Moreover, Women were not allowed to express themselves and claim their own identity, independence and sense of belonging, such as the protagonist in Jane Eyre, who struggles to find a family and home. ... Jane Eyre shows the condition of an orphan with regard to the home as she has no home and no sense of belonging (Tabosa, 2008, p. 348). ... As if Jane were a trouble, because the word "lighter" suggests that Jane is a burden to Reed's family. ... Although, Helen represents an angel figure for Jane, she leaves Jane as she dies young of disease. ... During her time in school, she became im...

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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is a feminist bildungsroman set in the early 1800s. ... In Jane Eyre, Jane refuses to accept the conventions of the Victorian woman and makes a name for herself by her own means-through fiction. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Bronte uses Jane as a figure of strength and op-position in order to criticize the social prejudice that women of the Victorian era. Jane Eyre is particularly about the narrow social sphere of British governesses and Jane's challenges and adventures are somewhat parallel to Charlotte Bronte's own life, making it a semi...

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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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The Victorian Era develops during the reign of Queen Victoria and ends with her death, which was between 1837 and 1901. It is characterized by rapid growth and extreme change in politics, literature, science, social class, and economy. It was a time of great innovation and reform not only in socia...

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