Summary Of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

Introduction

Without a doubt, Charlotte Brontë was progressive in her beliefs. With her famous novel Jane Eyre she challenges 19th-century conceptions of appropriate female behavior through the creation of a heroine who works, demands respect and combines self-control with passion and rebellion. After publication Jane Eyre was argued to be non Christian, extremely provocative and unacceptable piece of literature for the Victorian, who proudly cherished their self created pseudo values about female stereotypes and construct of the society, “yet Jane`s sense of herself as a woman – as equal to and with the same needs as a man – [was] next-door to insanity in England in the 1840s.” (Rich 469), but the novel touched many of its earliest readers deeply. Today as the time passed Jane Eyer is recognized as, “an extraordinary phenomenon: a totally assured, provocative, and compelling piece of realist fiction.” (Sanders 420). In the Novel a very young, plain penniless girl claims the right to have independence, respect, freedom of choice and action as large as that of any man. Such claim was revolutionary in the world to which Jane and Charlotte belonged. By studying salient features of women in Victorian society and defining the modern woman one 's, ideas can be gained to let us better comprehension of Jane Eyre as rebellious, passionate and revolutionary character. Thus Jane Eyre can be