Jane Mallett

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte is a story about a youthful orphan, named Jane Eyre, who was living an awful life with her aunt and cousins, the Reeds. Jane’s character developed throughout the novel. Bronte acquired the buildup in her characters by the multiple locations in the novel, since the settings mostly reflects the human’s emotions. The different locations Jane encountered had a huge impact on her character and the mood throughout the story. The novel started at Gateshead Hall, where…

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” I know in some ways this sounds corny, but this is true in Pride and Prejudice; Jane Austen’s legendary literary work. Austen began to write while she was in her teens and only her family knew of her authorship of her novels during her life. During her time, women didn’t have much ways for self-improvement, and the only way to obtain this was to marry young men with lots of…

Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls is a series of novels by Meg Cabot the New York Times bestselling author that is best known for writing over 80 novels in the children's, young adult, and adult genres. Meg was born in Bloomington, Indiana but lived in Carmel, California and Grenoble in France before she moved to New York after getting her fine arts bachelors degree from Indiana University. She worked fro a decade at the New York University where she was assistant residence hall director an…

Mount Pleasant “Mount Pleasant” is a story about the little girl Elizabeth, who moves to a new house with her fami-ly consisting of Elizabeth, her sister Lena, their parents and “Big Alec”. Mary-Louise Buxton wrote the short story 2005. Elizabeth, who thinks the house is haunted, tells the story. It is hinted that she and her sister is being abused, but it is never told directly. The story is told through the eyes of a child and therefor the main theme is “life as a child”. The story has a…

Many psychoanalytic theories may be applied to Charlotte Bronte’s, Jane Eyre. Evidence of psychology cannot only be found in Bronte’s characters, and throughout her entire novel. Psychology can be applicable to Jane Eyre, through Bronte’s childhood, and also using psychoanalytic theories surrounding literature. Charlotte Bronte wrote in a way that reflected her own life. She was not normally healthy as a child which heavily influenced her writing. Tragedy was a large part of Bronte’s life,…

time period that her novels Jane Eyre and Villette were written in, the Victorian Era, women had no value, so being a female author was not only a huge accomplishment, but a huge step forward for women around the world. In her works, she was very outspoken about the oppression of women, and the themes and plots reflect this. Women were expected to aspire to marriage, and many of them would marry only for money. Education…

Fay Weldon's 1984 epistolary novel, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen 1984, has a striking resemblance to Jane Austen's, Pride and Prejudice 1813, in terms of the contexts of Regency England and the contemporary society to emphasise the ever-changing nature of values. Over a 150 years later, audiences can still identify Austen's portrayal of moral challenges regarding the value of education and the importance of self-determination. Weldon has appropriated in a mono-context through…

Introduction This case is about the Roxanne Quimby, who is the founder of the Burt’s Bees, a company that manufactures the handmade crafts and beeswax product. At first, Burt’s Bee was located at Central Maine. Later, she shifted the company in North Caroline. However, now she is in dilemma whether to go back to Central Maine or not. Before she founded Burt’s Bee, she was the black sheep of the family. While every family member was a successful business person, she was not interested in…

centuries.. I´m going to discuss the subjects women issues and social classes that were in these two periods in Great Britain. To strengthen my examples, I´m going to use two versions of the Mansfield Park series and the the novel Persuasion written by Jane Austen. The British time periods We can divide British time into smaller time periods, for instance Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Georgian and Victorian. Within the Georgian period from 1714 to 1837 we find an even smaller period called the regency…

Blanche is the main protagonist of A Streetcar Named Desire. She has a quite complex character which consists of stark contraries. She is dreamy and refined, educated and naive, childish and calculating, self-confident and shy, or angelic pure and immoral at the same time (Poppe 60). She grows up in a sheltered atmosphere with her sister, Stella, at the plantation Belle Reve. The name "Belle Reve" means "beautiful dream" in French and represented a wealthy and beautiful manor at that time. With…