Rebellious Romanticism
During the romantic era in 1816 Charlotte Bronte was born. The romantic era does not have an exact date for its initiation or conclusion, but generally agreed to be around 1800s to 1830s. Therefore, Bronte, the author of Jane Eyre, she had romantic views even though her critically acclaimed book was published in 1847. Somewhere along the mid nineteenth to early twentieth centuries the Victorian era took place. This era contrasted sharply to the Romantic period. The main character of Jane Eyre struggles to fit in to her strongly Victorian adoptive family. Charlotte Bronte writes about a rebellious child to teach us how truly wrong Victorian era expectations were. Females are not taken seriously during the romantic era. “…Bronte published her first novel, Jane Eyre, in 1847 under the manly pseudonym Currer Bell.” (Biography.com Editors, 2014, p.1) Charlotte had to sign her novel under a masculine name in order for her book to even have a chance of being published. Having experienced discrimination based on gender, Charlotte decided to tell a story that went against Victorian views with a rebellious main character. …show more content…
Females had to obey male orders because of the belief that one gender is inferior to the other. In this time period if you are a female you are expected to be a housewife. Unless a women was rich she had very little formal education. Ironically, if any teaching was done it was on how to keep a man content. Simultaneously, instruction focused on how to be feminine such as dressing in a ladylike manner and still having their innocence or virginity. If women did not live up to Victorian expectancies, they were condemned to a lifetime without matrimony which, was deemed to be a great shame. Coaching for matrimony took so much time that hardly any period was left for a women’s free time. Their childhood aspiration is to be the flawless persona of a
During the romantic era in 1816 Charlotte Bronte was born. The romantic era does not have an exact date for its initiation or conclusion, but generally agreed to be around 1800s to 1830s. Therefore, Bronte, the author of Jane Eyre, she had romantic views even though her critically acclaimed book was published in 1847. Somewhere along the mid nineteenth to early twentieth centuries the Victorian era took place. This era contrasted sharply to the Romantic period. The main character of Jane Eyre struggles to fit in to her strongly Victorian adoptive family. Charlotte Bronte writes about a rebellious child to teach us how truly wrong Victorian era expectations were. Females are not taken seriously during the romantic era. “…Bronte published her first novel, Jane Eyre, in 1847 under the manly pseudonym Currer Bell.” (Biography.com Editors, 2014, p.1) Charlotte had to sign her novel under a masculine name in order for her book to even have a chance of being published. Having experienced discrimination based on gender, Charlotte decided to tell a story that went against Victorian views with a rebellious main character. …show more content…
Females had to obey male orders because of the belief that one gender is inferior to the other. In this time period if you are a female you are expected to be a housewife. Unless a women was rich she had very little formal education. Ironically, if any teaching was done it was on how to keep a man content. Simultaneously, instruction focused on how to be feminine such as dressing in a ladylike manner and still having their innocence or virginity. If women did not live up to Victorian expectancies, they were condemned to a lifetime without matrimony which, was deemed to be a great shame. Coaching for matrimony took so much time that hardly any period was left for a women’s free time. Their childhood aspiration is to be the flawless persona of a