International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research

E-ISSN: 2582-2160   •   Impact Factor: 9.24

A Widely Indexed Open Access Peer Reviewed Multidisciplinary Bi-monthly Scholarly International Journal

Call for Paper Volume 8, Issue 3 (May-June 2026) Submit your research before last 3 days of June to publish your research paper in the issue of May-June.
Submit Research Paper Join as a Reviewer

Plagiarism is checked by the leading plagiarism checker TurnItIn

Call for Paper

Volume 8 Issue 3
May-June 2026

Submit your research paper

Indexing Partners
Academia Advanced Sciences Index Bielefeld Academic Search Engine CiteSeer DRJI Google Scholar Independent Search Engine & Directory Network ISI (International Scientific Indexing) Issuu Mendeley Research Networks
RefSeek ResearcherId - Thomson Reuters ResearchGate Scirus Scribd Semantic Scholar UTeM - Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka Wiki for Call for Papers WorldCat Zenodo

Social Norms and Challenges Faced by Women in the Selected Works of Charlotte Brontë

Author(s) Vidha Garg, Dr. Hitkaran Singh Ranawat
Country India
Abstract This research paper undertakes a critical analysis of the social norms and challenges faced by women as depicted in three major novels by Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (1847), The Professor (published posthumously, 1857), and Villette (1853). Set against the backdrop of Victorian England and nineteenth-century Belgium, Brontë's fiction interrogates the intersecting constraints of gender, class, and patriarchal ideology that circumscribed women's lives. Through her protagonists—Jane Eyre, Frances Henri, and Lucy Snowe—Brontë examines how social conditioning, economic dependence, surveillance, and the denial of intellectual agency shaped women's identities and opportunities. The study argues that Brontë's works constitute a sustained feminist critique of Victorian social structures, articulating a vision of female autonomy grounded in moral integrity, education, and self-respect. By positioning her heroines as agents who resist as well as negotiate oppressive norms, Brontë challenges the ideological frameworks that reduced women to passive objects of domesticity and male authority. The paper employs feminist literary theory alongside close textual analysis to reveal how Brontë's narrative strategies—including first-person voice, psychological depth, and symbolic imagery—serve to expose and contest the gendered realities of her era.
Keywords Charlotte Brontë, Victorian women, feminist literary criticism, patriarchy, female agency, social norms, Jane Eyre, The Professor, Villette, gender and class.
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-06-02
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i03.80174
View / Download PDF File

Share this



E-ISSN 2582-2160
CrossRef

CrossRef DOI is assigned to each research paper published in our journal.

IJFMR DOI prefix is
10.36948/ijfmr

Downloads
Research Paper Format Copyright Permission Form and Undertaking Form Cover Page Vol 8 Isu 3Cover Page Vol 8 Isu 2Cover Page Vol 8 Isu 2

All research papers published on this website are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, and all rights belong to their respective authors/researchers.

CC-BY-SA Open Access

About IJFMR
Fees & Payment
Current Issue
Publication Archive 		Submit Research Paper
Track Submission Status
Publication Guidelines
Publication Ethics
Peer Review & Plagiarism 		Join as a Reviewer
Editors & Reviewers
Reviewer Referral Program
Get Reviewer Membership Certi. 		Website/Journal Policies
Usage Policy
Content Policies
Privacy Policy
Contact Us +91-9687-828-838 editor@ijfmr.com
Powered by Sky Research Publication and Journals