This essay explores the function of setting in Jane Eyre, arguing how Bronte used the setting to reflect how women can go beyond the limitations of their gender, and social class and find fulfilment. To deliberate these points in detail, the settings at Gateshead, and Thornfield will be closely assessed. In addition, it will consider how the Gothic imagination of the protagonist emphasised the feminist issues of the era, to reflect that it was not necessary for a woman to feel trapped within a patriarchal
in different ways throughout the history of feminist criticism. In his essay, ‘Reading as a Woman’ (1982), Jonathan Culler notes the various ways of reading that feminist critics have undertaken in order to ‘read as a woman’, particularly in what he calls the “hypothesis of the female reader”. The postulate of a female reader that feminist criticism undertakes, according to Culler,
Gender pay gap is a statistic data reflecting the difference between women and men’s median earnings. It shows the unfairness in the economy between women and men. Scholars from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Australia have said that this inequality is affected by lots of interrelated factors in society, family and work. The inequality shows from lower hourly wage, fewer hours in unpaid jobs and lower employment rates in women. Thus, this essay will first discuss the cause of the average full-time
42). Bert Bender, who stresses Chopin's keen interest in Darwin's theories, reads the unusual reference to Edna's teeth as an echo of Darwin's observations about the canine tooth in human beings. Bender states in his essay “ The Teeth of Desire, The Awakening and The Descent of Man (Reader, P.486-496) that the canine tooth “no longer serves man as a special weapon for tearing his enemies or prey,” but he “reveal [s], by sneering, the line of his descent. For though he