Samarkand state institute of foreign languages English faculty II department of English Theory and Literature “Literature of countries with language learning”

The object of the investigation is Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre.

The subject of the investigation is the role of love in Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre.
The scientific novelty of the investigation includes the modern analysis of love in Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre.
Structure of the course paper consists of four parts - Introduction, Main part which is divided into two chapters, Conclusion, and References.

Chapter I. Being a female in Victorian England

1.1 Charlotte Bronte’s biography

As Charlotte gives a lot of attention to gender issues in her novels, it is convenient to take a better look at the life of female in Victorian times. Upper and middle class women were usually set apart from the commercial and intellectual world and the prosperity among tradesman was often accompanied by a separation of business from home, which absolutely detached women from the money-making world and responsibility leaving them with basically nothing left to do to occupy themselves – this concept of so called refinement basically prescribed that all women outside the working class should not be looking for any employment except in cases of extreme necessity.¹⁸ The only acceptable options for middle-class women in Victorian times were actually either marriage, dependence on the family patriarch or becoming a governess.¹⁹ The latter became the occupation of Charlotte Brontë and despite her hating this occupation, it also gave her lot of inspiration for her work.
Female frame of mind and role in society in general was something of significant interest to Charlotte Brontë, as she herself was a woman wanting to break through the limitations of her era. In this manner, Charlotte started a revolution of her own, by raising literary topics never used before in such extent, and which in her times were not entirely understood or accepted. In Victorian era, women were supposed to preside over the private, domestic spheres, whereas the public sphere belonged to men, even though through most of the nineteenth century it was a woman who sat on the English throne.^[11,3] The queen herself was, however, not supportive of women’s emancipation and even called women’s suffrage movement, which began as early as 1840, a ‘mad folly’ condemning women to r remain in the position of second class citizens.^[11,4]
Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816 as a third child of Irish Anglican clergyman of poor background, Patrick Brontë, and his Cornish wife Maria Brontë born Maria Branwell. Charlotte was born into the turbulent era of revolutions, scientific discoveries and changes in society but also into times of fixed and stern values, conventions, manners and morals of a long period of Queen Victoria’s reign known as the Victorian era. This era started in the 1830’s – the beginning is sometimes connected with 1832, i.e. the year of the First Reform Bill, but more often with 1837 when Victoria became queen in June and gave the whole epoch its name.² At the same time however, Brontë was also born in times of Romanticism when famous poets and novelists such as Byron, Keats, or Scott were still producing their works that greatly influenced Victorian literature and Brontë herself. Scottish novelist and historical writer Margaret Oliphant describes the change from Romantic to Victorian era in literature as “a period of transition, in which many great names were falling into silence, and the men who were destined to take their places were but slowly pushing to the front.”³ Among these “men” was also a great many deal of women, Charlotte Brontë included, however, her name is not mentioned in Mrs. Oliphant’s “Victorian Age of English literature”.
Mrs. Brontë died of cancer in September 1821, one year after the family moved from Hartshead to Haworth and after she gave birth to six children. Afterwards, as Patrick Brontë failed in his attempts to secure a new mother for his children, it was mainly their mother’s sister Elizabeth who came from Penzance to Haworth to look after all the children, and she stayed until her death in 1842. Elizabeth’s character is often described as severe and unmotherly and as she was a strict Calvinist, she is also blamed for Branwell’s and Anne’s ‘fear of damnation’, and of Charlotte’s ‘tinged’ view of the world as well.³⁹ Despite this fact, Elizabeth became a capable ruler of the house and she taught her nieces sewing, housekeeping and, most importantly, supported the independence of their minds although she never interfered with their teaching since this was the area of their father, Mr. Patrick Brontë.^[4,123]
In August 1824, Patrick sent Charlotte, Emily, Maria and Elizabeth to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Charlotte maintained that the school's poor conditions permanently affected her health and physical development, and hastened the deaths of Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815), who both died of tuberculosis in June 1825. After the deaths of his older daughters, Patrick removed Charlotte and Emily from the school.^[2,234] Charlotte used the school as the basis for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.
At home in Haworth Parsonage, Bronte acted as "the motherly friend and guardian of her younger sisters".^[3,65] 
Bronte was the last to die of all her siblings. She became pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.