1. Joel Koshy Jeff Guidry Josh Wilson John Nazareno
What makes a lady?
Joel Koshy
Jeff Guidry
Josh Wilson
John Nazareno

2. The Victorian Era’s view on what makes a lady
Submissive
Quiet
Must make themselves attractive
Bear children to provide heirs
Marry wealthy men
Stay at home wives

3. Women during the Victorian Era
During the Victorian Era women were looked as inferior beings when compared to men
“’What do you want?’ I asked with awkward diffidence . ‘Say, ‘what do you want, Master Reed,’” was the answer.” ( Bronte 4).
Women were expected to be submissive to husbands and expected to bear and raise children

4. Women during the Victorian Era (Cont.)
Women were expected to be attractive, they would use this attractiveness to marry into a wealthy family.
This determined a women’s status in society
“Appearances would warrant that conclusion; and no doubt…they will be a superlatively happy pair. He must love such a handsome, noble, witty, accomplished lady; and probably she loves him, or, if not his person, at least his purse” (Bronte 213).

6. What makes a lady? In today’s society
Elegant
Thoughtful
Caring
Intelligent
Comforting
Child- bearing
Supporting

7. Modern society’s view on what makes a lady
Today’s women have equal rights to that of men in western society
In a family, men and women support the family and are both in the workforce
Women have freedom of expression in what they say and do

8. Jane Eyre’s representation as a woman in the novel
Jane stands out in the novel because she contrasts the typical Victorian lady
She is independent and stands up to the injustices done to her.
“I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed…” (p.33).

9. Jane Eyre’s representation as a woman in the novel
Jane longs to express feelings throughout the novel and to achieve freedom from society’s hold.
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you” (p.272).

10. Other women in the novel
Helen Burns and Miss Temple are examples of women in modern society because they are independent.
Blanche Ingram and Georgiana Reed are examples of Victorian age women, who were physically attractive planned to marry wealthy men.

12. Citation
"Women in the Victorian Era." Women in the Victorian Era. Blogger.com, Web. Web. 24 Oct <
Adamson, Anne. "Gender and the role of women in Jane Eyre." Crossref-it.info. Bible Society, n.d. Web. 24 Oct <
Brock, C.E.. "Lady asking her fiance's son if she can be his new mother.." CSL Vintage Cartoons. CSL, n.d. Web. 24 Oct <