Category: Jane Eyre

The Victorian period was known for its strictly defined values and highly regulated culture. Charlotte Brontes biographically-styled narrative uses the novel form and characterisation of Jane Eyre to critique these intense values. This process compelled individuals to reassess their perspectives of the Victorian era and adjust their views on society. Bronte is challenging these realities…

Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre is considered complex. In her journey, the main character Jane Eyre comes across many women characters, which a significant number of them can be seen as doubles for her. Those women had the impact to make us realize things about Jane that she did not notice about herself. The most…

Exploring Female Oppression in Patriarchal Societies There are evident intertextual links between Brontës Jane Eyre and Du Mauriers Rebecca particularly in their presentation of female oppression within patriarchal societies. Both authors use first-person narration to convey internal conflict, and couple this with the external conflict explored through the themes of class and gender. Whilst Du…

Charlotte Brontë and Daphne Du Maurier represent society and class systems within both Rebecca and Jane Eyre. Brontë gives us insight into a society overwhelmed by the patriarchal class structure and skillfully unravels the bildungsroman of Jane Eyre, who started as an orphan but quickly intermingled with stereotypical female roles within the 19th century. On…

Middle class women were brought up to be pure and innocent, tender and sexually undemanding, submissive and obedient to fit the glorified angel in the House (Thackerays The Angel in the House). Women were not expected to express opinions of their own outside a very limited range of subjects, and certainly not be on a…

In Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre encounters three different figures in her life: Mr. Brocklehurst, Helen Burns, and St. John. They represent their own established versions of religion that builds upon the foundation of her faith to God. These versions are presented in order to contrast the opinions of Jane which play a central…

In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte focuses on how women try to unravel their mind from the social conventions that they must live with day by day. Gilman and Bronte analyze how women is forcefully living in a haunted atmosphere and tries to slowly move away by…

Section A: In this section I will be analysing Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, It is a prequel to English novelist Charlotte Brontës most prominent novel, Jane Eyre. This extract takes place in the latter half of the postcolonial novel, part three in section seven. In this essay, I am going to make a…

Introduction Exploring the concepts and themes that contribute to the portrayal of females within literature is a highly relevant topic in todays critical climate. These concepts have historical and contemporary application that may help unveil and discuss female portrayals in literature, and thus are worthy of investigation. Charlotte Brontes classical novel Jane Eyre (1847) is…

In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte gives her audience a detailed account of the significance of social class hierarchy and class consciousness during the nineteenth century in Victoria England as well as the impact they played specifically in the life of the main character Jane Eyre a lost soul, searching to find her true…