The Ideal Victorian Woman: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte

The Ideal Victorian Woman Charlotte Bronte uses her novel, "Jane Eyre", to satirize the classist society of the Victorian era. Bronte expresses the repression of 19th century Victorian woman through the figurative and literal confinement of female characters. She primarily shows this through the main character,r Jane Eyre and her dealing with and going through life. Bronte also displays this theme with secondary characters Jane meets like, Helen Burns, Mrs. Temple, Bertha Rochester, Grace …

…viewed as property rather than companions very well. By figuratively isolating Jane and Bertha, Bronte shows that women with a conscience voice and opinion were not dealt with correctly so they were shunned as improper. Jane is not content with marriage until she is Rochester's equal which did not come easy. All the women in the novel were somehow separated from everyone else by a superior and driving force that was trying to control them.