... thing for her, "I resisted all the way: a new thing for me," Rather than being seen and not heard, as was the convention for Victorian children, Jane is heard, as she is outspoken about how cruel John is ("Wicked and cruel boy!") and she is not seen as she hides away in the window seat. ... Although parts of Chapter 2 suggest that Jane has low self-esteem, Chapter 1 seems to suggest that she must have some respect for herself because she cannot bear to be classed as a parasite by John ... ." These two chapters show the extent to which Jane is mistreated in full gory detail. Most shocking...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... exterior, suppressing the creative, emotional, and spiritual self. Such suppression had dangerous consequences an unhappy, unfulfilled life. Charlotte Brontë wrote that imagination was a restless faculty which needed to be heard and exercised. "Are we to be quite deaf to her cry and insensate to her struggles?" Assuming this, is Blanche not just a female who refuses to suppress her true emotions ... of will, proving that a woman of the Victorian era inevitably required a man to get by in life. I object to this view. Soon after leaving Thornfield, Jane is confronted by St. John Rivers, ...

• Word Count: 2473
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate