"Jane Eyre, from Governess to Girl Bride"

thesis

"the novel continues to prove unsettling in its use of gender identities and its associations of gender with class and age"

Godfrey Esther, "Jane Eyre, from Governess to Girl Bride", SEL Studies in English Literature,45:4( 1500-1900): 853-871

necessary background

"Since its publication in 1847, readers of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre have debated the subversive implications of this text. The plot conventions of Jane’s rise to fortune and the marriage union that concludes the novel suggest conservative affirmations of class and gender identities that seemingly contradict the novel’s more disruptive aspects."

supporting argument

Victorians("Jane Eyre" was written in 1947 and it is related Victorian period.) were expected to marry within same class, but in"Jane Eyre" we can see less strong class conflicts. Jane is not rich and Mr. Rochester is wealth, but they marry.