'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte and 'Bridget Jones's Diary' by Helen Fielding are excellent novels, which explore the complexities of human nature and provide an insight into the social conventions of each era.

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'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte and 'Bridget Jones's Diary' by Helen Fielding are excellent novels, which explore the complexities of human nature and provide an insight into the social conventions of each era.

Written in the nineteenth century and set in rural England, "Jane Eyre" was written by Charlotte Bronte who was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816. An adventurous romantic novel it was written in the 1847. Although at the time it was considered to be an inappropriate book for Ladies or children, as it would encourage women to leave the husbands trying to become independent. It would also encourage the children {mainly girls} to think they do not need a man to assist their every need, making them to become an independent woman.

"Jane Eyre" is the story of a woman who is orphaned at a young age and is being raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel, wealthy aunt. She who is ill-treated first by her aunt's and cousins. Jane is then sent to a dreadful school, Lowood which is a orphan school which is funded by charity. An orphan school in the 19th century would be tatty and not in proper conditions for any child to be in. Most children in the 19th century who went to orphan school came out if lucky either very ill or died while in the school. Jane experiences a death while at school one of close friends die.

She then later on falls in love and is about to marry when it appears that the man she is to wed is already married and his wife lives in the same house with her. In despair she flees in which she finds her cousins and also inherits a large sum of money, which leaves her financially independent. Then she decides to go back to Rochester who has a terrible and dreadful experienced and is now blind because of a fire at his home. "Jane Eyre" immediately falls in love with him again and soon marries him.
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In sharp contrast 'Bridget Jones's diary' is a twentieth century novel set in the modern day society.

Helen Fielding wrote 'Bridget Jones's diary' she was born in Yorkshire.

This is a novel of the everyday problems women in the early thirties experience whether they are obsessed with there weight, smoking, drinking, not having a boyfriend, family problems, money and work. A newspaper had claimed Helen Fielding as 'She's funny, she's smart, and she's entirely unconsumed by her sudden fame'. "Bridget Jones" was inspired by "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen." Which carries the same story ...

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