Jane Eyre Imperialism

The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys were produced at different times in history. Indeed, they were created in different centuries and depicted extensively divergent political, social and cultural setting. Despite their differences, the two novels can be compared in the presentation of female otherness, childhood, and the elements that concern adulthood. Indeed, these aspects have been depicted as threatening the female other in the society. The female other has been perceived as an unfathomable force that is demonic in nature but respects these enigmatic threatening characters. The female other has been portrayed as intensely alienated while grows knowing that their actions are subject to ridicule, rumor,

It is flawless that it is impossible to interpret some of these 19th-century texts without coming across concepts of imperialism. The English, the social system used widely in England and the entire English community placed the male gender on a social platform that disregarded any advancement of the female sex (Pui-Lan). The ruling class made the authority and were not to be challenged, prompting them to put the woman in her place, considering her as physical property belonging to men and could be possessed. Although women had their ideologies and independent thoughts, they were to be represented by their men. Bronte in Jane Eyre gives a critical evaluation and contributing statements on the facts about female Other in the form of oppression and

Culture plays a huge role in this part because, in any society, culture overrules some of the most popular practices by Englishmen on their women. The woman captured in Jane Eyre adopted to cultural systems that placed her in the house and never allowed her to grow. From Bronte’s novel, it seemed like a normal, acceptable practice during these times. However, in responding to this, Rhys in Wide Sargasso Sea argues that the woman, through culture had better things to do, better ways to engage her brain and keep working (Thorpe). It is as if Rhys refuses to perceive the possibility of the existence of the Victorian society where the woman was the colonized Other and oppressed Other, kept away from men’s issues and also handled as the property of