Charlotte Anita Whitney

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,…

Novels commonly reflect the author’s time period and conflicts that the author had encountered to shape his/her view that is evident throughout the novel. Likewise, Jane Eyre, published in 1847 by Charlotte Brontë, reflects Brontë’s contradicting views with the values of her time period. While the novel presents Jane’s harsh life and her transformation, the novel mostly consists of Brontë’s challenge to what was deemed acceptable at the time; hence the subtitle An Autobiography. Brontë’s…

In her nineteenth century novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte makes a point of utilizing several different spaces for her setting. Although each is different from the others, they are all similarly homes or places in which someone can be housed. For instance, the story begins in Bretton, at the home of Mrs. Bretton. Lucy lives here for some time, until she finally moves on to work for an elderly woman, Miss Marchmont. Finally, Lucy finds herself as a teacher at a boarding school in Villette.…

Jane was a European woman in the 18th or 19th century with no family or connections. This was a bad start to creating an enjoyable life, but although Jane’s status didn’t give her great odds of happiness, she achieved it by being a creative thinker. Throughout this book, Brontë showed how Jane’s wits and good ideas shaped her journey to adulthood. By examining Jane through a Psychological lens, the reader gains insight to her how she and her thoughts mature, how she analyzes the people around…