Charlotte Brontë

In the track “God Help the Outcasts,” Esmerelda sings a song of prayer, asking God for help. It shows us how helpless and desperate Esmerelda is, how hopelessly trapped she was in the cathedral and how hopeless the situation of the gypsies seems like. The composers made this song into a prayer, metaphorically describing how no one on earth will have helped them. The part of the song where the other characters in the cathedral sing shows how genuine Esmerelda’s prayer is. The others ask for…

"Pride and prejudice" by Jane Austen Jane Austen’s valuable treatise Pride and Prejudice exemplifies various kinds of marriages; however, leaves the readers with the impression that marriages of suitability and love are the ones to be wished for. Pride and Prejudice falls in the genre of romantic and sentimental novels of the eighteenth century. In the first three chapters of the novel, every situation and incident of the plot advances the progress of the story. The chapters contain gentle and…

Harrish Bhela AP English Lit 3/16/18 Pride and Prejudice is a romantic narrative written by Jane Austen which presents Netherfield, England time period differing from our era. Austen uses the romantic life of his two main characters Elizabeth Bennet and an aristocrat Fitzwilliam Darcy to bring out his ideas perfectly to the readers. The novel is much more than a straightforward romantic book as it is a real critical reflection of the societies today and addresses several other themes apart…

Myla Hayes DePalatis HE 2 Period 3 15 November 2015 Modern Woman? Jane Eyre is a novel about a young lady and her journeys and experiences while growing up and becoming a woman. Often when the themes of this novel are being discussed, feminism comes up. Jane has the desire for women to be treated like every other man. Jane is a very distinguished character who in some aspects very independent. When it comes to feminism, she has the mindset of a modern woman as an…

As was discussed in class, Charlotte Brontë uses surveillance often throughout her classic novel Villette. When reading this book, the occasions where surveillance is used stand out among others, and it’s apparent that Brontë spends an abundance of time focusing on these scenes in particular. Lucy doesn’t want to experience life for herself, thus throughout the novel the reader is able to see Lucy watch and observe others. Surveillance is also used by Madame Beck as a means of keeping her…

obsession can trap a woman in a net and distort who she really is. Obsessed people pursue their own fulfillment by distorting the personhood of those they claim to love. This is learned from two highly regarded works of literature: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In both Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby, Mr. Rochester and Gatsby distort the personhood of the women they love, by wanting the women to change themselves for them. The way the women react to…

When Jane Eyre was first published by Charlotte Brontë in Victorian England, it was viewed as revolutionary. In the modern era, despite rapid changes in the role of women in both the home and workplace, the novel is still regarded as one of the greatest works of feminist literature worldwide. Brontë expertly presents power struggles between her narrator, Jane, and men, alongside conflicts with society as a whole in order to produce an overall theme of female empowerment. Within this passage…

Adeline has been whipped,thoroughly beaten, and has had a torturous life she never was welcomed by the family and had a depressing life. The memoir Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is a story about a girl with a depressing life. Adeline was always depressed about being last on everything. Victor once said “It’s so unfair why doesn’t she ever get to go anywhere with us. Niang screamed That’s just the way it is! “( Yen Mah 156)She doesn’t get to go even with her own family. They treat her as…

How does Jane Eyre compare to Bertha Mason and why is that significant? It is undeniably blatant that Jane Eyre, the eponymous character of Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre and the secondary character of Bertha Mason evince several parallels between them, which is something that arguably affects and steers the plot of the novel. Although seemingly diametrically opposed to one another as much in behavioral traits as in physical appearance, these two figures seem to have a temporal,…

Ava’s fingers inched their way up the girl’s neck, every couple of inches she would jam their pointed tip into the skin. Every time the nail pierced, more air flowed in and out, suddenly her legs began to tingle. Looking down, she saw a thick blade of green protrude from each of her legs, they resembled soft rays of a fish. Ava pushed against the girl forcing her to swim on her own. Penelope tried to stand on the floor, but there was thick slime being secreted from her legs and feet. She looked…