Chris Eyre

Jane Eyre has a suggestive name. Eyre might refer to “heir” but she is the heir of nothing, at least in the beginning of the novel; it also may suggest “ire” that Jane has inside her. The novel has an angry tone to it, almost as if Brontë had realized the roles and circumstances of women around her and depicted it in Jane Eyre: imprisonment, orphan, starvation, anger turned to madness. According to Elizabeth Rigby, Jane Eyre revolves around the personification of an unregenerate and…

When people listen to the word ‘autobiography’, they instantly expect a book which deals with the life story of the author. They believe that it must be a book of nonfiction. However, The Woman Warrior – Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts written by Maxine Hong Kingston is different than other autobiographies. First of all, it is an autobiography by a Chinese American woman. Then, she included lots of fantastic elements. Moreover, the protagonist of her autobiography is not only her, but her…

‘Jane Eyre’ is a Victorian novel written by Charlotte Brontë under the pseudonym Currer Bell. It was a very controversial novel, due to its heroine, who took her life in her own hands and wanted to have an education, to be superior, to tranced her condition and the condition of the women in her era. Charlotte Brontë created a bildungsroman which shows the path of a woman, started as a child until she reaches maturity and gets married. Her way till her marriage is as follows: First of all, the…

Characters Protagonists: - Eva Smith Eva Smith is an unseen but central character in the play. She was described as being “pretty – very pretty ” with ”soft brown hair and big dark eyes”. It was revealed that she had no parents, and no family. One after the other, the Birlings made her life even more miserable by dismissing her from her only job, exploiting her and getting her pregnant, and even giving her the cold-shoulders when she was in a desperate need for help. This eventually caused her…

The same as the setting for the Maggie’s story, the protagonists, Ellen and Archer, in The Age of the Innocence are living between the two cultures. Ellen is a supporter for the new culture. With the appearance of Ellen Olenska in the novel, it deeply brands with the mark of an unusual lady. “With brown hair growing in close curls about her temples and held in place by a narrow band of diamonds. The suggestions of this headdress, which gave her what was then called a ‘Josephine look’, was…

The gothic novel, Jane Eyre, focuses on the life of a young, orphaned girl, who learns to balance her precarious station in 19th century England- a society whose culture is dictated by rigid social castes and protocols. She grows up in household of her Aunt, Mrs Reed, after the death of her parents, where she experiences neglect and estrangement until she moves to a charity school at the age of ten. The novel briefly narrates the story of her cousins, Georgiana and Eliza Reed, through brief…

Demonstrating How Teresa’s Stubbornness Evolves Within Luis Alberto Urrea’s “The Hummingbird’s Daughter: The novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea follows the life from birth to young womanhood of Terese Urrea, later to be known as the Saint of Cabora. Teresa is many things within this novel, and she goes through several changes but the trait that sticks with her most heavily throughout life was her stubbornness. Her stubborn mannerisms are shown a many of ways in the book, and…

In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Brontë’s choice to associate Jane Eyre or Edward Rochester with birds represents their dependency on one another. In the beginning of their relationship, Jane is dependent on Rochester for financial and social reasons. As their relationship develops, she becomes more dependent on his love than his money. In both of these cases, Rochester describes Jane as a bird. But when Jane asserts her independence, she realizes she cannot identify as a bird anymore because…

are on Fire: An Exploration of Sexuality in Jane Eyre, Stone covers how Jane Eyre was an astonishing trailblazer when it was first published, creating a unique quasi-genre, and its underlying use of fire as a symbol for anything from the burning of Rochester’s bed to a burning in some characters loins. As shown throughout the book there is insane amounts of sexual and romantic tension between Jane and Mr. Rochester. One of the scenes in Jane Eyre where the tension is so thick you could nearly…

During the time that Charlotte Bronte writes Jane Eyre, women in the lower class have conflicts to overcome and desires to fulfill. Through this novel, Bronte explains how a girl named Jane strives to conquer common issues in the time period of this novel. In some works of literature, childhood and adolescence are portrayed as times graced by innocence and a sense of wonder; in Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte depicts childhood and adolescence as times of tribulation and terror as Jane struggles to…