Jane Eyre could never be described as a victim

The Guardian wonders whether sexual violence is being 'trivialised in ballet'. The piece ends with this:

The solution is obviously for the artform to get its collective act together and break this narrative bind, yet the trend may not be radically reversed until ballet starts hiring more women as choreographers. Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre (created for Northern Ballet) and Annaballe Lopez Ochoa’s portrayal of Frida Kahlo for ENB are both recent works that feature suffering heroines; yet the spirited, cussed imaginative women that appeared on stage could never be described as victims and, quite possibly, could not have been choreographed by men. (Judith Mackrell)

Clash features singer Vera's new song, Nobody Else, which he describes as follows:

“Lyrically, 'Nobody Else' is a tribute to the Caribbean novel Wide Sargasso Sea by the Creole writer, Jean Rhys. The novel is a response to Brontë’s Jane Eyre, in which the landowner keeps his Jamaican wife locked up in the attic, allegedly because she is mad. Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of the “mad woman of the attic” and with this cool tone of tristesse, the book describes the wickedness, the Jamaican landscape and the eternal drinking of rum.” (Robin Murray)

Business Green makes an interesting point:

Through literature and history and art, as well as through geography and science and economics, there are ways to highlight how the environment shapes the world we live in.
We are well aware of the economic reading of the classics. How Jane Eyre or Oliver Twist or the Merchant of Venice are shaped by the economic fault lines they reflect, but there are environmental interpretations available as well. (James Murray)