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A 20 page research paper that analyzes Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre. The writer begins with a brief biography of Charlotte Bronte's life and then offers a general synopsis of the novel before discussing specific characterizations, as well as parallels between Bronte's life and that of her fictionalized heroine. The writer concludes by arguing that Bronte offered the Victorian age, and particularly her female contemporaries, a new paradigm for femininity. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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were the pen names for the Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Victorian society soon learned that "Currer Bell" was actually Charlotte Bronte and that the shockingly independent heroine of
Jane Eyre was penned by a woman. To understand the enormity of this, the student researching this topic should realize the role that women played in Victorian society.
In this culture, women had no civil or political rights. Women not only could not vote, a married woman could not own property in her own name. Women were expected
to stay completely within the domestic sphere. They were pictured as the silent, devoted helpmates of their husbands, humbly accepting the leadership of their "betters." Typically, husbands acted toward
their wives as if they were in "loco parentis" to these grown women, rather then treating them as fellow adults. Also, the Victorians are famous for the way in
which they denied that any "good" woman would have sexual feelings. To this society, Charlotte Bronte introduced Jane Eyre, a woman who not only formulated opinions, but also expressed
them. Furthermore, Charlotte Bronte pictures Jane as desiring a passionate relationship and rejecting a marriage based only on spiritual values. In short, Bronte pictured a real women to a world
that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her masterwork Jane Eyre will demonstrate the depth and
scope of Brontes achievement. Charlotte Brontes life As a woman Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) was the most accessible member of the famous Bronte family, which, besides her sisters, included a
brother, Branwell, and their steely father, Patrick (Rubin 14). Charlottes father was a poor Irishman who became the parish clergyman in the small, isolated hamlet of Haworth, which was
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