Branwell Brontë

With the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, only about two dysfunctional families and their two houses. Through only the two families, of one being the Earnshaws and the other being the Lintons, Bronte is able to exemplify many different themes throughout this novel. Ever since Mr. Earnshaw brought home Heathcliff to be raised as another child, the Earnshaws became a broken family and shows how a family should not act on any standards. “Miss Cathy and he were now very thick; but Hindley…

– you are like a slave driver – you are like the Roman emperors” (Bronte,…

have delineated very prettily a graceful Apollo: he is present to your imagination-tall, fair, blue-eyed, and with a Grecian profile. Your eyes dwell on a Vulcan- a real blacksmith, brown, broad-shouldered; and blind and lame into the bargain.’” (422 Brontë) Mr. Rochester’s description of St. John as a “graceful Apollo” solidifies his stance regarding his Greek descriptions. His comparison to Apollo further distances himself from Mr. Rochester, as the blemish-free God of Music is nothing like…

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre was published in 1847, and although it was written over 150 years ago, it still continues to be an important piece of literature. Bronte does an excellent job displaying how Jane Eyre develops as a character. Throughout Jane’s development one thing never changes, and that is her strong sense of justice. One example of how Jane Eyre displays an extreme sense of justice is with Mrs. Reed, her malicious aunt. Jane lives with Mrs. Reed throughout the first ten years…

I’ve marked everyday,” said Heathcliff. “Yes—very foolish: as if I took notice!” replied Catherine (Brontë 64). Catherine assumes that Heathcliff does not care about how many times she is with the Lintons. Catherine’s narcissistic tendency of craving attention is her most prominent narcissistic character trait. Pairing with her narcissistic qualities…

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a novel by English author Anne Bronte, sister to Emily Bronte and Charlotte Bronte. The novel was distributed in 1848 and recounts the tale of focal characters Helen Huntington and Gilbert Markham. The story's perspective exchanges between that of Gilbert and Helen, told as a letter Gilbert is keeping in touch with his brother by marriage and passages from Helen's journal that she endows to Gilbert. In the novel, Helen Huntington touches base in the town where…

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle” (huffingtonpost.com). Anne Bronte’s novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall displays a strong sense of feminism throughout the novel. Bronte chooses to illustrate this sensitive topic through the protagonist of the novel, Helen Graham. Helen is a reclusive who is too individualistic for the time period she lives in. Because of this, she is shunned and viewed as an outcast for expressing her femininity. Helen challenges the role of women in…

Our lives as human beings are evidently formed through both individual and global values that help guide our personal beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours. Volume one of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights reveals, through the plotline and character relationships, that values are essential to forming personal ideas including perceptions of love, jealousy, and revenge. Love throughout volume one of Wuthering Heights takes multiple forms, and is a central value in which characters hold dear to their…

Brocklehurst is the contradicting overseer of the institution and causes emotional distraught towards Jane, whereas Miss Temple motivates Jane with "precept and example" (180). Mr. Brocklehurst is a man who made a point to have nothing nice given to the Lowood students (including proper food and water), while later allowing his wife and children to visit the school decked out in glamorous attire. His overall hypocritical and mean spirit limited Jane in believing in not only herself, but also in…

When we mention the theme of a book or a novel, we are discussing about a general idea, lesson, or message that can be seen through the entire story. The events in the book may be very interesting, or exciting, but without the universal connection to human, they will not grab our attention in any real way. A novel of Magaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, is highly considered as a stimulating work of feminist dystopian fiction that examines the cultural construction of fertility, rebellion,…