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Written by Charlotte Brontë "Jane Eyre"is hailed by many as the first work where a female character truly portrays a heroine. The novel is also seen as the perfect courtship work. It tells the highly cliché story of what happens of "boy meets girl." While the novel also creates a woman who has been proclaimed a mold breaker by many, it does come with a dark side. The main character, Jane constantly asserts her independence, however it does not come cheap. Along with a secondary criticism, we will come to see Jane as an extremist, and by using the aid of "Wide Sargasso Sea" we will also discover that the cost of any obsession will inevitably consume it's host leaving them as nothing more than a ghost of the being they strived so hard to be.
Jane is a young girl who is being brought up by a wealthy aunt, who does not particularly care for her ‘extra baggage.' It is only through a lower class servant that Jane finds any sense of kindness while living with her cruel family......

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