Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre

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What are the MAIN four themes in 'Jane Eyre'?
The treatment of women, social class, passion/desire vs reason and religion
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What areas of Bronte's personal life are echoed in the novel 'Jane Eyre'?
Both Jane and Bronte grew up without a mother figure, both were sent to boarding schools where the girls were ill-treated and, both Bronte and Jane were governesses and fell in love with higher status, unattainable men
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What male name did Charlotte Bronte use so she could publish her novel, 'Jane Eyre'?
Currer Bell
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What characters does Bronte use to aim to challenge Victorian ideals of women?
Jane, Miss Temple, Bertha Mason, Rochester
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What relation is Jane to St. John, Diana Rivers and Mary Rivers?
A cousin
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What areas of Bronte's personal life are echoed in the novel 'Jane Eyre'?

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Both Jane and Bronte grew up without a mother figure, both were sent to boarding schools where the girls were ill-treated and, both Bronte and Jane were governesses and fell in love with higher status, unattainable men

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What male name did Charlotte Bronte use so she could publish her novel, 'Jane Eyre'?

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What characters does Bronte use to aim to challenge Victorian ideals of women?

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What relation is Jane to St. John, Diana Rivers and Mary Rivers?

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