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A paper which looks at the theory that Jane Eyre begins as a realist novel and ends as a fairy tale, and concludes that this is not the case: Bronte conforms to the realist genre throughout the narrative. Bibliography lists 5 sources
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as a fairy tale" would imply that Bronte has, at some point in the narrative, abandoned her early thematic structure and opted instead for the kind of fanciful conclusion which
might appeal to the sentimental, the archetypal "happy ending". However, to take this view would require negating many of the darker elements of the story and the atypically independent and
autonomous character of Jane herself, and would cast her in a sort of "Cinderella" mould, which does not square with the progression of the narrative as a whole.
As Steyer (2004) points out, Jane Eyre has been hailed as one of the
first feminist novels, despite the fact that there is "not a hint in the book of any desire for political, legal, educational, or even intellectual equality between the sexes" (Steyer,
2004, PG). What Bronte does present, however, is a female character who does not conform to the traditional Victorian pattern of social roles: Janes early life, and her need to
be self-sufficient in order to survive economically, mean that she has managed to avoid many of the traps of social convention and develop her own ethical values, and her own
way of interacting with the world around her. Is this a
realistic portrayal of a woman of the time? Perhaps not, if we equate realism with typicality - we are not expected to view Jane as representative of Victorian women in
general. But realism as a genre is more concerned with describing accurately the events in the characters lives, their social interactions and the underlying motivations which drive those interactions: in
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