Social Realism in Charlotte Bronte's The Professor

Abstract

Charlotte Bronte'sThe Professorvigorously stands as an outstanding novel iii unfolding the socio-economic situation of the Victorian society. This work basically focuses on the pathetic condition of oppressed class people inEngland. It reflects the tussle between the upper class and lower class people in their attempts to raise their socio-economic status. To show the social reality, the novelist has created above mentioned two sets of characters based on the socio-economic condition. The central characters William and Frances Henry are working as labourers under capitalist mode of society. Wherever they go they cannot be free form the claws of bourgeois that make their life deplorable and poverty. The whole situation of human degradation has been portrayed as an inevitable consequence of private accumulation of capital, overwhelming gulf between poor and rich. Edward, Mr. Hunsden, M. Pelet, Zoraide Reuter belong to upper class of people. They present their cruel behaviour with the workers in their factory, private schools etc. William moves from one after another job for the hope of getting a respectable social economic status.