Jane Eyre/ Role of Women

A traditional woman of Victorian Society was seen as a caring mother and a loving wife. She was born to give and to love. Often, the upper-class women were taught languages and the arts; this made them very well rounded and appealing to the gentlemen. In Jane Eyre, the women characters that are encountered have both traditional and non-traditional characteristics of the Victorian Society. Eliza and Georgiana Reed were two attractive, traditional young ladies of …

…Thornfield and jumps to her death from the top of the house. In conclusion, the role of women in Victorian society was quite demanding. Only the wealthy were able to maintain what was considered to be traditional and proper. All of the others were deemed untraditional, unusual and out of the ordinary. They were not welcomed in society. Ultimately, the traditional women prevailed as the wives of the gentlemen and the mothers of their children.