The Role of Women

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Jane as an independent role model
Intelligent and a passion for life
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Strong moral compass – inwardly strong
Confident
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Plain – uninterested in appearances
Other good role models: Miss Temple Helen Burns Diana and Mary Rivers
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Other bad role models: Blanche Bertha Adele/Celine
Bronte uses the character of Jane to deliver her message on the limitations of women’s roles during the nineteenth century.
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During the extract, Jane is musing on her limited life and how it ‘agitated her to pain’.
Bronte presents Jane as a strong and passionate character who desires her own independence
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but she is “quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence”.
Bronte uses ‘fire’ in this quote and throughout the novel to symbolise Jane’s passion for life and adventure.
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Jane is unable to have ‘fire’ and ‘feeling’ in her life because she is confined by society’s expectations of women.
The intended effect on the reader is that we should feel empathy for Jane’s position as she is unable to achieve this as she is a woman,
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however, the nineteenth century reader would be shocked to hear that ‘women feel as men feel’ as it went against typical gender stereotypes of the time.
Throughout the novel, Jane’s fire is dampened by characters who try to control her
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Strong moral compass – inwardly strong

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Confident

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Plain – uninterested in appearances

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Other bad role models: Blanche Bertha Adele/Celine

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Card 5

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During the extract, Jane is musing on her limited life and how it ‘agitated her to pain’.

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