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read this excerpt from a research paper that argues that charlotte bronte was a pioneer of feminist literature. which sentence is an example of
evidence from a primary source?
charlotte bronte is a well-known novelist and poet. she is best known for her novel jane eyre. she was one of the few women in the victorian era
who pushed the boundaries and laid the groundwork for future feminists. charlotte bronte created a strong female character in her novel who voiced
the author's views on the status of women in society during the victorian era. through her character jane eyre, charlotte bronte created an ideal
female protagonist who refuses to submit to the rules set by the patriarchal society. for example, in the novel her character says, "women are
supposed to be very calm generally but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as
their brothers do, they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer" charlotte bronte's own
rebelliousness and intolerance toward any injustice to women is reflected in her character jane eyre.
the novel jane eyre also has the character of bertha mason who is not portrayed as a well-behaved woman typical of that era. she is a mad woman
living in an attic. many literary critics believe that the character of bertha mason reflects the atrocities and pressures on women in the victorian era.
though bertha mason is one of the antagonists of the novel, she shows how victorian society viewed and ridiculed women who were passionate
about something. this point is explained in the book the madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary
imagination by sandra gilbert and susan gubar.
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