Gender roles are a theme which is explored in a number of ways in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." ... Bronte tackles these ideas in her novel, subverting the stereotypical Victorian gender roles and demonstrating groundbreaking new attitudes towards gender roles in society, making her arguably one of the first proponents of the feminist movement. ... Bertha's confinement parallels Jane's own entrapment in the red room as a child and her mild breakdown, and both women's experiences with being imprisoned are reflective of Bronte's strict upbringing, having been confined...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• 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. ... "Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty; they think of the world only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty fo...

• Word Count: 2338
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School