Jane

I would recognize that voice anywhere. But what was he getting at? The girl responded, her voice too quiet for me to hear. This must be the infamous Jane Eyre. “But you heard an odd laugh? You have heard that laugh before, I should think, or something like it?” “Yes, sir: there is a woman who sews here, called Grace Poole, she laughs in that way.” Grace? Grace who cheerfully made my bed every morning…

Jane Addams took her talents and desire to help on a greater scale after a trip to Toynbee Hall in London with a friend, Ellen Gates Starr, the future co-founder of the Hull House. The inspiration they felt at this home for the poor was enough to be carried…

both a soul and a body,” it “repudiated both a pietism that denied the importance of the physical and societal and a moralism” (Schlossberg, 1). In the novel, Jane Eyre, the author, Charlotte Bronte provides religious figures of Evangelicalism as a way to express her disapproval of the movement. Throughout Jane Eyre, the protagonist, Jane Eyre, is presented multiple obstacles in which she must choose to…

Written Task 1 Jane Eyre Rationale I have decided to write my Written Task 1 as a diary based on the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Born on 1816, Charlotte was one of the many Brontë sisters. She was raised by her stern religious grandparents due to the death of her mother and eldest siblings. She then attended a clergy institute. Following this, she earned a living as a governess and a writer and soon after published the highly-critiqued novel ‘Jane Eyre’ in 1847 under the pseudonym…

Jane Austen’s Representations of Women There is an old saying that literature is an epistemic way to know about any culture. Literature aims to study society and gives a realistic representation of life and people who live in that culture. This study will focus on the interpretation of English culture in the eighteenth century. Each literary work focuses on different issues and has hidden purposes from presenting these issues. As such, the significance of the literature results in…

The marginalization of the female persona is exemplified particularly in Pride and Prejudice. In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice her strong female character is a reflection of the continued sense of inequality among genders. The inequality between genders is an overarching theme that the female characters are expected to succumb to. Women have limited opportunities because of societal manners and class which sets the pressure to be married. In the case of the Bennet daughters there are no…

The novel, Emma, by Jane Austen tells the story of Emma Woodhouse and the love drama in the small village of Highbury. It takes place in the early nineteenth century England, where the young adults of this town are looking for suitable spouses. Emma finds herself meddling in the love affairs of Ms. Harriet Smith and matching making a potential suitor to a sweet, candid but rather dense lady. Contrary to Harriet, Emma is an intelligent, pretty and well-a-do empress of Highbury’s social scene,…

as they were contained in small boxes. Her encounter with a chimp hiding in the back of a box and rocking back and forth in its cage led her to advocate for labs where chimps could interact and be contained in larger cages if research was necessary. Jane not only noticed the maltreatment of laboratory chimps, she persisted in making her demands for improvement known. Her determination led researchers to comply to her suggestions even if they were not originally in support of the changes (Welty,…

Jane Austen, most known for her novel Pride and Prejudice, is regarded in today’s literature as a classic novelist. She is famous for her heroine focused plots and themes that reflected the social struggles that she faced while she was alive. Born on the 16th day of December in 1775, Jane Austen was the 7th child of 8. She grew up in Hampshire along with her 6 brothers and older sister. Her father, George Austen, was a reverend for their town church. Jane and her sister, Cassandra, received a…

yelled again. Ada had started to run, and she varnished in the darkness. Friday night, just five days before, Ada read Jane Eyre, a story by Charlotte Bronte. The story was about Jane, an orphan, who lived with her aunt. Jane’s cousins, Georgiana and Eliza, despised her, and their older brother, John, tormented her too. “You are less than a servant,” a house cleaner reminded Jane. “Your father left no money. You ought to be begging in the street.” Ada remembered that story that miserable…