Jane Eyre

"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.” (Bronte ch.12) Jane wasn’t your typical woman, explained in this quote, wanting to experience more of the world. Feminism was still scarce in the Victorian era and deeply looked down on, although some women did rebel against society to live for themselves. Charlotte Bronte uses both her feminist views and rebellious life experiences to write her novel Jane Eyre.

Jane Eyre embraces many feminist views in opposition to the Victorian feminine ideal. Charlotte Bronte herself was among one of the first feminist writers of her time. Women then were looked upon as inferior and repressed by the society in which they lived. This novel supports and spreads the idea of an independent woman who works for herself, thinks for herself, and acts of her own accord. Women of this era were repressed, and had little if any social stature. They had a very few rights