A Comparative Analysis of Different Passages

"Jane Eyre" is set during the Victorian period, at a time where a women's role in society was restrictive and repressive and class differences distinct. A job as a governess was one of the only few respectable positions available to the educated but impoverished single women.

James’ novella centers around a young governess who is in charge of watching her employer’s kids at an estate in Bly. The governess’ social standing and desire to keep her job reveal the instability of jobs for women in this era. Her employer, the uncle of Miles and Flora, is a typical wealthy

Jane Fairfax plays a significant role as a rival towards Emma in terms of intelligence and beauty in the novel Emma by Jane Austen. Jane Fairfax is born to Mrs. Bates youngest daughter and Lieut. Fairfax. Jane’s father Lieut. Fairfax died and Jane was left with a widow mother who

I love the passages of comfort because its telling you where you can look on the bible vesicle’s that will help you manage any situation you might be going thru at the moment. Not only sad or bad situations but happy and thankful emotions you might be experiencing at the time. Having God as our main priority in our life it’s a blessing because when we follow his path things will fall into place. At least for me that’s how it works.

The general arguments made by Todd Leopold and Doug Gross is that cell phones are a big part in the lives of people today. More specifically Leopold argues that cellphones are taking people’s imagination and creativity away. Leopold writes in this passage “ If you want to get any creativity thinking done, shut off the damned smart phone and detach, reflect and recharge.” In this passage, Leopold is suggesting that in order for people to think for themselves they have to let go off their phones and detach themselves from any technology.. A point made by author Doug Gross suggest cell phone use in today’s society is an addition. More specifically, Gross shares a study from an anthropology professor at the University of Alabama, that says just

Throughout the Victorian era, a woman’s sole purpose was to marry, produce children, keep the house clean and have dinner on the table by the time their husband returned from work. They were restricted to working tedious jobs at minimum wage until they were married and were not allowed to receive a real education. Once married, a woman was expected to become a fulltime mother and house wife tending to the needs in the home on command. All these lovely skills were that of the traditional Victorian women. They were pressured to express their femininity through their dainty attire, gentle mothering, social order and expressing the manners and obedience that was expected of them. All in all it was required that they be as little of an

The role of women in government exists on a painful pendulum. Even in post-modern culture, women receive derision for their involvement, however, one election in the year 1784 marks for the first time England’s need for forced acknowledgment of power in the female voice. History recalls the reactions as vindictive and abusive; however, for the people alive, it only equaled satire of male opponents. Georgiana, the fifth Duchess of Devonshire, gathered literary and political figures to meet at her Chatsworth home and Devonshire house, and influence them enough to break through as propaganda manager, fete ruler, and even created a speech affectation that plagued each member. However, she did not stop there; Georgiana, her sister, and various other

In the two given passages, the authors used evidence to support their purpose. In passage number two, the author supported his purpose furthermore successfully in terms of supporting with evidence and style. It says in passage two, “They should be placed where they will be safe.” This was his

Resistance is the action of fighting back against an unwanted force that may be deemed oppressive in ones life. It is created for different causes and comes in many forms; it may be made verbal, explicit, implicit, physical, and even made humorous or satirical. Charlotte Brontë, a 19th century Victorian

Women’s Roles in the Victorian Era: The ideal woman in Victorian Times epitomized the good and virtuous woman whose live revolved around the domestic sphere of the family and home. She was pious, respectable and busy with no time for idle leisure. Her diligent and evident constant devotion to her husband, as well as to her God. She accepted her place in the sexual hierarchy. Her role was that of a domestic manager: wives and mothers. By the time that the industrial era was well under way in Britain, the ideology that committed the private sphere to the woman and the public sphere of business, commerce, and politics to the man had been widely dispersed. Women had to fight for an education equal to that of men, many struggled for suitable,

Femininity runs throughout the work of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. A variety of figures illustrate behaviors that Jane observes growing up. There are a number of positive role models that portray how to be a woman not just in the 19th century but in modern-day time. On the flip side there are role models that exemplify socially and morally unacceptable traits. Jane is a growing embodiment of both the good and bad mystique. But is there a right way to be a woman? The good of one person reflects on the rest of the population. What more for a woman to act one way and have it represent the rest of her kind? During Jane’s childhood, Mrs. Reed and Ms. Temple establish two distinct platforms of femininity. One platform values the virtues of compassion

The governess’ ambition, however, isn’t her only reason for wanting to please her employer. Multiple critics have specifically mentioned her fascination with her employer in a romantic way. James describes him as a “ rich...extravagant,” man who is “charming” with women, and the governess as a “fluttered” and “anxious girl” (James 149).

The Victorian Era was known for its propriety, and for its social standards that could be as strict as the caste system in India. Citizens in England of low social regard faced many prejudices and limitations that could be almost insurmountable to overcome. Much like the caste system, people considered

Jane’s foster family, the Reeds, restrict her rights, refusing to treat her as an equal to the other members of the family. Jane, at a mere eight years old, is chastised by Mrs. Abbott, the nanny, who asserts, “you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep” (Bronte 11). When Rochester imprisons Antoinette in England, he deprives her of any sense of humanity. The people in their lives who yielded power over them unjustly repressed both women.

James’ novella centers around a young governess who is in charge of watching her employer’s kids. The governess’ social standing and desire to keep her job reveal the instability of jobs for women in this era. Her employer, the uncle of Miles and Flora, is a typical wealthy landowner who has “ his own town residence...but it [is] to his country home” that the governess is sent to work (James 149). It is important to note that it is perhaps the governess’ first job (Pouquette 257) and that she is still young and inexperienced (Chase 261). During the 1850’s, middle-class women were “expected to fulfill their traditional role of bearing and raising children” and that for unmarried women, serving in someone else’s home was also “acceptable” (“The Turn of the Screw” 255). The social difference between the governess and her employer and the lack of communication between the two seems to add to her desire to maintain a good relationship with him. The employer has one rule of not being bothered with what goes on in the house and when the