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and Mrs palmer Lovell with their daughters Georgina and Christina" portrays feminine education. In the middle classes, education was provided by governesses and not by parents because it was a symbol of a social status. Girls had to be pretty and well-behaved. Here, they show their skill in dancing, they are graceful which were extremely important in the Victorian era. Women learnt to please society in order to give a good image of themselves and to find a husband. This gender inequality is also represented in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Charlotte Brontë was a 19th century writer. As an adult she worked as a governess and then became independent and determined to be a writer. There are some autobiographical elements in this story, Jane's background is similar to Charlotte's. So, in this novel you can find a quote from Jane who says " I am o Bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free Human being with an Independent will, which I now exert to leave you" with this quote Jane explains that she wants to be treated as equal to a man even though she is a woman. Indeed, she uses a metaphor in which the bird represents the woman and the net the rules imposed on women. Here, Mr Rochester blames Jane for not accepting the rules imposed on her as a woman. With this quote Jane is trying to throw light on the prejudices they face. Through Jane, Charlotte Brontë conveys a message about women's wish to set free and she herself remained free not to get married and to be independent as writer. We can therefore say from this first part that prejudices about women were essentially about their place in society. It is difficult to stop these prejudices because the only people who realize they exist are women themselves and they cannot speak out. The proof is that in order to make herself heard through writing, a woman had to take a man's name. The novel Jane Eyre was published under the male pseudonym Currer Bell because of that. Jane Eyre is a work that evokes, also prejudices concerning the poor. So now I'm going to focus on poverty. Having lived in poverty, Jane knows what it is like to be poor. So, Jane Eyre doesn't accept her modest social origins. She raises herself intellectually and does everything in her power to ensure a better future, in order to support herself economically and to work as a governess in a middle-class house under the authority of Mr Rochester. It is especially because of her love for Mr Rochester that we understand the problem of prejudice around social classes. Indeed, Charlotte Brontë describes the difficulty of a love affair when social differences are great and the whole society considers this improper. In fact, she denounces not only the burdens of Victorian society on women but also the social conventions that prevent personal development. Oliver Twist is also a novel that deals with poverty and orphans. The story tells of an orphan (Oliver), who was born in a workhouse. In London, Fagin trains the orphan boys how to steal for him in exchange of a roof over their heads "You've got to pick a pocket or two". Oliver Twist brings to light the cruel exploitation of very poor people and orphans. So we can say that this work throws light on the situation of people living in poverty and what they are forced to do to survive in addition to alert, about forced child labor. Now that we have dealt with prejudices concerning women, the poor and orphans we can study those concerning immigrants and foreigners. I will use the movie 12 angry men directed by Sydney Lumet in 1957. This film is about twelve men in charge of deciding whether or not an 18-year-old Hispanic boy is guilty of first- degree murder...of his father. The jury retires to discuss the seemingly unanimous verdict of guilty. After the first ballot, all vote guilty except juror n°8 the main character. Juror nº8 votes not guilty strictly because there is "reasonable doubt". After he expresses his wish to talk, Juror n°8 slowly convinces more and more jurors to hear his side of arguments, swaying them to believe the boy is not guilty. In the early discussion of the verdict, Juror 10 makes a small speech: "You're not going to tell me that we're supposed to believe this kid knowing what he is? Listen I've lived among them all my life you can't believe a word they say you know that. I mean, they're born liars." Juror 9 responds by saying, "Only an ignorant man can believe that" and that's the last we hear of Juror 10's prejudice for a while. Near the end of the movie Juror 10 complains about the incredibility of the accused based on his own personal prejudice. As Juror 10 gets carried away to the rest of the jury, they all turn away. They don't speak. Their silence is stronger than any word. This film shows how prejudices can lead people to put an innocent man in to prison. But this film also shows that it is possible to overcome prejudices. This type of prejudices can also be found towards immigrants, like in the cartoon I am about to tell about by Chappatte, published by the international herald tribune in 2009. We know that for years now Mexicans try to cross the border to have a better life in the US. So, this cartoon shows a Mexican man, standing in front of a guarded barbed-wire fence and there are two American guards scared of the Mexican man. This cartoon can be explained by the fact that a lot of Mexicans choose to immigrate to the US because they live in poverty with bad living conditions, they are unemployed so don't earn enough money. So, they immigrate to the US because they hope to improve their living conditions. However, the Americans don't want foreigners in their country because they feel that they are stealing their jobs. The Americans are frightened by them and their possible aggressiveness and criminality and the fact that they bring diseases when they leave their native countries. Conclusion: To finish with, I would say that prejudices are difficult to change for historical reasons but there has been an evolution in prejudices since the 19th century: women can vote and children are not allowed to work anymore However, despite hundreds of years of fighting against prejudices, there are still today wage differences between men and women and still prejudices against foreigners particularly immigrants when crimes are committed or when jobs are missing.