Branwell Brontë

Bleak House is a story about Esther Summerson who lives with her aunt and is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Dedlock and Captain Hawdon. She spends the early years of her life at Ms. Barbary, her aunt’s house. After Ms. Barbary’s death she goes to live at Greenleaf at Ms. Donny’s with the help of her guardian Mr. Jarndyce. She spends six years at Greenleaf. After six years she goes to live at her guardian’s house accompanied with two other wards Miss Ada Clare and Richard Carstone. She…

Jane Eyre has a suggestive name. Eyre might refer to “heir” but she is the heir of nothing, at least in the beginning of the novel; it also may suggest “ire” that Jane has inside her. The novel has an angry tone to it, almost as if Brontë had realized the roles and circumstances of women around her and depicted it in Jane Eyre: imprisonment, orphan, starvation, anger turned to madness. According to Elizabeth Rigby, Jane Eyre revolves around the personification of an unregenerate and…

When people listen to the word ‘autobiography’, they instantly expect a book which deals with the life story of the author. They believe that it must be a book of nonfiction. However, The Woman Warrior – Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts written by Maxine Hong Kingston is different than other autobiographies. First of all, it is an autobiography by a Chinese American woman. Then, she included lots of fantastic elements. Moreover, the protagonist of her autobiography is not only her, but her…

‘Jane Eyre’ is a Victorian novel written by Charlotte Brontë under the pseudonym Currer Bell. It was a very controversial novel, due to its heroine, who took her life in her own hands and wanted to have an education, to be superior, to tranced her condition and the condition of the women in her era. Charlotte Brontë created a bildungsroman which shows the path of a woman, started as a child until she reaches maturity and gets married. Her way till her marriage is as follows: First of all, the…

Georgiana and Eliza are both cold on the isnide, and chose to ignore the depths of their emotions, separating themselves from their family to avoid heartache. In the wake of her mother’s death, Eliza appears cold, her lack of grief was described by Bronte in her immediate reaction, “a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant: as it passed away she turned and left the room, and so did I. Neither of us had dropped a tear.” () Eliza and Georgiana suffered incredible losses, however, instead of…

Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850; daughter of Eliza and Thomas O’Flaherty. She had five siblings, but unfortunately her sister died in infancy and her brothers in their twenties ("Kate O'Flaherty Chopin"). Kate was the only child to live past twenty-five. Her father passed away due to a terrible train accident. In 1855 Kate was sent to a Catholic boarding school in St. Louis ("Kate O'Flaherty Chopin”). The nuns knew her for her intelligence, and she was top of her class.…

During the time that Charlotte Bronte writes Jane Eyre, women in the lower class have conflicts to overcome and desires to fulfill. Through this novel, Bronte explains how a girl named Jane strives to conquer common issues in the time period of this novel. In some works of literature, childhood and adolescence are portrayed as times graced by innocence and a sense of wonder; in Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte depicts childhood and adolescence as times of tribulation and terror as Jane struggles to…

At the beginning of the novel, Jane is very restricted and abused at Gateshead. Jane feels as if she is very alienated, due to her mistreatment and abusive encounters by the Reed family. Jane wants wants to be free from abuse she endures physically, mentally, and emotionally from Reeds, Jane is constantly being brought down by John Reed. He refers to Jane as a “bad animal”. In particular John gets away with hitting Jane and accusing her of bad behaviour. Her whole life she has been told she is…

Who’s Jane Eyre? Jane is an orphan from England. Her parents died of typhus, a skin disease. Her uncle reed took her in. Sadly he died as well. Jane was left to live with her aunt mrs.reed and her 3 cousins. They showed disrespect and hatred towards her presence. All they did to jane was mistreat her, bully her and blame her for anything wrong that happens. Jane is excluded from her family. She feels isolated and different from everyone else. Therefore these actions had an effect on Jane’s…

In Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre, Bronte uses bird imagery that parallels Jane’s journey as she becomes a woman. The birds symbolize how Jane is trapped, like a caged bird, in the beginning and then develops into a mature young woman who has the strength to ‘set off on her own’. In the end of the novel, Jane returns to Mr. Rochester to start a family, much like birds return to their nest. Through the use of bird imagery such as doves, Bronte allows the readers to gain insight into who Jane…