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The Theme of Forgiveness in Bronte's Novel, Jane Eyre

to see, more objectively, the struggles of her aunt and the sad state of her aunt, thus giving her the ability to be kind and comp...

Diverse Views of the Latter Nineteenth Century Black Woman's Experience in Slave Women of the Fields and Charlotte Forten

occurring in this era between slavery and freedom. We learn from both Forten and Schwalm that many African American women were in...

'Middlemarch' and 'Villette' Acting and Performance Comparison

how the authors use the notion of acting and performance to highlight truths about the demands of society and how such a loss of i...

Seeking to be Free in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin'

was lived during her time. Her work deals a large amount with the oppressiveness women felt within their married lives and their d...

Visitor Studies and How They Developed

seek to attract the public. Visitor studies can be seen as historically categorised and studied in terms of the educational per...

Literature of the Victorian Age

evolving its consumer values, wrote the poem as a demonstration of how society was responsible for illustrating female desires as ...

Charlotte Smith's 'Written at the Close of Spring'

May new buds and flowers shall bring; (I)/ Ah! why has happiness--no second Spring? (I)" (Smith 1-14). As we can note, at least...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Religion

it will, it is indebted to him" (xi-xii). Charlotte Bronte believed that religious attitudes fell into two distinct categories -...

Classic Literature and the Gothic Motif

Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...

Hypothetical Letter to a Mental Patient

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

Jane Eyre and The Yellow Wallpaper in Respect to Haunting

The Bronte and Gilman writings are discussed. The significance of haunting in each is the focus of attention. This eight page pa...

Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte Articles Reviewed

this passage from Jane Eyre, Bronte seems to be making a statement about self worth. What has precipitated this passage is that a ...

'Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution,' 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

that females should function in subordinate and often demeaning roles in comparison with men (Readers Companion to American Histor...

Perceptions of Jane Eyre

bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest ...

Bronte's Jane Eyre and Female Emancipation

her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...

Similarities and Differences in Yellow Wallpaper and A Rose for Emily

This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...

Post Rochester Identity of Jane Eyre

In five pages this paper discusses the novel by Charlotte Bronte with a focus upon the different identity Jane forges after learni...

Fantasy to Postmodern Evolution of Children's Literature

In eight pages the evolution from fantasy to postmodern in the children's literature genre is considered in an examination of The ...

Paternal Figure Edward Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

In seven pages this paper discusses Jane Eyre's psychological longing for a father figure and how Rochester satisfied this criteri...

Romantic Literature and the Idealization of Children

In ten pages this paper examines how children were idealized in the romantic writings of Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Charlotte...

Gender Issues in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

Ushers ultimate fall. "[The house had] an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from t...

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte's Literary Estates

In seven pages this paper examines the domestic and social views associated with the estates in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and ...

Bildunsroman in 'Great Expectations' and 'Jane Eyre'

In 6 pages, this essay discusses how the coming-of-age is presented in these novels by Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, with ...

Isolation in Jane Eyre and Frankenstein

The theme of isolation as it is featured in these novels by Charlotte Bronte and Mary Shelley are compared and contrasted in nine ...

Important Social Theorist Harriet Martineau

in this way she is like Comte and Spencer in choosing society but unlike them in her addition of feminist ideals such as the femin...

Conflicting Marital Perspectives in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar befo...

American Experience and Relationships Between the Sexes in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Daisy Miller by Henry James

In five pages this paper discusses how the American experience defines gender relationships in a comparative analysis of these two...

Romantic Era Poetry and the Child

This paper considers the child as conceptually represented in the Romantic Era poetry of Charlotte Smith, William Blake, and Willi...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Fairytale

any fairy tale. Yet, despite it all, she ends up living "happily ever after." She gives the plain, abused, disregarded young girls...

19th Century Literature A Comparison of Heroines from Two Stories

This paper compares Charlotte Bronte's heroine of Villette with Jane Austen's heroine of Persuasion. It discusses the roles of the...