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Women and Men in Jane Eyre

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Jane Eyre is written by Charlotte Brontë in 1847 during Victorian Age. It is kind of Bildungsroman, the genre of the novel which focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adult hood. The story of Jane Eyre is about the journey of life of a girl named Jane Eyre. It tells the growing up of Jane Eyre who is looking for answer and experience. At the beginning, Jane stays with her aunt, Mrs. Reed because Uncle Reed makes her promise that she will raise Jane as her own child. She lives at Gateshead Hall along with the other members of Reed’s family, they are her cousins; John Reed, Georgiana Reed, and Eliza Reed. Jane often gets bad treats from John by bullying her. Jane starts her journey of life when she is 10 years old. She decides to leave Gateshead Hall and agrees to be sent away to school at Lowood. In this school, she meets her first best friend, a young girl named Helen Burns but later Helen died because of typhus. After Jane earns many experiences in years at Lowood, she moves to Thornfield to be a governess. She teaches a French girl named Adèle. Later on, Jane finds herself falling in love with her employer, the master of Thornfield, Edward Rochester. They decide to get married, but it is cancelled because Rochester already has a wife. Knowing that, Jane decides to go away from Thornfield and meets three siblings of Riverses who take care of Jane at Marsh End and Moor House, they are St. John Rivers, Diana Rivers, and Mary Rivers. Accidently, Jane and Riverses are cousins because their uncle is John Eyre, who has already dead and left Jane a large fortune. St. John asks Jane to accompany him as his wife to go to India as a missionary, but she refuses it. At the end of the story, Jane rebuilds her relationship with Rochester at Ferndean and they soon marry. An analysis of the character “Jane Eyre” reveals the role of woman in Victorian Age is restricted by the domination of men and the r

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