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G. Stanley Hall, the founder of adolescent psychology. Adolescence is defined by Hall as a time when younger individuals experience emotional and behavioral confusion, prior to establishing stability and reaching adulthood. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain serve as examples of bildungsromans, where the protagonists lack the ideal, care-free childhood filled with innocence; Huck faces an alcoholic father, and Jane encounters cruelty from her…

Rochester takes interest in Jane and Blanche Ingram. Informed about their wedding and overtaken by jealousy, Jane reminds herself that “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself” (Brontë 322). Jane realizes that the need for another person in her life to rely on is optional and unnecessary to live contently. Jane hides her feelings for Rochester and lives on exercising independence and her need only for God and her…

they are placed into. The following quote grants the idea that some people may have a relatively good upbringing while others not so much. Now, similar to these ideas of what is, or is not a good upbringing a novel named Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte follows down a similar path comparing itself to society by having two families with two houses. One of these house’s, in particular, is much less of an eyesore and is surrounded by the beauty which is the former Linton’s residence. Then you have…

situations that include things such as monsters, mistreated female characters, and what happens to women when they become dominated by men. (1) Some of the most famous and known female gothic authors are Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, and Charlotte Bronte. All of these authors have written dark stories to contribute to the feminist movement, pulling from their own personal life, their own experiences and also showing their thoughts on what should be done and what could also happen if a woman gives…

depression. Charles Dickens introduced the life of poor and depressed people to public in his works like Oliver Twist (1838) and David Copperfield (1849). He sketch the pictures of hunger and thirst. Charlotte did it in Jane Eyre (1847) while Emily Bronte in Wuthering Heights (1847) Rhys created such type of atmosphere in Antoinette’s family. She shows then financially damaged and mentally disturbed. Narrative conventions of Victorian…

whether the characters are presented as outsiders due to their internal characteristics, or whether it is society and other external forces which consequently contribute to their lonely and secluded characters. From the very beginning of ‘Jane Eyre’, Bronte presents Jane as an outsider based on her characteristics, life and childhood. From Jane Eyre’s school life and education, her lonesome characteristics are visible to the reader. Jane’s conflict with Mr Brocklehurst is foreshadowed in chapter…

During the late winter months of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents an estate in the isolated moors of England. After meeting peculiar landlord Heathcliff, Lockwood asks housekeeper Nelly Dean if she knows of him. Nelly tells of being a child at Wuthering Heights, a servant with her mother. Owner Mr.Earnshaw, brings home an orphaned boy on his travels from Liverpool. Earnshaw children, Hindley and Catherine, despise the dark-skinned gypsy boy, Heathcliff. After the death of Mrs.Earnshaw,…

mental limitations to show the strength and extend of characters’ journeys. As a literary convention, imprisonment in these Gothic novels allow for Charlotte Brontë to explore and dismantle the Victorian expectations of women while Angela Carter is able to warp traditional fairy tales to explore the emergence of second-wave feminism. Charlotte Brontë uses Bertha Mason as a foil to Jane Eyre, showing the reader and Jane what could happen should she chose to remain in Thornfield with Rochester.…

The combination of the novels Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, and Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, highlight the significance that perspective has on the development of a narration. Jane Eyre depicts Bertha Rochester as a lunatic without explaining how she becomes crazy; however, Wide Sargasso Sea justifies her by exposing the reader to the torture Mr. Rochester puts her through that leads to her insanity. Analyzing the differences between the two novels, specifically the change of Bertha’s…

The novel was published in 1847 with the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. This is the only novel of Brontë which narrates a passionate love story between Catherine and Heathcliff and it is also beyond this theme, there are revenge, dreams, nightmares, ghosts and violence. The criticisms were made negatively in this age since the readers thought that the…