Governess

unpleasant memories. Lowood, her boarding school for the next eight years, is not much different with its stringent and drab air, but Jane is much happier here because she is away from the Reeds. When she moves to Thornfield for her new job as a governess, she discovers it to be a large and mysterious house. When Jane is being ushered to her new room, her first thoughts are, “The steps and banisters were of oak; the staircase window was high and latticed; both it and the long gallery into which…

When researching daily life in the Elizabethan Era, there were two prominent social classes throughout most of England. The upper or noble families were akin to today’s upper class. However, the lower-class families were much different from today’s low-class families. The gap between the two classes was a huge and a majority of England was poor. Most of the low class was orphans, abandoned wives, and elderly. Each class, even the ones in the middle would despise anyone in a class lower than…

of a life quickly comes into question. Never were the citizens standing their ground given the consent of the people to kill in a public area, accessible to all. A basic tenant of being a citizen is giving up your ability to utilize force to good governess in return for the protection of rights and liberties, as well as other benefits gained through citizenship. As Miami Police Chief John Timoney stated prior to Florida’s passing of its now infamous stand-your-ground laws, “whether its…

During the nineteenth century schools in Great Britain were not ideal for women and even less so the lower your class. Most working class families could not afford to pay for their children 's, and especially their daughters education (McDermid, J. 2012). For the working class, girls were left with options such as Sunday schools, dame schools, and ragged schools. Girls in the upper-middle, or higher class often were taught at home with a special tutor or instructor (McDermid, J. 2012). Girls of…

a. Charlotte has strong opinions about the best way to “secure” or catch a man and get him to propose marriage. First, in your own words, describe her method of “securing” a man to marry. The way I interoperate Charlotte’s method is to deceive a man by conveying more emotions towards a man than what she really feels. She also says by doing this a man would be more willing to see the woman as a wife. Charlotte’s opinion is found in Pride and Prejudice: “We can all begin freely-a slight…

There seems to be a large amount of people in the world today that seem to believe that History is irrelevant and non-existent in our present time but you would be surprised to find out that history, or at least a part of it, is embedded in almost everything… including childhood things we used to play with or even consider “friends”. If you’re anything like me, you’ll be shocked to find out that the Teddy Bear almost every kid has had or come in contact with as a child was named after one of the…

Literary masterpiece Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë creates the perfect novel to review from a social and economic position. Starting poor and dependent on the none-so-kind Reed family for food and shelter, Jane Eyre progresses in both social status and economic wealth through her time at Lowood, into Thornfield, past Moor House and the economic prosperity that it brings, and finally into happiness she finds back at the crippled Mr. Rochester. Throughout the novel, Brontë expresses a number of…

typhus goes through Lowood and Helen dies; however, this causes Mr. Brocklehurst to leave and some gentlemen take over the school, making it a better environment which improves Jane’s life. After eight more years she decides to take a job as a governess at a manor called Thornfield. She falls in love with her employer, Rochester, and eventually he proposes to her to which she accepts. Not long after, it’s their wedding day and as they’re going to exchange vows Mr. Mason says that Rochester…

“Let them eat cake,” is part of a line that many assume was uttered by Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. This portrayal of Marie Antoinette is a far cry from the compassionate, humanitarian she preferred to be. Above all she wanted nothing more than to be a mother and had a fondness for children that no wicked queen could have. Pamphlets produced during her time as Dauphine and then as Queen has ultimately written her in a negative light, not at all the once beloved girl who had won the hearts…

idea of separate spheres, it was assumed that a woman would marry a wage-earning husband, therefore making it unnecessary for a woman to receive an education. If a woman did go to school, she typically went to a boarding school or was taught by a governess. At school girls would learn simple jobs and tasks that they would only use inside of the house such as how to sew or manage servants. Generally, girls were taught how to be polite, entertain and take care of children. With the lack of…