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Jane Eyre - Themes Overview

Themes are ideas that run all the way through a literary text. They are great to explore because you can analyse the writer's intentions: what have they done? Why? What are they trying to make the reader think and feel? This allows your analysis to be extended and developed, allowing you to write comprehensively about a literary text.

Themes of Jane Eyre, showing a heart split into two sections representing love/hate, unbalanced scales representing social class, and cupped hands freeing a butterfly to symbolise personal discovery

In Jane Eyre there are many themes to analyse. Here's three main ones:

  • love and hate
  • social class
  • personal discovery

Song: Themes in Jane Eyre