"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte and "Vanity Fair" by William Makepiece Thackery.

Aviva Raskin Final Draft ~1500 words (times new roman double spaced extended!) Comparative essay between Jane Eyre and Vanity Fair The two novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackery are two characteristic Victorian novels. They both show characters that are distinctly the opposites of each other, even though they come from nearly the same background. The two heroines show the same type of fiery mettle and backbone, but do not …showed first 75 words of 2426 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2426 total…promised to give her as many guineas as she was years old--she begged the old gentleman to give the money to dear Rebecca, who must want it, while she lacked for nothing." This passage continuation shows that even the servants of the aristocrats looked down upon this lowly governess, it is a stereotype that Jane Eyre also runs into, but she refuses all gifts from the kindly aristocrats therefore refuting the stereotype to the maximum.