Jane Eyre Research Task 3:

Research Task 3:

1.    The question woman had, was their concern of the people who were confused about the women’s place in the society in the Middle Victorian era. Suddenly women had rights and men struggled to figure out what the women now wanted, for woman now had the opportunity to get educated and have their own property. Men struggled to accept that woman suddenly had the same rights as them. Thanks to the feminist woman had been given a chance in life; they ensured that woman and men now had the same opportunities and rights. The earlier year’s woman was in no position to divorce her husband, they were often manipulated and abused, but thanks to the new era woman could find their way out of a bad marriage. Woman no longer felt entrapped and this made the society wondering if this was such a great idea.

2.     In chapter 10, Jane is surprised by the way she gets treated. When she gets there she gets treated like a guest in the house, and it wasn’t the way she expected it to be like, usually governess were treated like the middle class people. For Jane this didn’t feel right, she found a few books, but none of them caught her eye, for none of them were academically stimulating. In chapter 16 Jane was asked to draw a picture of her, without softening the poorness and life as a governess. When reading further in chapter 17 one see how the high class ladies made their views of a governess clear. They thought a governess was incompetent, but even though they had that image they still hired one to raise their children. The ladies preferred not to be associated with a governess, for they had to work for their money and woman then did not work at all. The ladies felt that a governess was part of the working class but lived like middle class people.

3.    A governess came from the working class, but they lived and acted like the middle class, and this narrowed the difference between the working and middle class people and therefore became a threat. The governess was appointed to teach the children good values and by that one realize that the governess could not have bad values themselves. A governess was in no position to marry the middle class, because they often worked for them, they could not marry the servant, because the servant was even lower than them. The governess lived the life of a middle class person, she raised their children but could not be called one, usually all the governesses were pure.