The novel Jane Eyre was a very controversial book during it's time. During the eighteen hundreds women were oppressed heavily. This book told the story of a woman and the thoughts that she had. Many of these thoughts and ideas weren't accepted by the majority of the population. Jane Eyre is the personification of independence. Back in those days society did not accept independent woman. A woman was defined by a man and her own thoughts and ideas were not even taken into account. The book describes a woman's struggle to find love and contement through her mind. The way she does this is best described by G.H. Lewes who said," Almost all that we require in a novelist she has: perception of character, and power of delineating it; picturesqueness; passion; and knowledge of life" (Lewes, 44). The novel Jane Eyre is a well written novel that demonstrates the way an independent woman should live and love.
The novel begins with Jane as a young girl. She is oppressed because she is a girl for one thing, and that she has no parents. The only reason she isn't sent to an orphanage is because the widow made a promise to her husband who loved Jane. Even though they reject her for her social status.
In the end Jane marries Rochester and becomes blissfully happy. This comes about because she remained a moral independent woman through out her life. The same is true for her belief that mental refinement overcomes physical impressions. Jane remained true to herself and to the beliefs that she knew were right. One of the main points in the book is to be independent and true to ones self. The story gives the reader courage to do so with the promise of true happiness to those who do so.
Jane eventually gets what she wishes for which is deliverance from the Reed house. Her new home becomes the Lowood school for girls. This part of the book is well written in relationship to human emotion. In a sense this part is an autobiography of Charlotte Bronte because she draws realness from her own actual experiences. " The writer is evidently painting by words a picture that she has in her mind, not "making-up" from vague remembrances, and with the consecrated phrases of "poetical prose"" (Lewes, 44).
Her first job after Lowood is at Thornfield manor as a governess, about the only job an educated woman could get back then. Almost instantly she falls in love with her employer Rochester. She does so because of her admiration of his intellect and because of the feeling of simpatico
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