Critiquing the victorian orthodoxy in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

Abstract

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is an in eteenth century English novels, which successfully critiques the contemporary English society bringing the hidden aspects into the fore. It is the time marred with ideological differences between the people’s aspiration for freedom and liberty, followed by suppression of the dogmatic class– representative class of the bourgeoisie. It presents the story of Jane, an orphan girl, who despite all the odds heralded in her way never loses hope for better tomorrow. Despite all the in humane treatment to her by the society and individuals, she is optimistic and positive even to her arch enemies. Her greatest weapons to fight the unjust are compassion and for giveness. Her struggle is symbolic to the desire of the then people, who have been hopefully waiting for a better tomorrow–a perspective to analyze history from other than established notion of hierarchical notion.