Jane Eyre

                 Before writing this assignment I am going to write about the novelist who possibly has written one of the best novels I have ever read. The novelist who wrote Jane Eyre is called Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte was born In Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816. She was the third child to have been born by her parents Maria and Patrick Bronte.

                Mrs.Bronte died in the year of 1821 so Charlotte and her fours sisters and her Brother Branwell were left in the loving care of their aunt Elizabeth Branwell- Charlotte and her sisters were sent to a school of Daughters Of The Clergy. Between 1831 to 1832 Charlotte was at Miss.Woolers school at Roehead where she did later return as a teacher in 1835.

              In 1847 she published Jane Eyre. This became a success so she later published three over novels “Shirley”, “Villette” and “Professor”. The Bronte sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne all created brave and indomitable heroines: Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Emily’s fiery Catherine Earnshaw of the famous book Withering heights and Anne’s Helen Graham who was in the Tenant of Wildfell Hall left her drunken and brutal husband- perhaps partly based on their brother Branwell taking her son with her and earning a living as an artist, and audacious action in the masculine dominated world of Victorian Society. To have their books published they had to adopt male pseudonyms. By the names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.

               Jane Eyre is a novel which examines and challenges Victorian values and attitudes towards women I agree with this statement entirely as in the book men e.g. Rochester treats the women as nothing. This is expected in the Victorian society, Bronte’s novel makes people see and feel in her book that women in those times had no rights to vote etc... and that they were beneath men. I could picture this with a clear source of imagery.

             Jane has to deal with a lot of issues with her job as being a governess as Mr.Rochester is a very macho person and Jane has to answers all his frequently asked questions she believes herself to be his equal in life which is differs for a Victorian age.

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              Jane does state a variety of quotes and it really gives me a clear insight into her job as being a governess. Her character is individual and different and that what make her stand out from the crowd. “you think because I am plain that I have no soul but I do have soul and it’s equal to yours” is a particular quote that she states which shows she sees herself to be Rochester’s equal, Jane always stand up for herself and she follows her own rule that she has womanly rights to ...

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