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Oppression And Freedom In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

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In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte there are many themes of oppression and freedom. This theme is especially prevalent during her time at Gateshead. While Jane is at Gateshead she expresses her feelings of oppression by comparing the Reeds to slave owners and Romans. Furthermore, she gains freedom from this oppression by speaking her mind and freeing her thoughts. The oppression Jane experiences at Gateshead is expressed in terms of slavery. During one of our first encounters of John Reed we are given the impression of him being a slave driver. Jane exclaimed “You are like a murderer- you are like a slave-driver- you are like the Roman emperors!” (Bronte 13), from this quote we learn that Jane feels like she is treated as a slave
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