Gender Roles In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Within the context of Jane Eyre, the main character plays a role that opposes to the ideal model of women from the Victorian Era. From the beginning as a kid, Jane’s rebellious character opposed to the aspects of how girls should behave. Likewise, her complex interest in books displayed a genuine attraction to subjects that required creativity and analysis, like science. Throughout the book, Jane’s character development possessed these components, curiosity for people’s character through their features, that later expanded towards her unrestrained personality and her interest for pseudo-science; which was common during the 19th century. Examining somebody’s skull and face used to be a common technique to analyze and determine a person’s character.

There is no doubt women have as much high capacity as men to develop into the outer world and become independent and challenged into fields as well as men. However, when it comes to the Victorian Age, the feminine aspects of things were distinguished as fragile, vulnerable, and weak. Even so, becoming outstanding in a world dominated by males during the century was not an obstacle for some women who eventually made history and became the pathway to success for many women around the world emerging into the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. During the 19th century “women were excluded from universities and where gender stereotypes were rigidly enforced.” (Coe and Ferworn 46). A women main objective during the Victorian Era was to serve wifely duties as well as being expected to keep their interest in home and

Ad was born in 1815, named Augusta Ada Byron, or better known as Ada Lovelace, was one of the first computer programmers way before even computers existed. Interestingly George G. Byron, Ada’s father inspired the characterizations and persona a Byronic hero is known as of today, a parallel with Rochester’s character in Jane Eyre. Ada’s mother Annabella, whom was intellectually gifted and had received an education that included science and mathematics, decided to educate her daughter with the same principles she was raised. Ad’s mother encouraged her to follow the path of creativity rather than just the subjects women were commonly educated on, such as: music, French, and literature, “Lovelace was schooled rigorously in mathematics and sciences”. Although Lovelace was excluded from attending a university facility, she instead was tutored by a variety of individuals and influenced by, the inventor of the first theoretical computer, Charles Babbage (Coe and Ferworn 46). Modern computing is riddled with gender bias and mostly contributed by men. Yet, Ada Lovelace was capable, as Jane, to exceed her limits and expand the concept of women being capable to accomplish success. Ada has contributed to the STEM field with her perseverance throughout her educational career and pushed the