Jane Eyre is a novel that represents critique of Victorian age assumptions about social classes and gender issues. In the nineteenth-century there was a belief that women and men belong in "separate spheres," each with its own responsibilities. The women were expected to devote her self to the repetitive tasks of domestic labor and to minister to the needs of others while the men work and brought money. Charlotte Bronte tries in her novel to …showed first 75 words of 587 total…

…showed last 75 words of 587 total…is austere and ambitious. St.John represents the religious man who dies while doing his duty. When Jane refuses his proposal that was because he wanted her to sacrifice her independence and just be as a useful tool to him. In this novel the author explore the fine line between the conventional nineteenth century path of marriage and subjection to male authority against the culturally subversive path of feminine independence. <Tab/>