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Bronte condemns the repressive nature of gender-based societal roles by showing how it is Janes constant rebuking of the roles int...
be reciprocated. In spite of the fact that she fully understands the unlikely nature of such a relationship, this does not deter ...
In five pages a character analysis of Jane Eyre and how her development progresses in 5 different environmental settings are prese...
instance, is that she will feel safe if she is hidden, and may feel prone to attack if she is seen. It would seem to balance the ...
are taking place far away, or even in another room. On the other hand, a first-person narrator like Jane can speak directly to us...
is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...
This paper looks at the role of the mysterious St John in Bronte's Jane Eyre. The two characters are presented as having lives whi...
In seven pages this paper discusses Jane Eyre's psychological longing for a father figure and how Rochester satisfied this criteri...
feelings for her, and she knows that she feels the same. However, she knows that, though she loves him, he will never leave his wi...
this passage, the narration shifts and it is clear that the reader is experiencing the red room from the perspective of Jane as a ...
"sympathize" with her, as she was the opposite of them in "temperament, in capacity,...a useless thing, incapable of serving their...
This paper considers the similarities and differences between Jane in Jane Eyre, and Antonia in My Antonia by Cather. This eight p...
In seven pages this paper examines the domestic and social views associated with the estates in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and ...
This paper addresses the various roles of fire in three British literary works, Blake's, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Bronte's...
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...
In six pages the ways in which the fairytale tradition is reflected in this novel is examined in terms of the female psyche and 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 use looks as an anchor. The other thing that Jane is not is greedy. When Edward offers her all kinds of clothes and jewels, she...
In five pages this paper examines Charlotte Bronte's heroine as she strives to obtain social acceptance and love in the novel Jane...
social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upp...
combined with his perception of Jane, makes him think a bit more deeply about his character when he tells her to go to the library...
keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...
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...
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...
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...
it will, it is indebted to him" (xi-xii). Charlotte Bronte believed that religious attitudes fell into two distinct categories -...
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...