Two "Immoral" Ladies in the Kaleidoscope of Victorian Age—Comparison of Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre and Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair

Jane Eyre and Vanity Fair are both masterpieces in the late 1840s in English literature. The two “immoral” female images, Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre and Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, are “rebellious” women against Victorian ideals, but there still exist differences between them.

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