Jane Eyre: The New Victorian Woman

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In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte,Jane Eyre, a young and ordinary girl, with a past of full of loneliness, and self loathing comes into a welcoming home with her uncle who cares for her dearly. As if Jane’s life is not supposed to be able to enjoy happiness, her dear Uncle dies. This event leaves Jane to live alone with the wife of her Uncle as they are his dying wishes towards his wife. Mrs.Reed hates Jane because her husband loves Jane more than their own children. Despite Jane’s conditions Jane finds ways to cope and handle every challenge met. Jane is only able to complete tasks like this due to her being the new woman on the inside, and slowly letting rise and boil out of her to emerge as a new woman that none have ever seen. One that is independent, and able to make decisions without aid from her male counterparts. Many events in the younger years of Jane’s life where ones filled with hate towards her and towards herself, she would fill these voids by reading of faraway lands filled with excitement and with the great tales of the past which ravished and enthralled her young mind...

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