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    “I’m not the shoe person, you have to ask Sally,” says a Charlotte Rouse employee without even looking at me and before I could even finish my sentence. I instantly felt uncomfortable and didn’t want to ask a follow up question; for instance, “Who is Sally?” Eventually, I found Sally, she asked what size my feet were, I said “an eight please.” Twenty minutes went by; Sally returned with a pair of nines. I replied, “I’ll try these, but my shoe size is actually an eight,” and huffed, “Why didn’t…

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    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontё and Alistair MacLeod’s No Great Mischief explore the importance of family. Jane Eyre presents the darkness of lacking a respected family name in a society whose tenet suggests inherited proprietary equals propriety. No Great Mischief promotes the importance of recognizing one’s familial lineage in all its glories and failures. Nonetheless, one can find a commonality between the two novels when analysing how, although they are nurtured differently and despite their…

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    Charlotte Brontë, one of the most famous Victorian women writers, has inspired many with her writing of the novel Jane Eyre to produce adaptations of their own. The idea of combining Jane’s story and the concept of orphan-hood with more modern elements stimulated Patricia Park to retell the classic in her novel Re Jane, which was written from the perspective of a contemporary half-Korean, half-American young woman in New York City. This essay will use the two novels to analyze the conservative…

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    Throughout the book, Charlotte Doyle journeys on a ship where there were supposed to be other passengers but suddenly she was left alone with the captain and crew. She has to learn to adapt to her new surroundings and change how she acts, thinks, and lives.Avi believes that even though you try not to, sometimes you have to leave your past and dignity behind you as shown through the symbols of the gloves and Charlotte’s work clothes in the book the True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. For the…

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    However, race in the book Jane Eyre applies not only to colour, but nationality as well. In addition, the way that these different groups of people were seen showed some of the inequalities that existed during this particular time period. The author Charlotte Bronte allows the reader to gain insight as to how race defined a person according to Victorian prejudices, through the main character, Jane, as well as through the other characters like Bertha, who assists with the development of the…

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    Charlotte was a homely and plain twenty-seven year old, and she was running out of hopes in finding a husband, since she was getting old for young men to propose. Charlotte only asked for a comfortable home, a higher social position, and better wealth when she decided to accept Collins's proposal, but she did not marry for love. “Mr. Collins……

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    Charlotte Smith’s Sonnet III, ‘To a Nightingale’ could be considered to be a mournfully romantic tale of a nightingale singing a song of such sadness that the poet begins to question the tragedy of the nightingale, and then to consider a cause for its song of such profound despondence. The narrator then admits to being envious of the nightingale for its freedom to sing the song. The meaning of this sonnet will be explored through key elements of prominent moods, language and figurative language…

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    In Jane Eyre, the author Charlotte Bronte uses symbolism and imagery to express her feeling of constraint and impressment. She is able to demonstrate this melancholic feeling by showing a lamenting tone to limitations. The window seats from the drawing room that Charlotte Bronte mentions, symbolizes her inaccessible nature that is nevertheless transparent. Bronte describes, “Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view… to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me…”…

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    “I went home and obeyed does directions for some three months, me came so near the bird line of utter mental ruin that I could see over”(Perkins Gilman).The lady and her significant other go to a bequest in light of the fact that the lady is alleged wiped out. She remains there for 3 months and she can not do anything by any stretch of the imagination. She begins to go rationally crazy, while her significant other imagines that she is showing signs of improvement. She's begins to see a crawling…

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    Many psychoanalytic theories may be applied to Charlotte Bronte’s, Jane Eyre. Evidence of psychology cannot only be found in Bronte’s characters, and throughout her entire novel. Psychology can be applicable to Jane Eyre, through Bronte’s childhood, and also using psychoanalytic theories surrounding literature. Charlotte Bronte wrote in a way that reflected her own life. She was not normally healthy as a child which heavily influenced her writing. Tragedy was a large part of Bronte’s life,…

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