Bronte's Presentation of Jane and Rochester's Relationship Essay

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    Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been a widely discussed and analyzed work of Victorian literature since its publication in 1847. High school students to highly-educated scholars have read and interpreted the immeasurable breadth of this novel’s effect on society. This bildungsroman work has been analyzed through a multitude of literary lenses, each lens giving readers a different view on the plot, as well as Brontë’s motivations behind her writing. One such lens is the Socio-Historic Critical

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    Charlotte Bronte's character Mr. Rochester is clearly an unusual love interest for a romantic novel. He has an abrupt, selfish and arrogant nature, and is far from handsome. Mr. Rochester is stern, rude, and demanding and has a dark and somewhat mysterious personality. However, with the gothic atmosphere of Jane Eyre, it seems almost suiting for the hero to embody many such attributes of a Byronic hero One of the most prominent literary character types of the Romantic period, the Byronic hero is

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    Jane Eyre Research Paper

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    The Journey of Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre is a Gothic romance and Bildungsroman set in the early decades of the nineteenth century in northern England. The novel introduces the social class, gender relations, and love within the time period. Jane Eyre specifically shines light on the idea of passion versus reason. The novel is written in Jane’s perspective.Throughout the entirety of the novel, Jane experiences challenges which test her as a person. Jane Eyre is a feminist

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    Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre entails a social criticism of the oppressive social ideas and practices of nineteenth-century Victorian society. The presentation of male and female relationships emphases men’s domination and perceived superiority over women. Jane Eyre is a reflection of Brontë’s own observation on gender roles of the Victorian era, from the vantage point of her position as governess much like Jane’s. Margaret Atwood’s novel was written during a period of conservative revival in the

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    initial presentation of Jane Eyre, Brontë uses first person narration to introduce Jane to the reader, “What does Bessie say I have done, I asked”. Brontë may have decided to use first person narration to make the reader look at the world through Jane Eyre’s eyes which gives a voice to a young child which in the Victorian era children were seldom given a voice. Brontë created Jane at the bottom of society; a female orphan at a half charity school. It is apparent as soon as the reader meets Jane Eyre

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    protagonist and her husband as the narrator is immediately dismissed of importance - she is worth so little that it is laughable. The clear divide between genders signifies an inevitable entrapment in order for John to maintain control of their relationship. Likewise, the narrator’s expectation of this in marriage reinforces the preconceived conventions of the protagonist, and audience, that are formed by society of the necessity that a wife is subservient to her husband. Furthermore, the narrator

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    Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” has captivated readers for generations. As with all coming of age novels, young adults can relate to the struggles and triumphs of Jane. Jane’s setting influences and parallel her emotions. A reader can see the novel through her eyes and perspective. In Bronte’s “Jane Eyre,” the location often parallels Jane’s emotional growth through the tone presented by the environment, resulting in the different places she lives revealing her journey through depression. Jane’s behavioral

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    Published exactly one hundred years before India’s independence, Charlotte Bronte’s JANE EYRE (1847), which highlights the search for freedom of its eponymous heroine Jane on the one hand while showing the stifling /of the same/ that of the ‘barbarous’ anti-heroine Bertha Mason on the other, created a storm in the Victorian literary scene when it first appeared in 1847. Hailed unanimously by both critics and general readers alike, Jane Eyre was regarded as “an extraordinary book”, “unlike all that we have

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    Feminism In Jane Eyre

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    in her best-selling novel Jane Eyre in which she discusses the social background of the Victorian society and its effect on women. What society teaches women is not always right; it is up to women to rely on their moral senses to take the proper path for their actions. During the Victorian era, a woman’s life revolved around domestic duties, form a young age they are taught to be submissive and obedient. They had no rights and were expected to

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