J.E. #1: Eyre of Rebellion

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is a novel of love, a novel of marriage, but most importantly, it is a novel of female rebellion. Jane Eyre relates not only the rebellion of its heroine but also the parallel rebellion of its author. While we see Jane forced to live the life of a nineteenth century woman to employ herself with "women's" tasks, Brontë is forced to work beneath the strictures of the marriage plot novel--the only type of novel it is acceptable for her to write. Both women find a means of rebelling as they push against their boundaries without "technically" breaking the rules.

My next posts will be focusing on the empowering rebellion of these two inspiring women as it is preserved for the world within this incredible novel.