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Victorian Literature, Culture, and Power, Three Perspectives, Jane Eyre is…

- - - - However, these views were viewed as an ideal often only achieved by middle class and aristocratic families, rather than a widespread norm, “To be bored was the privilege of wives and daughters in upper and middle class homes, establishments in which feminine idleness was treasured as a status symbol”
- - - - This continues into her move from the countryside to the industrialized town of Milton, where she sets aside her own unstable social class to advocate for the rights of workers.
        
        However, the resolve of the novel, as well as the ideals backed by the mill owner Thornton, fall under the category of bourgeois reformism. After the workers' strike, Thornton's resolve is to make enough small changes to the working conditions to satisfy the working class, without disrupting the system that keeps him in power, and in turn, keeps his workers oppressed.