Branwell Brontë

“He is more myself than I am. Whatever our two souls are made of, his and mine are the same” (Charlotte Bronte). Charlotte Bronte portrays the protagonist of the novel- Jane Eyre as the little girl who has a tough life and no real relationship, until she decided to be independent, find a job, and fall in love. Jane Eyre’s courageous portrayal in the novel is shown by her protecting Mr. Rochester, but, her lack of self-independence leads her back to the man that betrays her. Jane is a savior,…

In the poems “Medusa” by Duffy and “The Laboratory” by Browning both authors explore the theme of jealousy and its destructive nature on people and society as a whole. In Duffy’s poem “Medusa” she critiques society on its treatment towards women, demonstrating how those without beauty are only corrupted with jealousy and how this behavior has survived through the ages. While Duffy focuses on the impacts of jealousy on the individual Browning looks towards its impacts on society, and its power to…

Katherina Minola, also known as Kate, is the daughter of Baptista in Taming of the Shrew. “Shrew” is a term used to describe an aggressively assertive woman. From the beginning, Kate is constantly referred to as “a shrew whom cannot be tamed”. But as the story progresses, Kate’s personality drastically changes when she understands the effects of her actions after her husband, Petruchio, starts acting like her. His mission is to marry Kate and prove his friends wrong when he says that he can tame…

“Blindness separates people from things;deafness separates people from people.”Helen Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. Helen was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, AL to Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller. Her family lived on a homestead that her grandfather had built. Helen is the sister of Mildred Campbell and Phillip Brooks Keller, and half sister to James and William Simpson Keller who…

Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American writer that is known for her variety of literary styles. She’s written poems, essays, and novels. Most of her pieces are based on real life experiences and relationships, “Dusting” included. “Dusting” is one of her less popular and shorter pieces, only eighteen lines, that symbolizes and represents her relationship with her mother. The main character in the poem, who is also the narrator, is the daughter. She begins the piece by describing her morning…

Buffy Sainte-Marie is a multitalented recording artist who was born in Saskatchewan, 1941. Sainte-Marie is “a pioneer and influential singer-songwriter of love songs, and music with a political and social activist focus.” She is famous for her songs about peace and love, the anti-war single “Universal Soldier,” and her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Although her evolving sound created her mainstream success, Buffy Sainte-Marie made a name for herself in…

Jane Eyre Motif Analysis (Revision) During the Victorian Era, much of the literature is about struggle and societal problems. This type of writing is seen in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre, the protagonist, is a female orphan who faces many struggles throughout her life in Victorian England. The lack of a paternal figure is just one of these many struggles. Throughout Jane’s life, she encounters many older, more mature, female and male characters. The finding of these paternal…

It is seldom, indeed, an English face comes so near the antique models as did his” (Brontë 329). Unlike Mr. Rochester, in which the topic of religion seldom if ever is involved with Jane’s love for him, St. John’s religious power and magnetism is even seen in his physical appearance. Being described as having a perfect “Athenian” face,…

Jane Eyre is a novel, written in the Victorian era by the author Charlotte Bronte. Bronte uses different setting in order to show what the characters are feeling, illustrates character development, and to foreshadow certain events that are going to occur. Jane Eyre makes particularly powerful and complex uses of setting, which it intertwines with plot, characterization, and, of course, symbolism and imagery. The setting of the story is carefully divided into five distinct places, each of which…

Bronte immediately establishes Jane Eyre as an outsider in society in the opening of Chapter 1, significantly through her pervasive use of foil. She sets the scene with “John, Eliza and Georgiana […] clustered round their mama in the drawing-room” with Jane looking in from the outside of such a close circle. A “cluster” connotes warmth, love and affection, which Jane is clearly not entitled to. The introduction from the very beginning of this whole series of characters used to alienate Jane is…