Confined Women

"but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brother do; they suffer from too rigid a constraint" (111)

In this passage Bronte rants about her belief that men and women are equal. She claims that women are constrained by domestic tasks and their homes. She believes they need to be allowed to venture and pursue accomplishments such as men do. Bertha Marshal is an example of the consequence constraint has on women. Bertha is kept up in the attic and in turn tries to kill her husband and Jane and successfully kills herself.