Sep 6, 2008
Jane Eyre | Jane Eyre
At a glance:
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- First Published: 1847
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The nineteenth century
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Jane Eyre, Edward Fairfax Rochester, St. John Rivers, Bertha Mason Rochester, Sarah Reed, Helen Burns
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Values, Self-discovery, Class conflict, Love or romance, Gender roles, Superstition, Nineteenth century, Blindness or blind persons, Marriage, Mistaken or secret identity, Missions or missionaries, Individuality, God, Emotions, Mental illness, Ministry or ministers, England or English people, Upper classes, Death or dying, Inheritance or succession, Faith, Orphans or orphanages, Fire, Victorian era or Victorianism, Shyness
- Locales: England
Form and Content
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre traces the personal development of a young
woman who must struggle to maintain a separate identity and independence in the suffocating
pressures of her culture. She grapples with the societal expectations of her gender, which frequently
conflict with her intuitive sense of self. Each setting and situation that Jane encounters denotes a
phase in her personal progress, teaching her and preparing her for the next experience.
The linear organization of Jane’s maturation process is attributable to the viewpoint of
the...
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