Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte's beloved novel, is the story of the eponymous Jane Eyre and her struggles and successes in nineteenth-century rural England. We meet Jane as a young girl and watch her navigate through the harshness of Lowood to the passions of Thornfield Hall to Moor House and back to Rochester in Ferndean again. While the brunt of the plot seems to revolve around Jane's love for Rochester and their struggle to develop...
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte's beloved novel, is the story of the eponymous Jane Eyre and her struggles and successes in nineteenth-century rural England. We meet Jane as a young girl and watch her navigate through the harshness of Lowood to the passions of Thornfield Hall to Moor House and back to Rochester in Ferndean again. While the brunt of the plot seems to revolve around Jane's love for Rochester and their struggle to develop a relationship, beyond the love story, there lies the true point of Bronte's novel: the journey to self-actualization of Jane Eyre. She must learn to be seen as a woman of full intellect and power and must learn to see herself as such. This is a story of independence and struggle and ultimate success in finding such independence.
While no one knows specifically why Charlotte Bronte wrote her novel, she seems to have wanted to voice her frustration about the inequality she saw between men and women. Choosing to publish under the gender neutral name of Currer Bell, and having a female character traverse and ultimately find her identity and independence, Bronte appears to have wanted to show the world that women could have the same intellect, the same passions as men.
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