Useful+Essays

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Useful Essays

Looking for a critical essay to help you make a powerpoint or to use for a lesson? On this page we've gathered up some critical essays and posted their abstracts as well to help you determine whether that is what you are looking for. Each essay is scholarly peer-reviewed and is found in journal articles on library databases. Because the links are attached to a library database which everyone might not have access to, we have cited them on a seperate page (citation page) so if you would like to learn more check on that page after reading the abstracts and selecting the essays you are interested in.

__"Am I A Monster?': Jane Eyre Among the Shadows of Freaks."__
 * Discusses the image of freaks in nineteenth-century literature, particularly in the context of Bertha in Charlotte Brontë's '**Jane** **Eyre**.' View of Mr. Rochester as a civilized man; Feminist readings of Bertha; Concepts of freaks and deviants; Victorian freak shows; **Jane's** relationship to the freak image; Patriarchal oppression.

__ "The Falling Woman inThree Victorian Novels." __ __" Speech and Silence In Jane Eyre." __
 * Examines image of the falling **woman** in three **Victorian** novels. Analysis of **Victorian** obsession with **women's** chastity; Focus on the nature of temptation rather than the fall in Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre,' Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Mary barton' and George Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss'; Element of class in the equation of seduction in the three novels; Role of choice in the novels.
 * Focuses on issues regarding silence and speech tackled in the book '**Jane****Eyre**.' Notions about silence; Issue of social acceptance; Experiences of a child related to silence and listening.

__ "Jane's Crown of Thorns: Feminism and Christianity in Jane Eyre" __
 * Discusses the implications of Christianity for a feminist reading of '**Jane****Eyre**,' by Charlotte Brontë. Past feminist readings of the novel, which have shown that **Jane****Eyre** rejected the patriarchal religious value-system of St. John Smith; Interpretation of the novel for its religious themes and the theological and doctrinal controversies of Brontë's era; Idea that the novel proclaims a message of radical spiritual autonomy for women.

"Inside and Outside: Jane Eyre and Marginalization through labeling."
 * Presents an interpretation of the novel `**Jane** **Eyre**,' by Charlotte Bronte.**Jane** as a social outsider in the novel; **Jane's** description with derogatory labels; Threatening character of the novel; Reaction of critics to the novel.