Paragraph 1 thesis

Charlotte Bronte exposes the injustice of the Victorian class system through Jane’s systematic and unjust poor treatment in the Reed household and at Lowood School.

Paragraph 1 thesis

Charlotte Bronte exposes the injustice of the Victorian class system through Jane’s systematic and unjust poor treatment in the Reed household and at Lowood School.

Paragraph 2 thesis

Another aspect of Victorian society which Bronte criticises is the strict gender roles, seen most clearly in how they negatively shape Jane and Rochester’s dysfunctional early relationship.

Paragraph 3 thesis

Through Jane’s refusal to lose her independence, Bronte exposes the damaging nature of the Victorian moral system which prioritised obedience and discipline over happiness.

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‘rebel slave’

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‘You must be tied down’

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‘They will have a great deal of money, and you will have none: it is your place to be humble,’

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‘Judge’

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‘I could not help it, the restlessness was in my nature, it agitated me to pain sometimes’,

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‘I should have been a careless shepherd if I had left a lamb - my pet lamb - so near a wolf's den, unguarded: you were safe,’

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‘I am no bird and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will’.

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‘My daughter, flee temptation’.

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‘I am ready to go to India, If I may go free’

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‘Reader, I married him’

critical reading

‘colonial oppressive wealth and diminishes the power of his gender’ as Susan Meyer states, from ‘Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy of "Jane Eyre"’.cr