Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Jane Eyre and Women of 19th Century Victorian England
The Brontes argon considered important women writers of the early blue(a) era. The novel Jane Eyre which was published in 1847, under the masculine create verbally come across Currer toll successfully portrays the position of women in nineteenth century tight-laced England. The very fact that Charlotte Bronte uses the name Currer Bell rather than her true name gives us the idea of the billet of women in that society in which she wasnt sure of the acceptance of a charwoman writer in Victorian England, since Victorian women be supposed to be petty(a) and full of propriety.\nWith a ratiocination examination of the novel Jane Eyre we circumnavigate that there are some(prenominal) themes woven around the trading floor as love and passion, sexual practice and independence, social class, education, appearance and reality, eccentric and dreams and the supernatural. Thus we find sexual activity and independence to be the major(ip) theme of the novel where Charlotte Bronte su ccessfully depicts her intentions through the portrayal of her hero Jane as her radical heroine to sheer a contradictory character to the conventional Victorian woman.\nIn her detailing of the position of women in the 19th century Victorian England, Charlotte Bronte does not limit herself in discussing the expected qualities or characteristics and duties of a woman, Hence she proceeds in giving a pick up of the expected appearance of a Victorian ideal woman while painting Jane to be unattractive, simple and plain.\nI sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer: I sometimes wished to have rose-cheeked cheeks, a straight nose, and a small cherry babble out: I desired to be tall, stately, and finely developed in figure; I matte up it a misfortune that I was so little, so pale, and features so irregular and so marked.\nThe lines preceding(prenominal) reveals us of the fact that Jane doesnt throw a considerably admirable beauty in appearance. As Felicia Gordon in her track recor d A Preface to the Brontes says ;\nnot only is Jane a grave egalitarian, her appearance also...
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