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

specifically, it was an obsession as opposed to true love. What distinguishes these from each other is the element of personal sa...

sources on this topic in order to see if the literary view represents an accurate picture. The home and the marketplace were not...

my aunt shut me up in the red-room", Jane receives only comments that she should feel very lucky about living in such a fine home ...

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

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

women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; th...

Jane comments that "the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation" (Bronte 236). Roche...

to study ideas. His greatest shortcoming in this respect is that he is rather obtuse and it is quite difficult for him to have an...

she receives by her cousins, John in particular: "John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. ...

the time who had attended anything remotely resembling one (as Charlotte Bront? herself had), the abuses struck a chord of familia...

For example, when Oliver is arrested, he is never allowed to state his case or to speak, for that matter. Oliver becomes sick when...

and a novel, serve as a near-perfect example of the conflict faced by a Victorian woman in her obligations between her sense of Ch...

This paper analyses the theme of relationships between mothers and their daughters in Jane Eyre, with particular reference to the ...

In seven pages this paper discusses the importance of thresholds in the decision making processes featured in Mary Shelley's Frank...

This paper addresses the various roles of fire in three British literary works, Blake's, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Bronte's...

This paper contrasts and compares various female characters throughout the history of literature which includes Lysistrata, Jane E...

In five pages the ways in which Bronte reflects patriarchal opposition through Bertha's obvious struggles and Jane's more subtle r...

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

In 6 pages the child's worldly perspective is illustrated through Rochester's interest in one of Jane's paintings, her distant fut...

This paper looks in detail at Jane's interaction with Rochester. The writer's argument is based on the premise that the two charac...

of this is seen when she passes dandelions on the way to the store. "Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they...

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...

sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...

to the new challenges." Freud addresses this conflict with his Oedipus complex as a way of explaining certain personality traits ...

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

The character of Jane is sent to live with a relative when she is young, and then sent off to a school. She finds herself applying...

up to be a strong, intelligent, and fearless young woman who is more than a match for Rochester. Jane is passionate, yes, but not ...

Prejudice perfectly illustrates the main characteristics of Elizabeth Bennett, the main protagonist of the novel, as well as those...

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...