How meaning is created in Jane Eyre

In the mid eighteen hundreds, Charlotte Bronte created a classic: Jane Eyre. It was in this Victorian era that she designed the language, structure and content of the novel to convey messages, that she thought, were of importance to her audience. In the present post-modern era where readings are an essential approach to interpreting texts, such as Jane Eyre, meaning is provisional. Charlotte Bronte had a construction of meaning around Jane Eyre, just as the individual reader has, determined by their context. The textual integrity of Jane Eyre is highlighted when the discourses of this text are explored and examined. They are appreciated to the fullest extent after a deduction of Charlotte Bronte’s positioning of her audience is understood. The reader is positioned to consider the social injustice of women, to consider the value of traditional practises in a changing society, and to consider the episodic search for belonging. Charlotte Bronte’s use of highly emotive and descri...