The Universality of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Although Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre was published almost 150 years ago, it portrays feelings that people today can recognize. Since the nineteenth century, cities are larger, homes and businesses are more modernized, more violence occurs, and in general the whole of society is completely different, but what has not changed is the way people feel. The only difference is the experience or event that causes the emotion. We …showed first 75 words of 1288 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1288 total…for good health, but universally the "things" people search for lead them to happiness. Jane's yearning for happiness is an identifiable feeling for any person of any century. Because we are all human, we have all felt as Jane does at some point in our life, and for this reason Jane Eyre is not merely a classic novel our English teachers make us read; it is a paragon to our own journey of growing up.