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Charlotte Bronte's timeless classic, Jane Eyre, is a coming of age story where the title character of the novel, Jane undergoes transformation in her life as well as in her character. Most importantly, it depicts how the Dominant, Emergent and the Residual Ideologies contribute in the shaping of a culture and how this in turn affects the growth of an individual. Raymond Williams in his essay titled Marxism and Literature talks about a concept known as the Dominant, Residual and Emergent. Raymond Williams who was a Marxist critic, analyses the dynamics of cultural change whose theoretical model is based on an assumption of society being in a state of constant cultural change and negotiation. Emergent Culture refers to the new ways of doing which go against the Dominant Culture and may sometimes overpower the Dominant Culture. Thus, this paper is going to propose how the Dominant, Residual and Emergent Ideologies during the Victorian Era, governs throughout the novel and thus being considered as a bildungsroman novel, the new emerging ideals like women as an independent identity and the emerging ideals of religion in contrast to the prevailing dominant ideology of religion overpowers the dominant notion of religion as an orthodox practice prevalent during the Victorian Era.