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Hi, I need help with essay on Women, Work and Worthiness in Jane Eyre. Paper must be at least 1000 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

Charlotte Bronte has lauded the concept of working women and their worthiness in many places in afore stated work and Jane Eyre the protagonist, in many ways, is an illustration of this. This essay shall argue that the character of the aristocratic Blanche Ingram has been portrayed despicably to contrast sharply with the honest, self-reliant, and fiercely independent though poor Jane Eyre, revealing the author’s belief in work’s potential to elevate the worthiness of women beyond class prejudices. The essay shall also cite the positive portrayal of Diana and Mary Rivers whose attitude to work and economic independence were similar to Jane Eyre’s as further evidence to support the argument.

Jane Eyre and Blanche Ingram

The author has carefully chosen the vocation of the protagonist as a governess. It implies imperatively, the high intellectual capacity – as one who has knowledge of the three R’s. Far from being respectable, however, it was looked down upon, because it equated the governess to any other paid servant. The poor economic condition and social status served to worsen their plight as pointed to by Wells (in www. Victorianweb.org), “Brontë, by choosing the profession of governess for Jane, allowed her audience to see life from both the servant's point of view and the aristocracy's point of view by means of a critical, cultured, and articulate character.” "

Contrast this with the character of Blanche Ingram. rich aristocrat, dark and majestic-looking (p.442-3) lady equestrian (p. 431), who could ride well by the side of Mr. Rochester. But, she is haughty and "will suffer no competitor near the throne" (p.460). she was used to leisure and playing "charades" (466-8). and furthermore, she was not "good and noble" or endowed with "force, fervor, kindness and sense" (p. 477). Furthermore, she is illustrated as being after Rochester's wealth. she flirted with Rochester even though she had no love for him and cold-shouldered him the moment he was rumored to be not-so-wealthy (p. 457).

Women and Work

Bronte considers work as a tool to elevate womanhood, to improve their worthiness. To convey her message, Jane Eyre is made her mouthpiece. Throughout the story, Jane Eyre accepts her impoverished state, but refuses to be intimidated by it. In the twelfth chapter, there is unmistakable evidence as to what the author has to say about women's emancipation and gendered division of labor. "women" according to her,

"need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do. they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer. and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." (Jane Eyre, p. 279-80)

She believes that the class, gender, and social prejudices against women can be shattered by the power of her economic, intellectual, and moral integrity, and independence.