Thursday, October 26, 2017
Is this book one large political message?
In this book there are tons of inklings on Bronte's ideas of the class structure. In many cases Bronte challenges the rules of marriage of the time. She shows this through Jane's parents and Jane's relationship between her and Mr. Rochester. There is also a lot of examples of the way woman were portrayed at the time. Woman, a lot of the times, were viewed as inferior to men. Bronte goes against this idea by putting a strongly independent woman as her protagonist. This was thought to be different in the time this book was published. Another key part is the intolerance showed from the upper class to the lower class. Bronte uses Jane's childhood and Jane's time as governess to convey this message. Mrs Reed was too harsh, obliviously a hyperbole, to Jane because of class difference. Perhaps, this book was made to show that the class structure was too strict and restricted many people. Is this a political message or a mere story about a fictional person's life? What do you think?
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I agree with you Micheal on some points. In all honesty what book isn't one big political message. With Jane she is the female society as a whole. Her journey shows the journey many women had to do to get anywhere in a world like that.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you for the most part. But I believe Bronte didn't as much write the novel as a magnifying glass towards social/class structure or the treatment of women. I believed that Bronte wrote this book off of her own experiences, similar to an autobiography but with more abuse, sadness, and other things to make it actually interesting to read. I do believe that the novel, Jane Eyre, could be seen or used as a political message, but that Charlotte Bronte didn't really have that in mind.
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