Search For Identity In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

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Search for identity in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
Abstract
Charlotte Bronte owes her reputation chiefly to Jane Eyre (1847) and of all the Bronte novels, the obsessional element is the strongest in Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre had something remarkable in it the titanic struggle of the individual against the forces of depersonalising the individual. Her vigour and aspirations lend to her statement and urgency a new kind of realism. Jane Eyre is the picture of a suffering , lonely individual who is tortured mentally and physically at her aunt’s household. This paper is a detailed analysis of Jane’s search for identity at different stages of her life.
Key Words
Renunciation
Tenderness
Revolt
Individuality
Unconventional
Charlotte Bronte, though a passionate and romantic novelist, was compelled to write as a realist because she belonged to an age bedeviled by the onslaught of industrialization. Her novel, Jane Eyre (1847) is based on a critical character, her experiences and the resolution of her fortune in marriage.Charlotte Bronte was an innovator and her novel Jane Eyre enriched the tradition of the English novel. The most important contribution that Charlotte made was 'intensity '. This is the intensity associated not only with love but also with 'religious ecstasy '. Charles Bukhart remarks, "George Eliot is often said to be the first modern English novelist in her mastery of psychology, but Charlotte preceded her in this one respect, in her interest in transcribing

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