Governess

own children. According to Dr. Aşkın Yildirim, “Victorian ideology of gender rested on the belief that women were both physically and intellectually the inferior sex” (46). Women were severely limited in the variety of jobs available to them with governess,…

that deeply affect Jane’s life. Two characters in particular influenced Jane’s character throughout the book immensely. One character that altered Jane’s life completely was Mr. Rochester. When Jane first arrived at Thornfield for her position as a governess, she never expected to develop a sudden interest with the owner of the house. Even though Jane was madly in love with Rochester, she could not marry him due to the staggering discovery that he already had a wife. Jane furtively sneaks out…

During the Renaissance, the forgotten Greek and Roman culture was embraced once again. Many invested in education and the arts in hopes of creating a thriving economy (Frey 315). The Elizabethan era came to be when the young Queen Elizabeth I rose to power in 1558. Women in this time period had to meet society’s standards by marrying for power and wealth, or they would be frowned upon by peers and exposed to the accusations of witchcraft (“Elizabethan Women”). They were considered property. To…

on, she is taken to Lowood, a school for bad-behaving girls. Meanwhile, she decides to spend for eight more years, six as a student and two as a teacher. Yearning and believing that life was far more than what she had lived, starts working as a governess at Thornfield; where she falls in love with Edward Rochester, the owner. After several events and feelings regarding matters of the heart, which included the day of the wedding, it was revealed that Mr. Rochester was married and that his wife…

Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and the six Bastable children: Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Nöel, Alice and H. O. in The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit are outsiders who struggle to find an identity in society. Both Alice and the Batasble children go on an adventure to experiment with society in order to accept their identity. Thus, the children are outsiders because they do not fit in with the social norms, as Alice questions her surroundings as the only human…

Imagine going to school knowing that if you were behind on something, you would be punished. Imagine only being able to see your parents in the morning and at night, and being stuck with a nanny, who would sometimes be strict and yell or beat you. Imagine being stuck in a room all day after school, and not being able to leave. This was the life of a child of the estate during the Victorian Era. Although the child’s family may have been rich, that doesn’t mean that the child would live a happy…

to study too even though she wasn’t that interested about it. She was educated for she needs to perform gracefully at court events. Her way of life in Austria was pretty simple. Her parents were so busy that her education was neglected, and her governess spoiled her. She hated reading and showed no interest in geography or history; thus, at the age of thirteen, she could not read nor write well and did not know much history either. Her French was not that fluent and was full of German…

Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development Freud’s theory of psychological development described how the personality developed over the course of childhood. While the theory is well-known in psychology, it is also one of the most controversial. Freud believed that personality developed through a series of childhood stages in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id become focused on certain erogenous zones. This psychosexual energy – “libido” – was posited as one of the basic primal…

Each had his own following, and there were some violent debates. At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good,…