Branwell Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the life story of Elizabeth Bennet, a young girl from an aristocratic, yet not wealthy family. Elizabeth places utmost value in five core qualities: knowledge, intellect, humility, judgement, and integrity. She only respects people who exhibit these values, and who also see these values in her. Elizabeth believes that men and women are equals along these qualities. Even though she believes this, she does not act that way in social situations. In fact, the…

Tess Essay In the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles written by Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hardy challenges the ideas that the Victorians had. He does this through themes and the three main characters, Tess,Alec and Angel. The two main themes that challenge the Victorian ways is the idea of the perfect woman and social criticism and the main characters that challenge the ways of Victorian ways is Tess, Angel and Alec. The perfect idea of a woman was that they do what men want them to do, stay at home…

Ratan is one of the simplest and yet one of the most enigmatic feminine characters in Rabindranath Tagore’s short stories. She is a twelve year old, poor orphan girl. Her parents died when she was very young and hence, she has lived in this solitude all her life. She is a simple, honest and caring girl. She is illiterate but slowly learns to read and write under the guidance of the postmaster. Infact, she has a high grasping power which is well proved by the speed with which she learns to read…

something). Bennet and Royle call this “the process of unfolding and revelation” (271). Brontё’s Jane Eyre accounts to “telling [the reader] the plain truth!” (111) indicating that narrators in Literature can be ‘all-knowing’ and ‘all-telling’. However, Bronte relies on the first-person narrative to have readers think that Jane and they discover the secrets simultaneously: “That there was a mystery at Thornfield; that from [we are] purposely excluded from (165).” This technique builds a…

In the light of Nicole Jouve’s stand one may say that the autobiographical plays a very important part in this novel. Devi is nobody but Nayantara Sahgal’s mother who was undergoing Nehru phase of Indira Gandhi’s reign. The disillusionment reached its peak during the emergency period. Devi’s dilemma is the dilemma that tormented Vijaya Lakshmi and her daughter Nayantara. In a dignified way both tried to give vent to the feeling of dislocation in their books in the quite of Mussorie. Vijaya…

In the novel Sula written by Toni Morrison, is a powerful and interesting novel. It has won her numerous of prizes such as the National Bestseller and the Noble Prize Award. Issues of motherhood is a major aspect of the novel, throughout the novel children lives are shaped differently than others, and they will be faced with obstacles. Gather and Grow states ‘‘that a mother is someone who nurtures someone who cares for the deepest places of your heart. Anyone can throw a meal at you or give you…

Character Comparison: Younger Heathcliff vs. Older Heathcliff Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Brontë, published in the year 1847. Wuthering Heights – a farmhouse – is the location of where the novel is set, along with the property of the Lintons, Thrushcross Grange. The main themes in the novel are jealousy (caused by love) and vengeance. There is an ongoing feud between two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons over the inheritance of property. In Wuthering Heights, one of the…

Though shy in real life, Jane Austen’s personality and wit shines through her heroines in her novels. Her works provide an inside perspective of her world and her mind. Her last completed work, Persuasion, challenges and also defends the status quo of class structure in early nineteenth-century British society through the character of Anne Elliot. Anne Elliot provides the reader with a sense of pride concerning her birth and rank, which was expected from a woman of her standing at that time.…

In a society dominated by stereotypes and labels about gender roles, “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munroe reveals the story of a nonconformist girl (whose name is intentionally omitted) and her confrontation with the dominance of the male in the house and females obedience. The 10 years-old unnamed girl protagonist grows up in a fox farm in Jubilee, Canada back in 1940s along with her younger brother, named Laird ( from Lord) and her father, whom she is helping with the farm and the mother who wants…

The Victorian society was not divided simply horizontally by class, it was also divided vertically by gender. In both texts we are exposed to gender ideals The importance of a woman’s identity during the Victorian period was unquestionably measured in accordance with her sexual status. The existence of the fallen women was a concept that was prevalent during the Victorian period and is largely connected to sexual purity and an irrevocable loss of innocence. In both Goblin Market and Mary Barton…