Feminism Interpretation In Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brotte is a remarkable woman writer in the 19th-century English literature. Her masterpiece Jane Eyre received comprehensive attention and reception after published. Jane Eyre is the most popular one among her books for its spiritually attractive Cinderella-like heroine in love story. The heroine, Jane Eyre, is a passionate woman full of affection, which is unseasonable in her age.First of all, this thesis briefs the background in Victorian age and the theme of the paper.Secondly, the thesis gives an introduction to the theory feminism in the literary. The novel writing of this kind in Victorian age has great significance in offering feminine writers an opportunity to exercise their literary ability and express their special feminine voice.Thirdly, this thesis gives a brief review of Charlotte Brotte's life experience and Jane Eyre. It introduces Charlotte Brotte's own life experience and her view of point as a feminist from the novel because heroine Jane Eyre embodies Charlotte Brotte's aspects of life and personality and shares much in common which lend a realistic overtone to the novel.Then the thesis analyzes the main characters in three aspects, Jane Eyre's female consciousness, pursuit of equality and freedom and analysis of feminism limitation in Jane Eyre. This thesis is dedicated to the study of profound meaning underlying in the female social, psychological and sexual reality in this novel in Victorian England. This thesis explores into the heroine Jane Eyre to study Charlotte Brotte's special perspective on feminism in the patriarchal society.In conclusion, this thesis examines the nature of Charlotte Brotte's pioneering literary feminism, and both the positive and negative characterizations of Jane Eyre in the text reveal the writer's feminist value in the Victorian England. This paper also demonstrates that the positive development of female consciousness had achieved and also the limitation of female consciousness in the middle of 19th century.