The novel, Jane Eyre, by written by Charlotte Bronte is the story about a brave woman who overcomes her hard situation and get her better social class by herself, although most English women could not do that in Victorian Age. Because, in that time, women could not be accepted as a good writer appropriately, the theme of Jane Eyre that was written by a woman writer was also criticized inappropriately by many critics. Although Emma is an old-fashioned and classical novel, the expression of the novel is great and the theme can be applied to every period. So, the present-day people can enjoy reading this book and like the preposterous novelist, Charlotte Bronte sustainedly.
This is a novel written in the first person that means Jane tells her
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One is that it has good portrayals of mean her relatives. Bronte described the character of her aunt as having an ignoring attitude: “‘Jane, I don’t like cavillers or questioners; besides there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. Be seated somewhere; and until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent.’” (373). Mrs. Reed has a selfish view. The author mentioned, “Mrs. Reed was blind and deaf on the subject; she never saw him strike or heard him abuse me, though he did both now and then in her presence, more frequently, however, behind her back (376-375). The other good portrayal is wimpy and bad cousin, John. John Reed is described as a brutal boy. The author wrote his usual behaviors toward Jane and her usual response, “He bullied and punished; not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in a day, but continually: every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh on my bones shrank when he came near” (Bronte 374). Two characters of antagonists are suitable for villainous adversaries.
The second valuable point of an entertaining novel is a good metaphor of the bleak situation by using an expert of the book British Bird. In the novel, the author expressed Jane’s situation metaphorically that the season is cold winter and the situation of the British bird in her reading book is solitary or bleak in the vast field (Bronte