Plead For Me Analysis

Emily Brontё spent most of her life isolated within the countryside village of Haworth, where Brontё experienced the brevity of life at a very young age. Her mother’s death and those of her family that followed influenced her fascination with mortality. The theme of religious doubt and uncertainty the forefront that inspired her works, including the poem “Plead for Me.” Within the poem, Brontё addresses the topic of morality as the conflict between religion and reason. Brontё’s speaker then attempts to find an ultimatum for this conflict, in the hope that their religious doubts can be solved. Therefore, the uncertainty of religion amongst the emergence of new ideas, used as reason within Brontё’s poem, is exposed through the speaker in “Plead for Me.”

Brontё’s speaker in “Plead for Me” expresses her concern with mortality by her religious doubts. The conflict of reason and religion play a role in the speaker’s doubts because reason questions the speaker’s original ideas of religion by providing a good moral standing for them. The lines within the first stanza, “When Reason…/ is mocking my overthrow,” show how reason is in conflict with the religious path Brontё’s speaker has chosen (2). …show more content…
Brontё’s speaker within the poem constantly battles between choosing religion over reason, as they continue to be in conflict throughout the poem. The irony of the angel’s assertion that Brontё’s speaker should not abandon reason shows this clash, for the irony lies in the fact that angels are usually associated with religion. Yet, the angel pushes towards reason. Furthermore, the speaker describes Beings Divine, a symbol of religion, to expose the uncertainties of religion still present, though Brontё’s speaker attempts to accept it. Therefore, “Plead for Me” is a prime example of religious doubt and uncertainty within the emerging modern