Bronte When Catherine states, "It will degrade me to marry Heathcliff," she exposes her prejudices and concerns about social status. She has yet to develop a mature level of self-awareness. Moreover, Catherine indicates a predisposition toward melod Continue Reading...
Catherine's passionate speech to the listless and ignorant Nelly is a proof of the force of this passion. She realizes that Edgar's kindness and gentleness is unsuitable for her own nature: "I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to Continue Reading...
Bronte and Rhys An Extended Conversation Most conversations we hold in person, sitting next to another as we travel on a train to an unknown or familiar destination, or as we enjoy a coffee break at work, or wait at a busy corner for the light to t Continue Reading...
Rochester was burned and maimed in a fire set by his first wife who had all this time lived in the attic of the house guarded by a nurse. The man who once had the confident gait is seen standing blindly in the rain as Jane approaches the house after Continue Reading...
Charlotte Bronte's first novel entitled "The Professor." The paper describes the novel's basis, its narrator and key characters. In addition to a description and a general assessment of the book, the paper includes fundamental analysis and interpre Continue Reading...
Helen and Miss temple are appealing to Jane because she discovers something in both of them to which she feels she should aspire. Upon overhearing a conversation between the two women, Jane writes, "They conversed of things I had never heard of: of Continue Reading...
Cathy is, although temporarily lowered to a servant when Lockwood first meets her, was brought up from birth by her father to be a refined young girl, and Hareton is the rightful owner of the estate he inherits, not a true orphan and stable boy like Continue Reading...
Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre the main character Jane is faced with many difficulties while attending Lowood School that force her to strengthen her resolve to persiveer in spite of many obsticles. While initially Jane is eager for an escape fr Continue Reading...
17 With wide-embracing love 18 Thy Spirit animates eternal years, 19 Pervades and broods above, 20 Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears. 21 Though earth and moon were gone, 22 And suns and universes ceased to be, 23 And Thou wert left Continue Reading...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is a Gothic novel that tells the tale of Victor Frankenstein and his creation. As seen in other Gothic works, Shelley employs the supernatural as her character of Dr. Frankenstein creates a mons Continue Reading...
Emily Bronte's Heathcliff and Catherine: Passions of love and hate. The classic novel Wuthering Heights is as long-lived as the spirits of its main characters, Catherine and Heathcliff. Emily Bronte has an ability to articulate the story through th Continue Reading...
Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre illustrate Jane's troubled beginnings as an orphaned girl. The narrator of the story, Jane describes her being raised by her cruel aunt Mrs. Reed at the family's Gateshead Hall. At only ten years old, Jane's format Continue Reading...
Domestic Relations and Domestic Abuse -- the clear-eyed vision of alcoholic dissipation of Anne Bronte's the Tennant of Wildfell Hall According to the posthumous introduction to her final novel, The Tennant of Wildfell Hall the Victorian author Anne Continue Reading...
Heathcliff's Character In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights This paper focuses on Heathcliff's character in Emily Bronte's only novel. 'Wuthering Heights' with reference to views expressed by some critics. Heathcliff is generally considered a villain Continue Reading...
Jane and Bertha also share other characteristics that emphasize Bertha's significance in the novel. As an adult, Jane comes to certain realizations about her life and the world in which she lives. First she realizes that men and women are basically Continue Reading...
Wuthering Heights, read "Remembrance" Emily Bronte compare actions feelings Heathcliff final chapter Wuthering Heights feelings speaker final stanza "Remembrance." The essay-based sources: "Remembrance" (Emily Bronte) Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte Continue Reading...
Jane describes Rochester as " a dark face, with stern features, and a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted" (pg. 99). Jane is attracted to the callous and slightly domineering nature of Rochester, this residual inter Continue Reading...
Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy demonstrate that conventionality is not morality, and self-righteousness is not religion. The dichotomy between religion and righteousness is a central theme of Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre. Continue Reading...
Wuthering First, list quotes from the passage that are either diction or detail. Diction: "a poor conclusion" "having brooded awhile on the scene he had just witnessed" "an absurd termination to my violent exertions" " train myself to be capabl Continue Reading...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Heathcliff is one of the most fascinating characters in Wuthering Heights, an ineffable masterpiece of Emily Bronte. More than any of the other characters, Heathcliff is subject to multiple extremes -- he feels love Continue Reading...
Abandonment in Shelley's Frankenstein and Bronte's Jane Eyre: a Comparison Abandonment is a substantial theme in literature written by women. It appears in the poems of Emily Dickinson, in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and in the novels o Continue Reading...
What Jane Eyre Does for MeJane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, has a unique ability to engage me and evoke strong thoughts and emotions largely thanks to its depiction of complex characters, themes and symbols. Jane Eyre is a very large and long storyso t Continue Reading...
Jane Eyre and Orientalism The quality of Orientalism in Jane Eyre is that of the exotic, wild and impassioned element that lurks both within the mysterious character of Mr. Rochester and his imprisoned/insane wife in the attic. The "oriental" charac Continue Reading...
As she explains to the reader: "I felt no fear of him, and but little shyness. Had he been a handsome heroic-looking young gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioning him against his will, and offering my services unasked. I had har Continue Reading...
343). This same pious fellow who reports in his letter that he hears God announcing His approach is also the picture of imperial majesty, brave, stern, and exacting, and of course only working for the betterment of those he is bringing into his empi Continue Reading...
In each case, marriage for the woman has less freedom than for the man. After all, the woman cannot even properly (as Elinor evidences) express her deep-seated affection or attachment to a man, unless he has first approached her. A woman cannot init Continue Reading...
Character Comparison Comparison: Revenge and its Motivators in Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights are two of the most significant literary works in history, both maintaining the abili Continue Reading...
. . I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!' (139). Perhaps the scene of Heathcliff digging up her grave eighteen years after her death is the most compelling because it represents the force of their love and how time or distan Continue Reading...
Mother in Wuthering Heights" by Margarret Homans, and "Myths of Power: A Marxist Study on Wuthering Heights" by Terry Eagleton, rely very heavily on their respective critical paradigms in their analysis of Bronte's novel. In some ways, to fully unde Continue Reading...
GOTHIC NOVEL & JANE EYRE According to E.F. Bleiler, "Before Horace Walpole, the word 'gothic' was almost always a synonym for rudeness, barbarousness, crudity, coarseness and lack of taste. After Walpole, the word assumed two new major meanings Continue Reading...
1847, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is structured like a puzzle. The title page reads Jane Eyre: An Autobiography but the work is credited to Currer Bell, an apparently male pseudonym. The author's involvement with the text is therefore signposted fr Continue Reading...
..(Lamonaca, 2002, pg. 245) Within the work is a clear liberalization of Jane's ideas of spiritual fate and a challenge to the standards of the day, of a wife as a spiritual and physical subordinate to a husband. Jane's insistence on a direct, unme Continue Reading...
Cultural Reflection of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre In Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, we are introduced to a timid, insecure orphan child who is set extraordinary odds to find happiness and eventually love in 19th Century England. Jane Eyre is Continue Reading...
Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, the desire of the protagonist to be loved is overpowered by her desire to be independent and autonomous. The difficulty, of course, is that Jane Eyre is first published in 1847: this was a world in which the humbl Continue Reading...
Gender and the 19th c English novel The question of gender in the nineteenth century English novel is complicated by consideration of more recent late twentieth century theorizing about gender. In particular, Judith Butler's highly influential notio Continue Reading...
Wuthering Heathcliff descends into madness during these episodes. He has become consumed with rage and vengeance. In Chapter 27, he holds Catherine, Nelly, and Linton hostage and forces Catherine and Linton to marry. Chapter 28 switches its focus fr Continue Reading...
Wuthering read greatest depiction perfect, true love. It read a critique sort love. Explain sides debate. Include direct quotations. Paraphrase everuthing, quotations unparaphraseable . Impossible love in "Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte's 1847 no Continue Reading...
shades of colorful descriptions, the prevalent mood, characters of Jane and Rochester as portrayed by the author as well as the use of language and image patterns in the novel Jane Eyre penned down by the popular author of the Victorian and the cont Continue Reading...
