The novel contains the social criticism of sexuality, religion and feminist, which considered to be ahead of its time. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys has written a prequel to Jane Eyre. ... Both novels focus on the feminist issue in different ways; Rhys portrays Antoinette's struggle for identity within herself under patriarchal society, making her constrained and dies at the end. ... This is a very different kind of feminism from Jane Eyre. ... Antoinette thinks that sex can develop over time into love, but Rochester does not think it would work. ...

• Word Count: 4886
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is a feminist bildungsroman set in the early 1800s. ... In Jane Eyre, Jane refuses to accept the conventions of the Victorian woman and makes a name for herself by her own means-through fiction. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Bronte uses Jane as a figure of strength and op-position in order to criticize the social prejudice that women of the Victorian era. ... " Bronte originally published Jane Eyre, under the pen name Currer Bell. ... Although the work was primarily about life as a governess, the novel explores the different social classes and ...

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Like Charles Dickens's 'David Copperfield, 'Jane Eyre' is a bildungsroman, a novel in which the protagonist must undergo a form of spiritual education, to overcome the obstacles they face throughout their lives. In this novel, Jane must overcome her fiery passions that are physically manifested by Jane's 'alter ego' Bertha Mason. ... Jane Eyre is impulsive and outspoken, this becomes apparent when she recognises that she is a "rebel slave" representing her physical need to stand up for herself and her principles as she believes that "million...

• Word Count: 893
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

When I was deciding what kind of approach I should use for the novel of Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, I was reading the author's CV and I was surprised that she published her novel just as some of her other works under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Was it because she wasn't sure of the success which had avoided her till that time, or was it because in her novel Jane Eyre she opened the 13th chamber in question about status of women in society in the beginning of the 19th century? ... " (141) I as a reader perceive Jane as very strong personality venerating feminist ideals wh...

• Word Count: 975
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Every character has a flaw; Lady Macbeth and Jane Eyre are no exceptions. ... Lady Macbeth would influence Jane Eyre to fight her suppression as a female, and also to use her power of femininity. ... Jane is already an early form of a feminist. ... Through this Lady Macbeth would further influence Jane's feminist qualities. ... The author of Jane Eyre wanted to show that female character's can be the emotional equivalence of a male. ...

• Word Count: 1235
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Jane Eyre is in some ways the epitome of the plain, powerful voice Charlotte strove to lend a platform to. ... It is important to remember that when Charlotte set out to write Jane Eyre, she was faced with infinite contingencies that would dictate the shape of the novel and the way it ran. ... By requesting she join him in the West Indies as a missionary wife, he views her as capable and apt of a man's work. ... As a book that safely passes the Bechdel test, the feminine gusto of Jane Eyre may have aged with time, but it remains to pack a punch in light of the era of its publication. ... ...

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

All three chosen texts explore these relationships differently; Jane Eyre's close friendship with Helen, Jeanette's amorous tryst with Melanie and the apparent hatred between Tamora and Lavinia. ... There is no conclusive ending like in Jane Eyre when she becomes married and lives 'happily ever after' so to speak. ... Her mother even reverts to saying Jeanette is 'no daughter of [hers]' This is reminiscent of Jane Eyre as Jane's relationship with her aunt is very similar. ... Indeed, the full title of the book is "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" an...

• Word Count: 3018
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

INTRODUCTION The main aim of this research is to trace 19th century British writer Emily Bronte's feminist notions in her novel Wuthering Heights. ... Jane Eyre's 'Reader, I married him' close to the end of Charlotte Bronte's novel (1847) that bears the character's name, shows the reversal of roles and the decision-making capacities that the new generation of socially aware women could demonstrate. ... Charlotte and Emily Bronte are in may ways both opposites to Jane Austine. ... Although there are some features of Romanticism in Jane Austen's novels, her w...

• Word Count: 5526
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On the one hand, they were phenomenally energetic, dedicated to the Gospel of Work and driven by a solemn sense of duty to the Public Good. ... Their literature conveys an uneasy sense that their obsession with work was in part a deliberate distraction, as if Victorians were discharging public responsibilities in order to ease nagging doubts about their religious faith, about changing gender roles, about the moral quandaries of class privilege and imperial rule. ...

• Word Count: 6746
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