How did the time period of the book Jane Eyre affect the plot and the characters?

The time period of the novel greatly affects the plot of Jane Eyre. Throughout the story, Jane suffers with the expectations of women and marriage in Victorian society. Women were expected to beautiful, graceful, and subservient, which were all things that Jane was not. She was plain and fiercely independent, and in the end, was better than beautiful women, like Blanche.