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Jane Eyre was published over 100 years ago, and it still shows the same feeling women have today. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, cities are bigger, home and businesses are more modified, and in general the society is different, but the thing that has not changed is the way women feel. Women who live now have felt the same feelings that Jane experiences: isolation- the first couple of weeks at a new location, ie) school, neighbourhood; pain- a family member dies; loneliness- your best friend in the whole entire world moves to the other end of the country. Because Jane shows her problems as she grows older, women can relate. Jane begins her journey of growing up Gateshead, where women can identify her because or our own childhood. When John Reed (Jane’s cousin) says to Jane, “You have no business to take our books; you are a dependant, mamma says, you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentleman’s children like us, and eat the same meals we do, and wear clothes at our mamma’s expense” (p.12).
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