"Women are supposed...but women feel just as men feel...and embroidering bags" (130).
Charlotte Bronte writes her novel trying to emphasize the rights of women and to portray the struggles they go through. When Jane first meets Adele, she sees her as a sweet child, but also a wild one with an untamed spirit. Jane knows that she enjoys playing, just like little boys. She starts to brainstorm even further and believes that women are no different than boys, which is very true. Girls during this time period had to be elegant, know how to play the piano, and know how to sew, cook, and clean. If a woman wanted to go outside to help with the men's work, it was often frowned upon. Men were not able to go sew if they wanted to either, it was a one way street for both of them, and the paths could never intertwine. Bronte includes this into her novel to reveal the time period and to say that she has things that she wants to do in her life, that she is not able to partake in because of her sex. By adding these lines into her book it clearly identifies her strong beliefs that men and women should be treated equally because they all feel and think the same things, whether or not they admit to it.
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Photo Credit:
"Mary Cassatt American Impressionist Paintings & Prints." Encore Editions. 28 November 2009.
http://www.encore-editions.com/illustratedbks/aamart3/thumbs/Mary_Cassatt_Women_Sewing_1913_1914_os_21x21.jpg
USe last name rather than first .. Bronte rather than Charlotte
ReplyDeleteThe point made is well done -- and this does a nice job of remaining objective while still being insightful