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[entrospect]

Would you guys call Jane Eyre an antiheroine?

I'm reading this list of 10 ten antiheroines. I see Jane Eyre and I read the reasoning. While I agree she may have been an antiheroine in the age she was written. I don't think she'd be one now. Does she belong on the list? By today's standards Jane would definitely be a heroine.

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[carbonpaper]

Hmmm good question. I think you’re right, time makes her less of an antiheroine. But there are still many places where being somewhat independent of men is taboo.

The Brontes wrote very differently from others of their era, I basically mean Jane Austen. Austen is my fave but I love the Brontes because they wrote about the hard times and imperfect people.

[entrospect]

That's true, I didn't think of it that way.

I like Jane Austen as well and I'm a fan of her. But I tend to prefer Charlotte Bronte for the rawness of her work. It's just very emotional and that's something I gravitate towards.

[carbonpaper]

I can understand that.

[meringues]

I definitely didn't get the impression, but perhaps in the time period she first appeared in she would have been? Catherine of Wuthering Heights, Anna Karenina, and Lady MacBeth are all way more antiheroine-like than I'd say Jane Eyre is.

[entrospect]

Yeah, I don't really see Jane as an anti-heroine, but like in the time, she was written perhaps she would have been.