1. Jane Eyre
Rochester's wife, Bertha, and Jane in Jane Eyre. During the time of Jane Eyre, the Victorian Era, society's ideals for appearance for a woman were quite different from the actual appearance of Bertha or even Jane for that matter. ... Each gender, as well as class, has their own roles and acceptable behaviors that coincide with those roles in Jane Eyre. ... Helen, who is like a counter-character to Jane, has mastered the ability to follow the ideal rules of acceptable behavior for the role of a child. ... Society's ideals of appearance and roles are continuously broken througho...
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). ... Although, Helen represents an angel figure for Jane, she leaves Jane as she dies young of disease. ... During her time in school, she became imaginative and it resulted in Jane Eyre's stay at Lowood School, and the presenting Helen Burns, who dies at...