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 ...

• Word Count: 1259
• Approx Pages: 5

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