Explore some of the Aspects of Victorian Society which are depicted in Jane Eyre, Showing how Charlotte Bront expresses her opinion of them.

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Jane Eyre

By Charlotte Brontë

Explore some of the Aspects of Victorian Society which are depicted in Jane Eyre, Showing how Charlotte Brontë expresses her opinion of them.

        

Charlotte Brontë wrote this book in Victorian times. The book is written in the first person and she does this so that you can relate to Jane Eyre and so you can really feel the way she is feeling in the book. We can tell from this book that she doesn’t come over as a saintly person and she’s not perfect as she was rebellious when she was a child. So you really do sympathise. Brontë really tries to put across some of the aspects of life from in Victorian times. The position of women, the social class, and religion are main features in this book. We can see Brontë has some strong opinions.

Charlotte Brontë shows how she disagrees with women being told to dress up, for men; we see this when Mr. Rochester wants to take her shopping and she expresses her opinion of not wanting to be dressed up by him we see this when she says:

‘I don’t like to hear them spoken of. Jewels for Jane Eyre sounds unnatural and strange: I would rather not have them.’

She is telling Mr. Rochester that she does not want jewels because they don’t mean much to her. In chapter twenty four when Mr. Rochester takes her shopping short after becoming engaged to each other, she feels uneasy with the attempts to shower her with extravagant gifts. She doesn’t want her relationship with Mr. Rochester to be changed into a ‘Society Match.’

We see Jane standing up to Mr. Rochester despite the love she has for him. When she is going to marry Mr. Rochester he tries to buy her lots of present’s like bangles and she replies with

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‘I can never bear being dressed like a doll.’

She feels if she is bought all these things she will be restricted and imprisoned and she does not want to feel like this. Mr. Rochester says

‘I would not exchange a young English girl’

He is trying to give her a compliment by referring to the eastern tradition which is that he would just have her over lots of women, but this comment makes her feel as though she is his possession. We can see that Jane Eyre doesn’t have a love for money. We can see this ...

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