Victorian Mores of Jane Eyre
Victorian mores are the unspoken rules known and observed by society. In the eighteen-hundreds several mores were very important including justice, Christianity, high standards of honesty and morality, and women’s roles. All good people are part of a family, a Christian family and women are to serve men as they stand unequal to them. Marriage is simply a tool to gain more money and connections, and only people of the same social class are worthy of each other. Whichever social class someone is born into they remain in unless of course they are rich or beautiful, the poor and plain are simply there to be the butlers, maids and governesses of those who are high up. Several of these mores are demonstrated and contradicted in Charlotte Bronte’s 1847 masterpiece Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is the life story of a young heroin that faces incredible odds and terrible situations and still manages to follow her heart and morals through an exciting life that leads her to a blissful ending. Charlotte Bronte uses her narrative to display several of the Victorian mores and demonstrate why they’re important, and alternately disprove the significance of others. One of the most important and widely accepted mores of the Victorian era is Christianity. Everyone is expected to believe in Christ and follow the precedents he has set throughout their life. Bronte exhibits this when Jane has been traveling through the woods and surrounding towns of Moor house for several days and believes she is going to meet her demise. Jane falls to the ground and utters, ‘“I can but die,’ I [say], ‘and I believe in God. Let me try to wait His will in silence”’ (Bronte 387). Jane is a good Christian and has always believed in God and done her best to obey his rules. For believing in him Jane believes she shall be saved in death, for God shall gladly accept all Christians into the afterlife. Then Bronte proves how true this belief is. After voicing her belief in God, Jane is saved from a lonely death by St.