Wednesday, November 17, 2010

How did Jane's life change after she inherited her families fortune in the novel Jane Eyre?

I am doing a paper from a Marxist point of view, and I need to write about how Jane's low economic standing caused her to be treated less human then those of higher economic standing.



To prove this, I need to write about how she was treated better when she gained her families fortune. So, that leads to my question,

How did people treat Jane differently after she gained money?

Specific examples are very helpful.How did Jane's life change after she inherited her families fortune in the novel Jane Eyre?
I'll tell you one thing which you wouldn't get from reading the book, because readers all knew it. She could get married. When she said she did not want to be considered as a money speculation (i.e., investment) she was dead serious. Gentlemen could not work at anything where they were directly paid without losing their status, and the oldest son inherited everything, so often the only way out of poverty was to marry money. Thus Mr. Rochester is pushed to marry Bertha- to get her cash. Oh, and once married, women had no right to their own money and property. There is a very clear exposition of this in ';Framley Parsonage'; by Trollope, useful for a Marxist paper- but then, you haven't even read the book you are writing about.

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