Jane Eyre
Report on the 19th Century
Throughout Jane Eyre, Brontë shows that two creeds exist: one for the lucky and another for everyone else. What becomes apparent towards the end of the novel is that Jane herself is for the social caste system. A Westminster Review article speaks with an extraordinarily similar voice. "It would neither harmonize with our tastes or opinions to make any long profession of our attachment to the working classes." Unsurprisingly, the paradigm established at the outset of the article suggests a paternalistic, bourgeois sensibility rather than a g…
