Charlotte Brontë

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.…

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…

prejudices that exist in the world. Social prejudices capture the essence of all the different inequalities that exist in society and amplifies them into hindrances of everyday life. Social prejudices such as these are displayed in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. This story follows Jane Eyre, a young woman who suffers through an isolated and depressing childhood but grows up to become a governess in the rich household of Thornfield. There, she falls in love with her boss, Mr. Rochester, and…

Jane Eyre was published in 1847 by Charlotte Bronte. The same year, Wuthering Heights was published by Emily Bronte (of course, under their respective pseudonyms- Currer and Ellis Bell). It seems there were more things in common with these books than just the sisters who wrote them. The characters and themes are shared between the two classics. Gothic elements, like the presence of ‘something more’. The supernatural. But, where Wuthering Heights contained explicit proof of the supernatural with…

CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION Charlotte Bronte, the prominent Victorian writer was born in 1816 to Rev. Patrick Bronte and his wife Maria. She was the third kid to the Bronte family. At a very early age she lost her mother Maria in 1821. This incident was heartbreaking for Charlotte and the whole family. The siblings Elizabeth, charlotte, Emily, Anne and son Barnwell had an extremely close relationship. Unfortunately, things didn’t stop here. There was more to come. In 1821 the family shifted to…

they still have to the return to the school with the constant reminder of the execrable event that took place on February 14th, 2018. Throughout her life Charlotte Bronte endured many losses and experienced many unpleasant events. At an early age…

Brontë uses mirrors to reveal Jane’s reflection as separate from how Jane perceives herself in order to suggest that through her maturity, Jane has suppressed certain attributes in order to function within the confines of society. During Jane’s dream, Bertha is standing in front of the mirror. Jane sees “the reflection of visage and features quite distinctly in the dark” (327). Bertha’s features contrast the dark and, therefore, are light. Thus, Brontë implies that Jane wants Bertha’s…

they still have to the return to the school with the constant reminder of the execrable event that took place on February 14th, 2018. Throughout her life Charlotte Bronte endured many losses and experienced many unpleasant events. At an early age she…

In writing Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte sought to oppose her sisters’ beautiful heroines and prove she could make a heroine “interesting on any other terms”, stating, “I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours”. Bronte created a character that strayed far from the conventions of the beautiful but weak heroine. She was able to create such a character because Bronte herself didn't fall into the standard definition of the women of her…

throughout the novel however, Charlotte Bronte's descriptions in Jane Eyre have a tendency to alienate her readers, invoke a lack of interest and are not distributed appropriately throughout her novel. These factors, therefore, render her imagery ineffective. Charlotte Bronte has a gift for presenting vivid landscapes and architecture however, her descriptions…