THE CHARACTER SYSTEM IN CHARLOTTE BRONTË‘S NOVEL THE PROFESSOR
VILNIUS UNIVERSITY
INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
IRMA KRENCIUVIENĖ
a third-year student of
External Studies of English and English Language Teaching
THE CHARACTER SYSTEM IN CHARLOTTE BRONTE‘S NOVEL
THE PROFESSOR
Yearly Paper
Academic Advisor: Lecturer Irena Varnaitė
Vilnius, 2008 - 2009
CONTENTS
Introduction.................................................................................................................3
CHAPTER ONE. The main and minor characters and the technique of portrayal .
1.1. The problem of the hero/ heroine. (William/Frances).........................................7
1.2. Women‘s characters and their development........................................................13
CHAPTER TWO. The minor characters and their functions………………………17
2.1. The men’s characters( Hunsden a.o.)………………………………………......20
2.2. The women (Reuter, a.o.)…..………………………………………….…….....25
2.3. Episodic characters…………………………………………………………..…30
CHAPTER THREE. The problem of the narrator…………………………………...35
Conclusions……………………………………………………………………….……40
List of literature………………………………………………………………………...43
Santrauka ………………………………………………………………………………44
INTRODUCTION
Elizabeth Gaskell’s book The Life of Charlotte Brontë can be read not only as a biography, but also as a remarkable confirmation of tragedies of Charlotte’s destiny. The future writer was born in 1816 at Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire in 1816, the third child of Patric Brontë. After the success of Jane Eyre and the revelation of personality of Currer Bell, the Brontës fall into the view as a family marked by tragedies: untimely death of mother, numerous and sudden deaths of sister’s, unrequited love – all this affected Charlotte and her works.
INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
IRMA KRENCIUVIENĖ
a third-year student of
External Studies of English and English Language Teaching
THE CHARACTER SYSTEM IN CHARLOTTE BRONTE‘S NOVEL
THE PROFESSOR
Yearly Paper
Academic Advisor: Lecturer Irena Varnaitė
Vilnius, 2008 - 2009
CONTENTS
Introduction.................................................................................................................3
CHAPTER ONE. The main and minor characters and the technique of portrayal .
1.1. The problem of the hero/ heroine. (William/Frances).........................................7
1.2. Women‘s characters and their development........................................................13
CHAPTER TWO. The minor characters and their functions………………………17
2.1. The men’s characters( Hunsden a.o.)………………………………………......20
2.2. The women (Reuter, a.o.)…..………………………………………….…….....25
2.3. Episodic characters…………………………………………………………..…30
CHAPTER THREE. The problem of the narrator…………………………………...35
Conclusions……………………………………………………………………….……40
List of literature………………………………………………………………………...43
Santrauka ………………………………………………………………………………44
INTRODUCTION
Elizabeth Gaskell’s book The Life of Charlotte Brontë can be read not only as a biography, but also as a remarkable confirmation of tragedies of Charlotte’s destiny. The future writer was born in 1816 at Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire in 1816, the third child of Patric Brontë. After the success of Jane Eyre and the revelation of personality of Currer Bell, the Brontës fall into the view as a family marked by tragedies: untimely death of mother, numerous and sudden deaths of sister’s, unrequited love – all this affected Charlotte and her works.