fact as little did I love them Disrespect Attitude In the Victorian period women were treated disrespectfully The Lowood School is a sign of such an attitude Lowood School is an institution where the orphan female children study Jane and her friend Helen Burns are treated disrespectfully Mr Brocklehurst is the cruel and hypocritical master of the Lowood School He hypocritically supports Christian morals but steals from the school's funds So she desired liberty and prayed to God to grant her liberty I desired liberty for liberty I gasped for liberty I uttered a prayer it seemed scattered on the mind then faintly blowing Pleasurable Subject Almost all Victorian novels support the minor position of women in society Victorian people regarded women as a source of pleasure Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles reveals the exact condition of women In the novel Jane Eyer we notice that Mr Rochester is a married man Despite having a wife he keeps women and falls in love with Jane Jane's student Adele Varens is the daughter of the French opera singer and dancer Celine Varens with whom Mr Rochester had a long relationship From this discussion we can clearly understand that in Victorian society women were considered the subject of men's pleasure and childbearing Gender Roles In the novel Jane passionately expresses her dissatisfaction with the traditional and constricting gender roles imposed on women She argues that women are just as capable of feeling and needing intellectual and emotional inspiration as men Jane s words reflect early feminist themes as she challenges the societal standards that limit women to domestic tasks like cooking and sewing or restrict their roles to playing music and doing embroidery Women are supposed to be very calm generally but women feel just as men feel and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings to playing on the piano and embroidering bags Jane Eyre Chapter Cynical Attitude toward Women Jane Eyre is an anti-romantic novel that critically represents the cynical attitude towards women Mrs Reed and Mr Brocklehurst are expressions of the cynicism of Victorian society The novel tells Jane's quest for independence autonomy and equality Charlotte Bronte voices against the Victorian inequality toward women through this narrative Even Bronte published this novel initially under her male disguise name Currer Bell Inequality The novel underlines the gender inequality of the time particularly in the treatment of women Women like Bertha Mason Mr Rochester s first wife were often locked away when they did not conform to societal standards Jane s journey to self-discovery and empowerment represents a feminist perspective Her denial of being restricted to traditional female roles and her pursuit of personal growth and fulfillment challenge the limitations placed on women in her era Overall we can summarize Charlotte's experience of being a Victorian woman through her powerful feminist novel Jane Eyre