Category: Jane Eyre

Introduction Exploring the concepts and themes that contribute to the portrayal of females within literature is a highly relevant topic in todays critical climate. These concepts have historical and contemporary application that may help unveil and discuss female portrayals in literature, and thus are worthy of investigation. Charlotte Brontes classical novel Jane Eyre (1847) is…

In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte gives her audience a detailed account of the significance of social class hierarchy and class consciousness during the nineteenth century in Victoria England as well as the impact they played specifically in the life of the main character Jane Eyre a lost soul, searching to find her true…

In the Victorian period, the view on women was around an image of women as both inferior and superior to men. They did not have legal rights, could not vote and had to pay for the labor force after the Revolution. Women have to do their inner space, clean their homes, eat their homes and…

It is safe to say that despite fleeting moments of humour, Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre (1848) is not a funny book. Nonetheless, the low, slow ha! ha! of Bertha Rochester is a prevalent refrain that has received wide-ranging critical attention. The examination of laughter beyond Berthas celebrated utterances has, however, been neglected. Laughter itself is…