Jane Eyre review

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is a passionately written tale of a real and extraordinary soul. As the protagonist of the novel, Jane is beautifully human, exquisitely flawed, and yet truly noble. Born into an unloving world, with rejection and anger at every corner, Jane is forced to battle against the constraints of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order that circumscribe her life. In reading this novel, I found the …

…is Jane Eyre a love story; underneath it is marked by a stark realism and a pervasive sense of eternal misery. Never considering myself a romance-book lover, I found pleasure in finding that the novel actually incorporates all genres, from romance to suspense, mystery to drama. A narrative brimming with repressed emotion and dark secrets, Bronte’s Jane Eyre explores the idea of social constraints and the powers of the heart needed to break them.