Charlotte Mew

“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…

rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash (Matthew 7:25 and 7:27). To have a strong maturity, it must be built on a solid foundation, not from a weak and unstable beginning. In Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre", the protagonist need to rebuild her maturity and morals. When Brocklehurst exposed her for being the Evil One's servant, it caused a chain reaction, pushing her to be the best, exposing her to new, more mature people,…

The protagonist in Jane Eyre, Jane herself, faces various struggles throughout her life. One of the greatest of these struggles is not with an antagonist, but is within her own mind. Though she does face mistreatment from others, these experiences merely cause obstacles in her mind that are ultimately what she must overcome. She incorporates ideals from various characters into her own thoughts, while still rebelling against these same beliefs. The battle in Jane Eyre’s mind is between passion…

The topic of Dr. Jeffres presentation was C.S. Lewis. The thesis centered on Lewis’s success despite adversity. Due to the format of the presentation, many of the key points of the lecture focused on important dates in Lewis’s life. One of the more notable dates that was discussed was the birth date of Lewis, which happened to be November 29, 1898. As was pointed out by Dr. Jeffres, Lewis was born in Ireland, which came as a bit of a surprise to me as for some reason I always believed he was…