Essays on Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is a coming of age novel in which we are exposed to the protagonist Jane and her struggles, hardships and successes. We follow her through her personal journey as she develops and matures into a young lady. Bronte’s novel can be…

 The declaration of the ladylike character is the other face of the coin of manliness. The idea of manliness can’t be achieved without the learning of gentility. Charlotte Bronte remakes manliness as well as she recreates the idea of gentility too. Both Rochester and Jane…

Charlotte Bronte draws on the gothic features of isolation, the supernatural, death and romance. Those features create a sense of mystery and rowse continuous questions flowing through the novel. The isolation of characters corresponds to their internal loneliness and their social status, that in the…

Hailed as a feminist novel, Jane Eyre represents the Victorian female struggle for independence and autonomy. A bildungsroman, Bronte skilfully brings to light the oppression and inequality facing women in the 19th century, inspiring feminists and writers alike including the Creole writer Jean Rhys; author…

I have read the following three novels: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. These books appealed to me as they represent a realistic image of love and romance in showing that life is…

Through the use of a nineteenth-century gothic setting in Ferndean, the author, Charlotte Bronte, uses literacy techniques and loves to develop the narrative voice of Jane as an independent and passionate young woman. The first time Jane lays eyes on Ferndean Mansion she feels it…

Both Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre are stories that tackle the dilemma of Victorian society’s power struggles, the issues with discrimination and the hardships of class mobility. Many parallels can be drawn between the two eponymous characters. They are both born orphans and spend the…

Victorian Rebel Brönte Charlotte Brönte, was a female Victorian Author who is best known for her book Jane Eyre. Her writings perceived her to be a feminist during the Victorian Era. She did not believe in the traditional roles of women and children in the…

Application of Foster to Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby Reading literature like a professor requires being able to decipher both the obvious and inconspicuous aspects of a story. Every detail of an author’s writing is intentional and each angle of the story is integral…

Commentary on “Emma” by Jane Austen and “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë, comparing the ways in which both passages introduce possible suitors In both “Emma” and “Jane Eyre”, we are told a story of two female characters who are dealing with the prospect of being…

The bildungsroman Jane Eyre details the maturation both psychologically and morally of a girl in Victorian era Britain. Morally, Jane evolves from being vengeful and angry to being balanced and moral. Moreover, In the beginning of the novel Jane Eyre is kept in the lowest…

A literary hero is often defined as “a character in a literary work, especially the leading male/female character, who is especially virtuous, usually larger than life, sometimes almost godlike” (W.W. Norton). These characters also often embody the ideals their culture. In the mid-nineteenth century, a…