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A 4 page paper which examines Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” in
relationship to her position as a woman of her times. No additional sources cited.
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existence for women in general. And, throughout it all there is the theme of love, and the theme of the power of love. Through love we see Jane deal with
her position as a woman, but we also see her maintain her own individuality to some extent. The following paper examines how Jane uses love to deal with the confining
realities associated with her gender. Jane Eyre and Confinement Janes life in the beginning, was clearly one that speaks of confinement. As a woman her place was clearly
regulated and controlled, for she had very few options. Interestingly enough, however, as a young woman she did not actually see the confinement she was within. However, towards the end
of the story she does sense this. For example, in chapter 11 of the novel we see her reflect on the sense of confinement she experienced as a child.
In further understanding some of this feminist approach to the notion of confinement felt by Jane we must understand that women of Janes time were expected to be quiet and
demure and calm. As Jane indicates, "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field
for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in
their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to
condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex" (Bronte XII: 96). In this we see
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