Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

“Jane Eyre”, is an autobiography of the author “Charlotte Brontë”, which has been credited as an “influential feminist text” since it was published in 1847, in London, England. It is a novel about the life of the orphan “Jane Eyre” who experienced lots of difficulties and distress and finally lived a happy life.

The novel proves that marriage isn’t her goal as much as preserving her identity and her freedom in a male-dominated society. In the 19th century when & women were to rely on men for financial purposes and social standards, the novelist sought to defy those notions about women and intended to depict “Jane” as an independent character who swam against the stream of her society’s norms.

Many scholars studied the novel from different perspectives, and most of them studied it mainly from the following five aspects: exploring the feminism in the novel; analyzing the characters’ images based on appraisal theory; discussing the protagonists’ dual characters based on Freudian psychoanalysis; exploring the Christian cultural elements in the novel from the point view of religion and culture; elaborating the real reasons why the two leading characters had a tortuous relationship by applying ethical literary criticism.