Branwell Brontë

“Zoë, darling, come here. Don’t go near that man,” the mother’s voice is drenched in disgust as she eyes me suspiciously, avoiding my glacial stare. Oh, the kindness of strangers. My fingertips are the cold colour of the dusking, January sky. The streets of New York are swarming with absorbed souls, all caged by their own thoughts. I hang on to words spoken by strangers, attempting to distract myself from the piercing wind, numbing my bones. You could say I’m a regular. Baptised on the streets…

In Charlotte Brönte’s Jane Eyre, morality is tied to Jane’s understanding of religion and spirituality. Morality is presented to Jane through Christianity and Jane’s spirituality. Throughout the novel, characters such as Brocklehurst and St John present Jane with their interpretations of Christian moral guidelines: Brocklehurst presents the rejection of physical nourishment, while St John presents ideals such as the rejection of emotional fulfillment in order to carry out God’s will on Earth.…

Choosing to Deprive the Self of Joys in Life: The Complexity of Lucy Snowe in Villette In Villette, Brontë gives readers the account of protagonist Lucy Snowe, a complicated and, at times, emotionless woman who is forced to express herself while holding on to virtue and her Protestant convictions. In their critical observation of Lucy’s character as a whole, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, who wrote The Madwoman in the Attic, comment about Lucy being a woman, “from first to last. . .without”.…

Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt By: Aubrey Zozaya #33 HER Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York, New York. She died on November 7, 1962, at the age of 78 in the same city. She was born into a wealthy, but dysfunctional family. As a child, she was a shy girl and suffered an extreme loss. Her mother died in 1892 and her father died in 1894, she was very young when her parents died. Her grandma criticized Eleanor’s looks which lowered her self-esteem and made her become…

In chapter two of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Bronte displays imagery and symbolism to create suspense for readers as they read later on in the novel. These techniques in use by Bronte gives the reader ideas of what is to come for Jane. Imagery is presented throughout chapter to describe Jane's empathy and knowledge in the red room. As Jane is being put in the red room she says “Oh! I saw a light, and I thought a ghost would come”(Bronte 21). The words “light” and “ghost” draw…

Arienne Rich's article "Jane Eyre: The Temptations of a Motherless Woman" in the Norton Critical Edition of Jane Eyre is separated into chapters like in the book, but each chapter is about a different stage or time zone in Jane’s Life. Rich focus mostly on the stories them of Love versus Autonomy. Also, she focuses on the motif of substitute mothers. From reading Rich’s article you can observe Rich focusing on Bronte's biography, like biographical criticism. She considers how the text is like…

Jane's life at the Lowood Institution in the novel "Jane Eyre" is not a very positive one. There are only a few characters like she likes, but there are also a couple that she does not like. At Lowood, Jane deals with a lot of internal conflicts as well as external conflicts. When she first arrives, she becomes offended with the way Mr.Brockelhurst questions her. Mrs.Reed, her aunt, begins to say that she lies often and that makes it worse for her. One day she becomes humiliated at school when…

The language that Charlotte Bronte uses in Jane Eyre has word choices that describe the feelings and moods of her characters strongly. Charlotte also uses old english writing that makes a fine read. Jane Eyre is classified as a bildungsroman, or growth narrative, and many books that were written during or near the 19th century were bildungsromans. The novel is classified as one because it shows Jane's internal growth from a child to an adult. This makes Jane Eyre a truly exceptional book to read…

Theodore Roethke has a love for Jane but not a romantic love. A love more of admiration of the person she was. He uses aspects of nature to describe her greatest qualities. oh how he talks so highly of her, shy to talk at first Jane was but "once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped her" as if they have been awaiting eagerly for her to talk this whole time. This indicates that when Jane spoke everybody listened with great interest including Theodore. "Her song trembling the twigs and…

After the publication of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte gained lots of attention from the book around the Victorian Era. The people in the Victorian Era had different views on what they thought about the book depending mostly on their social class. Bronte’s criticism in Jane Eyre of class and gender was not very effective in changing the way the Victorian Society functioned, but rather it was effective in making society think about the different portrayal of the upper class in the Victorian Era,…