When Jane Eyre was published, it was popularly believed that women did not have rich inner lives. Based on these excerpts, do you believe this book contradicts that notion? If so, how? Explain your answer.

Jane Eyre countered this opinion that the women had less inner life by using the thoughts of the titular character for narration throughout.

Explanation:

Jane Eyre is one the early proponents of the psychological novel in which much of the action of the book takes place in the mind of the character and not through the plot.

Jane Eyre grows with her angst and her intellect in the novel as the events in her life shape her thoughts and this is recorded by the author in great detail.

She turns the public opinion of the thoughtless nature of women by showing the rich and complex inner life of a character in the book and showing through her the repressed thoughts of the women.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.

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