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asdfLike Milton, Bronte seems to have offered a way of thinking about the questions of power and powerlessness, justice and injustice that concerned Kincaid from an early age. By nine she was re]fusing to stand up at the refrain, "God Save Our King," and hated "Rule, Britannia," with its refrain, "Britons never ever shall be slaves," reasoning that "we weren't Britons and that we were slaves" (Cudjoe 397). For the young Kincaid, as for others, Bronte's work was "an epic of self-determination, the painful acquisition of identity, of independence" (Boumelha 60); indeed, Bronte's heroine views herself as a "rebel slave" (Jane Eyre 44) as she struggles against the class system that oppresses an orphaned and penniless female. Even in its own day Bronte's work was seen as rebellious; when Jane Eyre was published in 1847 reviewers found it shockingly radical, and Bronte was described as "soured, coarse and grumbling; an alien from society and amenable to none of its laws." Her heroine was seen as "proud and ungrateful," and Victorian critics were horrified by her anger (Gilbert 337-38).
Approximate Word count = 552
Approximate Pages = 2.2
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