Jane Eyre Research Paper

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Jane Eyre from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre lived in the wrong time period. The qualities of women in the Victorian Era were “to be innocent, virtuous, biddable, dutiful and be ignorant of intellectual opinion” (Thomas). “Women were shy, weak and emotional compared to men. She was supposed to be pure and quiet” (Joshi). Men were seen as superior in Jane’s era. “It was the responsibility of the women to secure happiness at home whereas the men were to protect and guard the household and its members” (Joshi). Jane rebelled against nearly all of these roles, mainly rebelling against men.
Since a young age Jane had gone against the gender roles. At age 10, Jane lived with her cousin John Reed; he bullied her often. One day, she struck back,