Self-Fulfilment In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

A contrast is clear in the novel in regards to self-fulfilment. A clear insight is given to the readers as the heroine achieves advancement and promotion of oneself and her interests through means of a general and ethnic piercing which gives the creole a figure of self- gratification and the Oriental female one of self-depravation. Inside Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre, subjects of colonialism are firmly bound up with representations of sexual category, giving specific focus to the body of the female colonial other. Her portrayal of her main protagonist reveals a characterization based on the attitude that the figure of the colonial other with a distinctive incapability to support Victorian social mores.

The novel acts as a festivity of domestic English life, considering non- European values as being uncivilised and animalistic. Some critics said that the text is an influential proto-feminist work, an illustration of counterparts between representations of the imprisoned ethnic outsiders and the predicament of

Although this adjourned cost becomes a means of her achieving self-fulfilment as the protagonist is content to marry Rochester because her adoring feelings towards him. Therefore, Jane Eyre is an alternative domestic novel in which the virtue of self-renunciation is undervalued. This devaluation of Bertha does not lead to moral chaos but creates a side of her that embodies the female self-indulgence, female passion and sexual hunger. “Bertha Mason is a female version of the ‘immoral West Indian planter,” a literary stereotype that, following the abolition of the African slave trade, was commonly invoked as “a useful shorthand for depravity.” It is clear from Rochester’s description of his first wife that it is not her madness he finds so intolerable as her