Jane Eyre: A romance? Usually Jane Eyre is thought of as a romance novel, however in how many novels that are categorized as romance do you find a woman as the heroine? Jane has to go through many hardships in her life to accomplish the tasks that would ultimately make this story out to be a “typical romance”. In order to consider this novel a “romance” one would have to be able to look past …showed first 75 words of 971 total…

…showed last 75 words of 971 total…find on supermarket shelves today. Yet to most is considered a romance. As a reader of this novel it is hard to classify Jane Eyre with the books that have Fabio and other scantily clad men adorning the covers. Jane Eyre is a classic, a book that has captivated readers for over a hundred years, and is not likely to be found among supermarket shelves next to a story of heaving breasts and muscular men.