Quest For Female Individuality in Bronte’s Jane Eyre

Abstract

This present research work focuses on the celebrated novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It studies the protagonist’s ceaseless effort to find her individuality as being herself a female. During the course of the novel,Jane Eyre undergoes a series of changes. During her encounter with the men, different identities are manifested. She is always in search of a stable identity in the nineteenth century Victorian patriarchal society throughout the novel. But it is proved that patriarchy prevails everywhere and females have no individual identity; however, she persists in her effort to obtain her identity and establishes new way of life. Her victory lies in her realization, to gain and maintain one’s identity is not wonder in search of one’s personality but live by the set of norms and values one identifies and gives importance to.