In both The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House and Jane Eyre the authors focuses on Feminist issues. Audre Lorde and Charlotte Brontë speaks on empowering women of different social classes, race, gender and sexuality.
In the article, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, by Audre Lorde
states: “Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference — those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older — know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths.” Lorde states that you should learn how to take your differences and make them strength. Throughout the text Eyre did just that.
The example above was similar to a scene in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë . Eyre was known for her courage and standing up for herself, but because she was a woman, not to mention a poor woman it was considered unacceptable. However, she refused to keep quiet and accept her social status as a poor orphan. For instance in the reading Jane Eyre, Eyre spoked out and said, “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much soul as you and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you” …Do you think I am an automaton? a machine without feelings?…Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong. I have as much soul as you,and full as much heart…I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal, as we are.”
Eyre felt the need to speak out whenever she was poorly treated even if that meant defying the rules.