Themes Of Independence In Jane Eyre And Matilda

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A Journey Through Independence as a Women
Jane Eyre addresses several themes throughout the novel from isolation and abuse, to independence. The movie Matilda portrays many of these same themes. Jane Eyre and Matilda both grew up without parents and lived in abusive households representing isolation and abuse, while both had to learn to fend for themselves, representing the theme of independence. Due to strict morals about religion, morality, and womanhood itself in the 1800s, Jane Eyre represents these themes more accurately.
Isolation and abuse are very apparent throughout both works. Jane grew up without her parents living with her aunt and hateful cousins and on many occasions being insulted and having the maids told to, “take her away

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