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A 5 page paper which examines such aspects as the squalid conditions of so-called charity institutions like the Lowood School and the limitations placed on females by the gender roles society demanded them to fulfill made a great impression upon the readers of the time, but are largely overlooked today. No additional sources are used.
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to the dilemmas of suffering feminine protagonists. When it was first published in 1847, Charlotte Bront?s Jane Eyre clearly struck a collective nerve. It moved beyond the Romantic
blueprint established by Jane Austen in her early nineteenth-century works. She decided to use her heroine as a way of addressing what were regarded as important social issues of
the day. The ways in which she frankly discussed the harsh conditions at Janes Lowood School and her inquiry into the social acceptability of female assertiveness affected her target
readership in ways that have been lost on the contemporary readers of the twenty-first century. First, in 1847, education was hardly an easily accessible commodity or regarded as a fundamental
human right. Women, in particular, were frequently denied education by Victorian society because they were expected to become wives and mothers and never move beyond the domestic sphere.
When Jane Eyre is enrolled in the fundamentalist Christian Lowood School, she was lucky to be there. But it was a charity school that bore little resemblance to the
private learning institutions of the upper classes. Few modern readers even know what a charity school is, but for anyone at the time who had attended anything remotely resembling
one (as Charlotte Bront? herself had), the abuses struck a chord of familiarity. After an inane act of dropping her writing slate, breaking it into pieces, Jane was paralyzed
with fear and did not immediately admit her complicity. However, she was pushed forward by two other students, which confirmed to headmaster Mr. Brocklehurst that Jane was a liar.
Forced to stand on a stool for everyone to see, the humiliated Jane described her sensations: "There was I, then, mounted aloft: I, who had said I could not
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