Common Points of Bronte Sisters
Although so many disparities exist between three sisters in terms of writing style, value and reputation, they have many things in common, such as the usage of Gothic element and the theme of feminism. When considering the common features they all have, it is inevitable to mention their family and life experience.
Their interest towards literature and writing was firstly cultivated by their father Patrick Bronte. Patrick Bronte was ‘a poet, writer, and polemicist’ (Wikipedia.org), who ‘was the author of Cottage Poems, The Rural Minstrel, numerous pamphlets and newspaper articles, and various rural poems’ (Wikipedia.org). He was an intelligent person, and he studied theology, general subjects, and ancient and modern history in Cambridge. His literary attainment influenced his children deeply. When Bronte sisters were young, they were allowed to read freely whatever they like, which stimulated their passion towards literature (Wikipedia.org). Living under the background of Victorian age, disease is the essential motif commonly shared by Bronte sisters in their novels (Torgerson 1). Some diseases such as influenza, rabies and tuberculosis that can be cured now with the help of modern medicine, ‘still took a toll on human life’ in victoria age (Torgerson 1). More worse, as for the health condition in Haworth, according to Barker, the Yorkshire village where Bronte sisters lived, the morality rates was so high that was ’10.5 percent higher than what the law considered needing special attention’ ( qtd, in. Torgerson 1). Bronte family, living in such dangerous environment, inevitably was infected with deadly diseases. The first person died from the disease was their mother Maria Branwell, who was just 38 dying from uterine cancer. However, not so long from suffering that trauma, two out of five children were passed away due to tuberculosis. Maria Bronte and Elizabeth Bronte were died after they returned from Clergy Daughter’s School, where was notorious for inhumane
Their interest towards literature and writing was firstly cultivated by their father Patrick Bronte. Patrick Bronte was ‘a poet, writer, and polemicist’ (Wikipedia.org), who ‘was the author of Cottage Poems, The Rural Minstrel, numerous pamphlets and newspaper articles, and various rural poems’ (Wikipedia.org). He was an intelligent person, and he studied theology, general subjects, and ancient and modern history in Cambridge. His literary attainment influenced his children deeply. When Bronte sisters were young, they were allowed to read freely whatever they like, which stimulated their passion towards literature (Wikipedia.org). Living under the background of Victorian age, disease is the essential motif commonly shared by Bronte sisters in their novels (Torgerson 1). Some diseases such as influenza, rabies and tuberculosis that can be cured now with the help of modern medicine, ‘still took a toll on human life’ in victoria age (Torgerson 1). More worse, as for the health condition in Haworth, according to Barker, the Yorkshire village where Bronte sisters lived, the morality rates was so high that was ’10.5 percent higher than what the law considered needing special attention’ ( qtd, in. Torgerson 1). Bronte family, living in such dangerous environment, inevitably was infected with deadly diseases. The first person died from the disease was their mother Maria Branwell, who was just 38 dying from uterine cancer. However, not so long from suffering that trauma, two out of five children were passed away due to tuberculosis. Maria Bronte and Elizabeth Bronte were died after they returned from Clergy Daughter’s School, where was notorious for inhumane