Charlotte Mason

Analysis Nautica Watson Ms.Lovin AP Literature 02/08/18 SOCIAL CLASS STATUS IN JANE EYRE Charlotte Bronte's novel by the name Jane Eyre is set in Victorian England, a place that social class played a huge factor in life as well as in society. Therefore, the novel plays a critical role in exploring the Victorian England strict hierarchy. Of importance, is that through Jane the main protagonist in the novel, Charlotte attempts to show that social class relationships lack absolute boundaries hence…

“He is more myself than I am. Whatever our two souls are made of, his and mine are the same” (Charlotte Bronte). Charlotte Bronte portrays the protagonist of the novel- Jane Eyre as the little girl who has a tough life and no real relationship, until she decided to be independent, find a job, and fall in love. Jane Eyre’s courageous portrayal in the novel is shown by her protecting Mr. Rochester, but, her lack of self-independence leads her back to the man that betrays her. Jane is a savior,…

Katherina Minola, also known as Kate, is the daughter of Baptista in Taming of the Shrew. “Shrew” is a term used to describe an aggressively assertive woman. From the beginning, Kate is constantly referred to as “a shrew whom cannot be tamed”. But as the story progresses, Kate’s personality drastically changes when she understands the effects of her actions after her husband, Petruchio, starts acting like her. His mission is to marry Kate and prove his friends wrong when he says that he can tame…

“Blindness separates people from things;deafness separates people from people.”Helen Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. Helen was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, AL to Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller. Her family lived on a homestead that her grandfather had built. Helen is the sister of Mildred Campbell and Phillip Brooks Keller, and half sister to James and William Simpson Keller who…

Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American writer that is known for her variety of literary styles. She’s written poems, essays, and novels. Most of her pieces are based on real life experiences and relationships, “Dusting” included. “Dusting” is one of her less popular and shorter pieces, only eighteen lines, that symbolizes and represents her relationship with her mother. The main character in the poem, who is also the narrator, is the daughter. She begins the piece by describing her morning…

Buffy Sainte-Marie is a multitalented recording artist who was born in Saskatchewan, 1941. Sainte-Marie is “a pioneer and influential singer-songwriter of love songs, and music with a political and social activist focus.” She is famous for her songs about peace and love, the anti-war single “Universal Soldier,” and her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Although her evolving sound created her mainstream success, Buffy Sainte-Marie made a name for herself in…

Jane Eyre Motif Analysis (Revision) During the Victorian Era, much of the literature is about struggle and societal problems. This type of writing is seen in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre, the protagonist, is a female orphan who faces many struggles throughout her life in Victorian England. The lack of a paternal figure is just one of these many struggles. Throughout Jane’s life, she encounters many older, more mature, female and male characters. The finding of these paternal…

Mr. Rochester and St. John’s Greek and Roman Divisions Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre details the life of the titular heroine, displaying a character that undergoes both immense physical and mental growth within the pages of the novel. Jane’s developing desire for love is realized when she finally becomes a young adult, as she forms a relationship with her pupil’s caretaker (and possible father) Mr. Rochester. The two intend to get married, yet horrors from Mr. Rochester’s past cause Jane to flee,…

Jane Eyre is a novel, written in the Victorian era by the author Charlotte Bronte. Bronte uses different setting in order to show what the characters are feeling, illustrates character development, and to foreshadow certain events that are going to occur. Jane Eyre makes particularly powerful and complex uses of setting, which it intertwines with plot, characterization, and, of course, symbolism and imagery. The setting of the story is carefully divided into five distinct places, each of which…

Bronte immediately establishes Jane Eyre as an outsider in society in the opening of Chapter 1, significantly through her pervasive use of foil. She sets the scene with “John, Eliza and Georgiana […] clustered round their mama in the drawing-room” with Jane looking in from the outside of such a close circle. A “cluster” connotes warmth, love and affection, which Jane is clearly not entitled to. The introduction from the very beginning of this whole series of characters used to alienate Jane is…