Jane Eyre, By Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf And Jamaica Kincaid

Women throughout the decades have strived for political, economic and social equality to men. Feminism isn’t a new concept, but one that has redefined the way people perceive women. Literature has allowed women share their believes and bestow them with stories and knowledge of what it was like to be a women centuries ago. Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf and Jamaica Kincaid are three women authors who have popular books that give awareness of how women are treated in current and past years. All three authors represent women in a poor social class, who all strive for empowerment to rise against the daily struggle of being underneath men. Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre, Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own and Jamaica Kincaid wrote Dark

Charlotte Brontë didn’t always write under her own name. She lived during the 1800’s so being a women writer was uncommon. The name she went by was Currer Bell, her identity was eventually revealed when her book Jane Eyre reached major success. There were many speculations during the time that main character Jane Eyre was very similar to Charlotte. Charlotte indeed used the character Jane to relate to experiences of her own. According to the book Vacancy: Mental Emptiness in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel it is suggested that Victorian writers unconsciously created characters to depict there very own lives and experiences they have been through. This book proposes how individual experiences subjectivity in an emotionally fraught social existence. Meaning Charlotte Brontë wrote to fill the emptiness she felt in society. This emptiness consisted of being seen as weak and secondary to men. Charlotte’s life she lived creates this character Jane, who alone is symbolic in her own because she represents women in society as a whole. Jane’s character marries someone above her own social class. Brontë embodies hope in those women who see no escape from there own class. This one book opens doors for women to push for their own social advancement, whether they marry a rich man or create one on their

Feminist criticism is the study of literature that is written by women. There are different arguments that arise from the feminist criticism in the way they challenge traditional ideas about women. Some believe women must take a feminist approach in the way they write. Others say that it doesn’t matter what style a women takes in writing men and women will always be valued differently. An important argument that How to Analyze the Works of Virginia Woolf makes is when Woolf’s narrator is in the British Museum. She is going through some articles and realizes that all articles written about women are by men. In this novel it is suggested that men dictated the way women are perceived by society. The reason they dictate it are men are the only ones who have the authority to publish books. They ultimately have the power to represent women in any way they want. This proves that literature is not objective but is biased by the male perspective. Another argument we see in How to Analyze the Works of Virginia Woolf talks about how Woolf points out that entering the writing profession as a woman has always had it obstacles. Woolf creates two characters Judith and William Shakespeare. Woolf says that even if Judith were just as good as a writer as William, she would still not be permitted to write. This is because she would have had no education and