A Society of Unequal’s Just Won’t Do Essay -- Literary Analysis, Jan

Everyone has the right to govern oneself in how to act, where to live, and who to beau with. In Jane Eyre, Jane is controlled and structured by an underlying social and economic reappraisal of conventional patriarchal authority. First, we will examine the various patriarchs that Jane encounters with stern Reed, Mr. Brocklehurst, Mr. Rochester, and St. fast one. Then, we derriere turn our attention to the economics of social signifier and how Jane conducts herself where she resides rather it be at Gateshead, Lowood or Thornfield and then we will look at how Jane becomes an equal. Upon receiving a vast fortune from her uncle, Jane abandons her role of inferiority and travels to Ferndean to reunite with Rochester as equals. Jane Eyres mother decided to marry into a lower social class than her own and consequently did not inherit any of her familys wealth. buttocks Reed, Janes maternal cousin, however did inherit the familys wealth and so thought he was superior to Jane. Joh n made it apparent that his arrangement as sole male heir gives him absolute power to harry his dependent female cousin. One can see this when he finds her hole-and-corner(a) behind curtains reading a book, John Reed tells Jane, You are a dependent, mama says you have no money your father left you no(prenominal) you ought to beg, and not live here with gentlemens children like usIll teach you to rummage my book-shelves for they are mine all the house belongs to me (Bronte 23). John then proceeds to demand Jane to go and stand by the door, which she complied to because she is considered his inferior. John then threw the book that he found Jane reading at her. She uncivilised and struck her head against the door, causing it to bleed. Jane verbally lashes out against John Reed, and ... ...ction, pile 31, No. 4. (March 1977) 397-420 JSTOR. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. .Wyatt, Jean. Patriarch of Ones own Jane Eyre and romantic Love. Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, Volume 4, No. 2. (1985) 199-216 JSTOR. Web. 9 Nov. 2011. .Roy, Parama. Unaccommodated Women and the Poetics of Property in Jane Eyre. Studies in position Literature, 1500-1900, Volume 29, No. 4. Nineteenth Century (Autumn 1989) 713-727. JSTOR. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. .Monahan, Melodie. Heading out Is Not Going Home Jane Eyre. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Volume 28, No. 4. Nineteenth Century (Autumn 1988) 589-608. JSTOR. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. .Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre Boston Bedford of St. Martins, (1996) Print.