The background of "Jane Eyre"

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          When the author created "Jane Eyre", Britain was already the world's largest industrial country, but the status of British women had not changed, and they were still in a subordinate and dependent position. Women's survival goal was to marry into a rich family, even if they could not be born in a rich family, they also tried to obtain wealth and status through marriage. The only choice for women's career was to be a good wife and mother. Women who work as writers are considered to be against their femininity and are fiercely attacked by men. The fact that Charlotte and her sisters used masculine pseudonyms in their works shows how difficult women writers were at that time. "Jane Eyre" was written under this passive background.

2022-12-06

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  Charlotte Bronte was born into a parson's family in the north of England in 1816. Her mother died young and Charlotte was sent to a boarding school at the age of eight. Living conditions there were so bad that her two sisters died of lung disease. So Charlotte and her sister Emily returned home and spent their childhood in the desolate Yorkshire Hills. At fifteen she entered Miss Wooler's school, and a few years later became a teacher there. Later she used to be a governess, but because she could not bear the discrimination and vitriol of the noblewoman, Miss rich to governess, gave up the way of making a living as a governess. She had planned to run her own school, so she went to Italy with Emily to study French and German at her aunt's expense. The school failed, however, because no one came. But her experience studying in Italy inspired her to express herself and to devote herself to the path of literary creation.

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  Jane is taken in by people she later discovers are her cousins. One of them is St. John, a principled clergyman. He gives her a job and soon proposes marriage, suggesting that she join him as a missionary in India. Jane initially agrees to leave with him but not as his wife. However, St. John pressures her to reconsider his proposal, and a wavering Jane finally appeals to Heaven to show her what to do. Just then, she hears a mesmeric call from Rochester. Jane returns to Thornfield to find the estate burned, set on fire by Rochester’s wife, who then jumped to her death. Rochester, in an attempt to save her, was blinded. Reunited, Jane and Rochester marry. Rochester later regains some of his sight, and the couple have a son.

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  Jane Eyre’s exploration of her own identity and personhood is also a journey of recognizing the crisis and failures of the Victorian Era. It was during this time that the British Empire was colonizing the globe, a factor that determined the affluence of the British nation. This led to a newer economic structure and a fast-emerging middle class that had its own interests and modalities of existing. Jane’s journey touches on some of those middle class and working class concerns such as social mobility, education, and working rights. Jane represents the struggle of what these concerns meant for women, especially an orphan woman during this time.

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  Jane Eyre’s exploration of her own identity and person hood is also a journey of recognizing the crisis and failures of the Victorian Era. It was during this time that the British Empire was colonizing the globe, a factor that determined the affluence of the British nation. This led to a newer economic structure and a fast-emerging middle class that had its own interests and modalities of existing. Jane represents the struggle of what these concerns meant for women, especially an orphan woman during this time.

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