Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte, The House Of Mirth By Edith Wharton

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All throughout high school my English teachers would assign us to read a variety of novels and passages with the theme pertaining to distress or love. This made me become more familiar of pieces of literature like Jane Eyre from Charlotte Bronte, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and poems like What thing is love from George Peele. Each of their styles of writing were different, but despite their prominent differences I also began to realize their similarities the more that I was exposed to them. I noticed that a common component that these authors had was that they were trying to express what it meant to be in love to them. It was almost like they were making an effort to come up with a definition for love. In Jane Eyre we get introduced

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