"Jane Eyre"

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This paper explains how Bronte describes the society of the time in her famous novel. It states that, of all the obstacles for Jane Eyre to overcome, the crude Victorian society is the hardest, and Bronte pits her character against the many Victorian taboos and religious fervor that she, herself, must have witnessed in her own life. It shows the reader how Jane Eyre fights against extraordinary odds to find happiness and, eventually, love in 19th century England.

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"Jane Eyre was an orphan in Victorian England who went to live with her uncle and his family in Gateshead. Before she does, she contemplates the possibility of being sent to a "poorhouse." "You ought to be aware, Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed: she keeps you: if she were to turn you off, you would have to go to the poorhouse" (Chapter2, pg7). Poorhouses were notorious for their ill-treatment and diseases that spread through these institutions designed to tuck away the socially unacceptable and poor away from the rest of society."

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