Jane's Eyriness Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre challenges the accepted Victorian conceptions of gender hierarchy, making the statement that a woman's inner development merits as much attention and analysis as that of a man. ... This is a very bold statement by Bronte, in her attempt to make a political statement within her book Jane Eyre. ... In quoting the character Jane, "To open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended, a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The books Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens were written in the Victorian era where gender and social limitations were forced upon the protagonists by society; both books use very simple characters to define and defy these limitations set before them, which ultimately created classics. To identify how gender impacted Eyre and Copperfield, gender roles must be identified. ... David Copperfield and Jane Eyre had very similar childhoods, Jane was orphaned David lost his father, Jane lived in an abusive home, David lived in an abusive home, Jane was sent off t...

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• Grade Level: High School