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During Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre, the protagonist struggles at a young age with the meaning of life, conformity, justice and death. Throughout each phase of this learning experience Jane is confronted with Religion and differing Christian beliefs that pervailed at the time the novel was written in 1847. In particular, Bronte uses various characters to personify religion in her time. Early readers saw Bronte as attacking the Church. Jane’s experiences at the Lowood …

…whilst still in the process of forming her own opinions about life, valiantly declares: “I must resist those who punish me unjustly.”(68) Jane is determined to find her Heaven on Earth. Bronte paints a despondent picture of the role concerning religion in the mid nineteenth century. Very controversial at the time of printing, today the novel is revered as a genuine and personal piece of literature displaying the prejudices, persecution and injustices of that time.