Both Persuasion and Jane Eyre offer various approaches to explain the standards of "the ideal woman". ... Also in Jane Eyre we receive a taste of the idea of how a woman (or girl even) should behave. ... Another way that Persuasion and Jane Eyre implies the idea of an "ideal woman" is to compare Jane and Anne's looks and behavior to how they ought to be. ... Also, Jane repeatedly regrets her bluntness as shown on page 659 in Jane Eyre. ... In Jane Eyre there is a constant sense that a persons life can change by parting for the norm and following ones own convictions. ...

• Word Count: 1474
• Approx Pages: 6
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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. ... With Rochester being unattractive in Jane's eyes, and Jane describing herself as "plain", they appear to be equa...

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

Like charlotte Bronte's heroine Jane Eyre reflects: "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. ...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography