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    Bronte creates Jane Eyre as the autobiographical heroine of this novel. She depicts the character of an orphan who is raised by her cruel, wealthy aunt Mrs. Reed, accompanied by her three nasty children. The only person with a wet heart at her place was Bessie, the servant who provides Jane with some kindness. Jane was punished very often, being accused for being rude to her cousins. A night spent in the Red Room, in which Mr. Reed had died, is explained as the most horrifying punishment Jane had to face

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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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    colonialist] assumptions, subverting the text for post-colonial purposes’. (Tiffin, 1987) Such a revolutionary literary project is evidently realised in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, a prequel that ‘writes back the centre’ of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Rhys is categorical about her conscious authorial intention: ‘I immediately thought I'd write a

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    Tremendous spirit. The enviable trait that Jane Eyre from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre possesses is what stimulates her to achieve self-actualization despite the fact that she is a woman. True feminism isn’t as violent as a handful of vicious extremists claim it to be. The accurate definition of feminism is “the doctrine advocating women’s social, political, civil, educational and all other rights as equal to those of men.” Women of Charlotte Bronte’s era did not have basic rights such as the aforementioned

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    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë has the title character and protagonist Jane lead a moral life in which she affects each person she interacts with. Included in this group of changed people is the one she falls in love with: Edward Rochester. At first Jane believes him to be “...proud, sardonic, harsh, unjust, and moody” (Brontë 153). By the end however, Jane tells the reader that all “my confidence is bestowed on him [Rochester], all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character—perfect

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    In “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte, Jane finds herself loved by two different men, with two different intentions, and two different personalities. On one hand is Edward Rochester, who inherited a large fortune from his father. He was burned by past relationships before he met Jane. St. John Rivers, a minister from Morton, is cold and reserved. In many ways he serves as a FOIL character to Rochester. The latter part of the novel deals with Jane’s struggle to choose between the two men, where she ultimately

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    love is universal. Love is an emotional necessity that even Jane, from Charlotte Bronte’s book Jane Eyre, cannot ignore. Throughout the story line, Jane is constantly searching to find love. She was looking, not just for the love of a man, but for the love of a family. However, Jane’s search for love sometimes ends up challenging her autonomy. While Jane is longing for love, she is not willing to give up her independence for it. Yet as Jane becomes older and her independence grows, she realizes that

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    century Victorian feminist wrote her novel Jane Eyre as a means of exposing the confining environments, shameful lack of education, and pitiful dependence upon male relatives for survival (Brackett, 2000). Charlotte Brontë used literature as a means of feminist cultural resistance by identifying the underlying factors of how the Victorian ideologies, gender and social construction of that time was limiting, and brings to light barriers that faced women in

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    Bird Imagery in Jane Eyre

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    In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte uses many types of imagery to provide understanding of the characters and also to express reoccurring themes in the novel. Through bird imagery specifically, we are able to see Jane develop from a small, unhappy child into a mature and satisfied young woman. "The familiarity and transcendence of birds have given them a wider range of meaning and symbol in literature than any other animal. The resemblance of their activities to common patterns of human behavior makes

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    To contain a life, or even some fraction of it, in a single book is certainly a tall order among tall orders. But Jane Erye is so thoroughly and immersively suffused with the minutest realities of adolescence and early adulthood that I can’t help but see every life in it. The eponymous heroine’s story is mine, yours, his, hers, theirs, anyone’s, everyone’s. Analyzing the novel via Virginia Woolf’s literary catechism, however, yields something of an oddity. For all its banal but tangible plausibility

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