Jane Eyre Feminism

I Can, I Dare and I Do

Jane Eyre is one of the Britain’s most famous novel. It was written by the English authoress Charlotte Bronte and published 1847. The novel has inspired many artists and has been adapted in several art forms like films, television programs and theatre, not to mention the various rewritings and analyses of the story. Several silent Jane Eyre films were published in the early twentieth century. A number of films based on the novel have been published since then. The latest Jane Eyre film was distributed by Universal Pictures 2011, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench and Jamie Belland. The film takes place in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and follows

The reputable English poet William Blake was passionate about bringing to light the hypocrisy and the misery that many poor children experienced in England. In his collection of poems Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul he condemns the treatment of poor children and the dominant custodians who show very little sympathy towards their wards (Pakzadian, and Moinzadeh 114). This bleak reality of poor children in England is well depicted in the film. After having been brought up by her maternal uncle's family who hated her and abused her physically and mentally, Jane was sent to school for poor or orphaned girls. The conduct of the school director is a good example of religious hypocrisy for the reason that while he was abusing the girls he often quoted God and made it look like he was only carrying out Gods will. Yet another example of his hypocrisy was how differently he treated the school girls compared to his own girls. He was very keen to teach the school girls good manners and self-denying in the spirit of Christ while indulging himself and his family with plenitude. The British literature is swarming with testimonies of maltreatment of abandoned and poor children and religious hypocrisy. These stories are not just a fiction but based on reality in many cases. In the mid nineteenth century the Poor Sisters of Nazareth were founded in London and one of its tasks was to care for children. These so called Nazareth houses spread around Britain, housing thousands of children. In the late twentieth century people who had been in these houses began to speak out about the violence and the cruelty of the nuns. These stories are horrifying testimonies of the suffering the inmates experienced as children in these houses. Catholic Archbishop