Emily Brontë

Independence is a state of solitude, self-determination, and freedom that everyone will crave at least once in their lifetime. During the 1840 's, feminism was beginning to spread, yet it was still a struggle for women to obtain independence, especially for those who truly wanted it. Charlotte Bronte 's romantic fiction novel, Jane Eyre, is named after the main character who encounters the same conflict as the majority of the women in her time period along with experiencing love. For some people…

"Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession” according to the psychologist G. Stanley Hall, the founder of adolescent psychology. Adolescence is defined by Hall as a time when younger individuals experience emotional and behavioral confusion, prior to establishing stability and reaching adulthood. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain serve as examples of bildungsromans, where the…

Evaluating Passionate Text: Significance of the Chestnut Tree in Jane Eyre The thunder rumbled through the clouds and as a sudden streak flashed across the sky; the lightning violently hit the tree and the repercussions of this (God-like) action had little arcs that danced across the thick, black sky. The tree hung in despair and disbelief, almost as if it were a weeping willow instead of a horse chestnut tree. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, “the chestnut tree is hit by lightning on the…

In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte employs birds a symbol in order to highlight important themes in her novel. While birds traditionally symbolize freedom and expression, Bronte uses them to show independence (or a lack of), freedom, and rifts in social class. Bronte also depicts some of her most prominent characters as birds such as Jane, Rochester, Adele, Bertha, and even Rochester’s guests. Through the use of bird symbolism Bronte highlights important topics in her novel, while giving the reader…

In the 19th century literature, the governess was mostly silenced, being a simple female character. On the contrary, in Neo-victorian literature, she was given voice and was no longer only a character in the background. Having a poor social condition, the governesses in the Victorian age were known to have been exemplary women: modest, diligent, with good reputation. In the house where they worked, they would have a place somewhere between a member of the family and a servant.…

In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, the protagonist, Jane, reveals what she is looking for in marriage through her opportunities to marry and her responses to each of them. Jane is an orphan who lives with her despicable cousins and aunt. After being sent away to a school steeped in hypocrisy and cruelty and upon completing her education, she finds work as a governess with the Byronic hero Mr. Rochester. As they get acquainted Jane and Mr. Rochester fall in love which leads the pair to…

Isolation plays a key role in the character development in both works of Jane Eyre and Metamorphosis. Jane Eyre was treated like an outcast for most of her life, and most people she came into contact with did not take a liking to her. Gregor Samsa was transformed into a giant bug and his entire family shut him out of their lives and they treated him as if he was a huge burden that ruined their lives. These two characters being isolated from their families and not having a lot of love in their…

The sacred nature of womanhood is one that is deeply saturated with biblical, canonical, and cultural implications; the value of an individual woman during the Victorian Era was not determined so much by individual qualities, but rather piety and ability to fall gracefully into her determined social station. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre has been examined by literary critics ad nauseam for its feminist qualities, racial implications, and social commentary. Moreover, when considering Jane Eyre,…

Finally there is the mode, which is linked to the textual function. Essentially, the mode is how a text communicates information to the audience (119). Halliday describes the mode as “what part the language is playing, what it is that the participants are expecting language to do for them in that situation” (Halliday and Hasan, 12). Additionally, this entails the form or medium the text is presented in (Schirato and Yell, 119). According to Schirato and Yell, the mode of a language needs to…

so many ways to think about a situation and more times than not you can rule there is a certain connection between someone. With one of the situations being brought to us by, Faulkners’ A Rose for Emily. While starting to read this story, you first realize how much respect the town had for Miss. Emily Grierson. She was considered in the town as…