Charlotte Bronte: Rewriting the female character

My study will probe Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette, to discover Charlotte Bronte's perception of real women---their desires, needs, restrictions, and resistance to those restrictions placed upon them---and, thus, to get a clearer awareness of the genuine Victorian female. Bronte deliberately rejected the artificial and damaging misrepresentations of the female in many male-authored texts---as the angelic ideal or "temptresses, terrors, or monsters "---and rewrote females in her own novels as complex characters, publishing under a masculine pseudonym in the hope that they would be accepted by the reader as valid interpretations of the authentic woman. Bronte awakens the female character to a realistic existence wherein she exhibits power, speaks with new-founded authority, and is finally heard. She reveals that male-designed-deprivations---inferior education, inferior job and professional opportunities, and inferior protection under the law---gave the appearance of an intrinsic "inferiority" in the female where none existed.