Charlotte Bronte is a very talented and bold writer. At the time when Jane Eyre was published (1847) it was not socially correct for women to be so bold as to write a book like Jane Eyre. This reveal much about the author, Charlotte Bronte. Jane seems to be Charlotte's alter ego, like the person she deeply wanted to be and she portrayed that person through a book. Charlotte obviously believed in equal rights between men and women, she shows this by having Jane talk back to men several times throughout the book. For example, St. John asked Jane to marry him and she refused many times and even said " I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it". (Chapter 34 Page 598)
Charlotte Bronte writes from the perspective of Jane,which would be in first person perspective. In this time it was not politically correct for women to be equal to men. However, Charlotte writes as though this were not the case. Jane always speaks her mind when something is wrong, whether it be a man or a women who she is correcting . For example, when Janes cousin John smacks her, she gets in trouble and tries to tell her aunt Mrs. Reed that it was John's fault not hers. She says he is "like a murderer". She is punished for acting as if she was John's equal. (Chapter 1, pg 15-17)
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Modern Library,2000. Print.
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