The primary and most basic narrative feature of Jane Eyre, published firstly as an autobiography, is the novel's first person narration, given by the eponymous character. ... Sandra Gilbert sees Jane Eyre as "a distinctively female Bildungsroman", in which Jane "struggles from the imprisonment of childhood toward an almost unthinkable goal of mature freedom". ... Jane thus proves herself independent of the narrative construct of the novel, in a way that the other characters in this novel (and characters in a story narrated by an omniscient third person narrator) cannot be. ... An original...

• Word Count: 2174
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gender roles are a theme which is explored in a number of ways in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." ... Jane Eyre deals with the entrapment of women, both physically and emotionally; and the links between sex and power, and the possibilities of women's sexuality being repressed for a subliminal fear of women gaining power in a male-dominated society. ... For the majority of Jane Eyre this is true of the male and female protagonists, Jane and Mr Rochester. ... The presentation of Blanche also demonstrates her to be a negative character, "Blanche, an accomplished lady of rank"...

• Word Count: 1797
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Explore the role of colonialism and 'the other' in Jane Eyre, with particular reference to the characters of Bertha and St. John By 1847, when Jane Eyre was first published, slavery had been abolished for nearly 14 years, and yet themes of racism, colonialism and slavery are prevalent throughout the novel. ... In Gayatri Spivak's essay, she writes that Bertha's function in Jane Eyre is 'to render indeterminate the boundary between human and animal.' ... Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's argument of the 'darker half' of Jane can be seen vividly...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" the part of Byronic hero is played by Rochester and in "Wuthering Heights," Emily's literary work, Heathcliff is nearly the definition of the Byronic hero. At one point in "Jane Eyre," Blanche Ingram even references a song from one of Lord Byron's famous poems Corsair. ... The most obvious example of a childhood experience coming out in a Bronte writing is Charlotte's representation of the Lowood School in Jane Eyre compared to her experiences at Cowan Bridge. ... In "Jane Eyre" while at Lowood, Helen Burns ...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jane Eyre is in some ways the epitome of the plain, powerful voice Charlotte strove to lend a platform to. ... It is important to remember that when Charlotte set out to write Jane Eyre, she was faced with infinite contingencies that would dictate the shape of the novel and the way it ran. ... The first person narration is personal, intimate, and we come to know Jane as a three-dimensional character as opposed to the 'automaton' she feels accused of being. ... As a book that safely passes the Bechdel test, the feminine gusto of Jane Eyre may have aged with time, but it remains to p...

• Word Count: 2473
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate