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This post is aimed to describe the patriarchy in Jane Eyre, a novel by Charlotte Bronte. Patriarchy, and gender politics in Jane Eyre (Patriarchy in Jane Eyre) The Victorian era was often marked by patriarchal domination. The gender roles during this era were more sharply defined than any time in the history so much so that even the very author of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte too had to succumb herself to this domination. (Patriarchy in Jane Eyre) Charlotte Bronte originally published Jane Eyre and all her works under the male pseudonym of Currer Bell because during the Victorian era women writers were judged too softly and Bronte did not want her audiences to judge her work on basis of her being a woman. Jane Eyre, one of the most iconic works of Victorian literature the struggle of women during that era very prominently in a patriarchal society, which can be considered ahead of Bronte’s time. Through the character of Jane, the female protagonist of the novel, Bronte, por...