However idealized is the lady, the courtly tradition therefore surfaces the existence of females, whether by physical or male-defined virtue, disguises the inner characters, and in a way impersonalises women from the ordinary humane nature. ... "The social function of woman is sufficiently defined by male-generated strictures on purity and wifely duty so that no autonomous image of woman exists and 'feminism' is inconceivable," Winthrop Wetherbee in his The Canterbury Tales, a critical analysis suggests. ...

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Rochester, born of notable family, is part of upper class while Jane herself, sprinted from low extraction, was just an ordinary governess not more than a servant. ... We can easily prove Jane's rebellious spirit from her analysis on her own character: "I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own, between absolute submission and determined revolt. ...

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