great it must have a theme that makes reading it worth while. In Jane Eyre, the main character tells her life story and the struggle of choosing between your head and your heart. The emotion portrayed by Jane in a first person point of view not only makes the reader feel more directly involved in the novel, but it also provides an emotional setting that may resemble feelings the reader has in real life. The emotion and realism portrayed in Jane Eyre is what accomplishes the theme of coming of age and
Madness is freedom from patriarchy” Discuss this interpretation in light of the presentation of female imprisonment in The Yellow Wallpaper and Jane Eyre. Women in 19th century literature were typically characterised stereotypical, as “angels” or as “monsters” by the majority of writers who were typically men. However the minority of writers who were women would not identify themselves with those archetypes. These archetypes are exaggerated and artificial “her battle, however, is not against her
Charlotte Bronte published Jane Eyre in 1847, a novel that follows an orphaned Jane and her endeavors throughout the early years of her life. Bronte introduces specific social structure criticisms including sexism and feminism, independence, and orphan life regarding the time period in which the novel was written. Specific social criticisms discussed in Bronte’s work allow it to have stood the test of time, as high school students nationwide continue to read this fine work. Similarly, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s