade. The use of hyperbole, initiates the perceptions of women. The vulgar Mrs Elton who is comically thought of as a ‘conceited social climber’ begins to think much of her own importance. Her marriage with…

1.1 Social Stratification In general, social class can be defined as “a division of society based on social and economic status” The placement of people in a particular group depends on the income, power, prestige and educational background. However, in Victorian England it was not completely determined by the amount of money people owned, it depended to some extent on the source of the income, on the birth and the family connections. Most people knew and tolerated their place in the social…

his view on several things like faith and need of a companion. He has been attending schools throughout his childhood and adolescence years. He informally learns from home when he is young from the relatives that surrounded the house. Dante, his governess, “knows a lot of things. She had taught him where the Mozambique Channel was and what was the longest river in America and what was the name of the highest mountain in the moon” (7). For little Stephen, geography is so mesmerizing because it is…

4.1. Blanche Ingram According to Heiniger Blanche can be seen as Jane’s foil, since she embodies the perfect “nineteenth-century Angel – an unrealistic male-created ideal” (24). She satis-fies Coventry Patmore’s expectations in regard to appearance: “Men must be pleased.” And her outstanding beauty, described by Mrs. Fairfax, obviously would make her the dream girl of many men: She is “tall”, has a “long graceful neck” and “noble features” “fine hair” and the “glossiest curls” (Brontë 185) Her…