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This paper will try to show how two apparently antagonistic concepts such as Romanticism and Realism blend together in the story and while so doing it they enhance the quality of it. ... ”
Following the aforementioned premise, Jane Eyres text becomes a reflection, a self-mirroring form of the mid-19th-century Victorian reality by means of which its contemporary (19th-century) readers saw both themselves and their society reflected.
Such extent is achieved by references to romantic imagery of landscape; the moon; references to the weather; the image of the British empire and the aristocracy having plantations in Jamaica, or properties in Madeira. ... ” ); social patterns (the differences and inter-relation between social classes -Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester and Blanche Ingram-; characters (their social position and role in life -except for Jane Eyre (who becomes a governess, typically, a profession of the time); the aristocratic women, Blanche Ingram, Eliza and Georgiana Reed, etc. ... Rochester, Mr John Eyre of Madeira, Mr. Brocklehurst), their speeches and institutionally approved emotions (women behaving within a “Helen Burns’ style” rather than Jane Eyre’s -who is considered a sort of deviation from the institutionalised behaviour for a lady, “a picture of passion” as Mrs.
Approximate Word count = 869
Approximate Pages = 3.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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