The impact that education has in the nineteenth-century society through the protagonists of the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte and the possible effects in the contemporary society Cover Image

The impact that education has in the nineteenth-century society through the protagonists of the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte and the possible effects in the contemporary society
The impact that education has in the nineteenth-century society through the protagonists of the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte and the possible effects in the contemporary society

Author(s): Anamaria Hariuc
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, School education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Association of Social and Educational Innovation (ASEI)
Keywords: educational impact; governess; education; society; socio-educational effects;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a comparative study and deals with the impact of two Victorian governesses of the nineteenth-century in then-society and the possible effects preserved and reflected in the society of our century. In the course of the scientific paper, a comparison will be made between the two protagonists, Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey respectively, addressing the impact of education received both within the family and in the institutions through which the two pass, but also the education that each assigns it from the examples that make their way into their lives, it has on them and the people around them, and how this impact is transposed into Victorian society by each of them. The purpose of this is to reflect the educational values of the two characters and to investigate the possible repercussions they have had on the society of then and of today.

  • Issue Year: 4/2017
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 50-61
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English