Jane Eyre

Continuing to reach out to blind students outside of New England, Howe travelled to Ohio, Kentucky, New Orleans, and even to the halls of Congress in Washington. During his conversations with people as he toured the country, he was asked his opinion of asylums. His response reflected the evolving Dr. Samuel Howe: The more I reflect upon the subject, the more I see objections in principle and practice to asylums. What right have we to pack off the poor, the old, the blind into asylums? They are…

Choosing to Deprive the Self of Joys in Life: The Complexity of Lucy Snowe in Villette In Villette, Brontë gives readers the account of protagonist Lucy Snowe, a complicated and, at times, emotionless woman who is forced to express herself while holding on to virtue and her Protestant convictions. In their critical observation of Lucy’s character as a whole, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, who wrote The Madwoman in the Attic, comment about Lucy being a woman, “from first to last. . .without”.…

Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt By: Aubrey Zozaya #33 HER Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York, New York. She died on November 7, 1962, at the age of 78 in the same city. She was born into a wealthy, but dysfunctional family. As a child, she was a shy girl and suffered an extreme loss. Her mother died in 1892 and her father died in 1894, she was very young when her parents died. Her grandma criticized Eleanor’s looks which lowered her self-esteem and made her become…

Theodore Roethke has a love for Jane but not a romantic love. A love more of admiration of the person she was. He uses aspects of nature to describe her greatest qualities. oh how he talks so highly of her, shy to talk at first Jane was but "once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped her" as if they have been awaiting eagerly for her to talk this whole time. This indicates that when Jane spoke everybody listened with great interest including Theodore. "Her song trembling the twigs and…

Jane as a young child, and often as a young woman as well, has a tendency to overanalyze things in an effort to take, what she considers to be, the reasonable path. From a very early age Jane has learned that her aunt and extended family harbour no feelings of affection for her and so she has formulated other ways to achieve this kind of intimacy. Jane confides that: To [my] crib I always took my doll: human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I…

In her nineteenth century novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte makes a point of utilizing several different spaces for her setting. Although each is different from the others, they are all similarly homes or places in which someone can be housed. For instance, the story begins in Bretton, at the home of Mrs. Bretton. Lucy lives here for some time, until she finally moves on to work for an elderly woman, Miss Marchmont. Finally, Lucy finds herself as a teacher at a boarding school in Villette.…

Jane, as a protagonist, is extremely assertive and passionate with strong principles. Her refusal to permit society to mould her into traditional roles of femininity, her immense self-respect and zero submission towards those who mistreat her – all of these…

An Analysis of the Fiery Depths of Pearl Prynne “There was fire in [Pearl] and throughout [Pearl]”(84). Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, is young in The Scarlet Letter; however, she proves to have a large personality. Hester and Dimmesdale were not married when they conceived Pearl and Pearl has grown up in a single-parent home, knowing not of her father’s identity. eaders of The Scarlet Letter will notice that in the novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne, presents…

Asakaze Nishimura
 11th English IB SL, Core 4 Mr. Donovan
 May 23, 2016
 LIT Essay Introduction Word Count: Relationship and the 3 Primary Conflicts Between Mrs. Alving and Oswald In Ghosts, Mrs. Alving is usually considered the protagonist of the play; however, she is a protagonist dealing with two responsibilities and exploring two opposing philosophies. They are life as a mother and the responsibilities that go with it and freedom to be who she really wants to be. On the other hand Oswald…

Wuthering Heights, first and only novel written by British author Emily Brontë, was published in England in the year 1847. Emily Jane Brontë was born on the 30th of July 1818 in the north of England. Emily and her siblings were educated at home by their father and aunt due to the death of their sister Elizabeth, who caught typhoid while being at school. Furthermore, Emily was a very unsocial individual; she didn't have many friends and didn't quite enjoy travelling either since it made her feel…