Jessica Fish Mrs. Sullivan English 9H Period 3 30 January 2017 Title Nineteenth century women were expected to be quiet and reserved‚ but there were some exceptions. Jane‚ of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre‚ is one of these exceptions. In her early life‚ Jane endures harsh treatment from her aunt and cousins‚ so she is sent away to boarding school in order to escape them. Later‚ she becomes a governess to a young girl‚ but leaves after romantic complications with her employer. Eventually
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With age comes change. This is especially true for Jane in Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is a dynamic character that changes from a mistreated‚ spirited little girl to an mature‚ independent woman with her own values. Jane Eyre grows throughout the novel. Other characters help her along her path of change‚ whether they are friend or foe. Jane is at first a young child that is completely dependent on others at and is trampled on and mistreated by the antagonists‚ Mrs. Reed and her
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Eyre intertwined In Wide Sargasso Sea‚ author Jean Rhys uses intertextuality to tell the story of Antoinette Mason. Intertexuality is when an author bases their book/novel off of another text. In this case‚ Wide Sargasso Sea is shaped from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and it elaborates on the character of Bertha‚ who is Antoinette Mason in Rhys’ novel. By reading Wide Sargasso Sea we are enlightened on things in Jane Eyre that Bronte does not tell us about or elaborate on. Also‚ by reading
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Bibliography: Charlotte Brontë. "Jane Eyre". 1994. Puffin Classics Edition‚ Penguin Books Ltd‚ London‚ England.
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revolution was allowing people to undermine and overcome hitherto rigid class boundaries. Finally‚ Bronte depicts the ways in which women are challenging their traditional roles. Throughout the novels Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte countless comparisons can be made. Both novels are stories of love and how this powerful emotion was able to overcome countless obstacles. These obstacles were lengthy struggles that characters within each novel were faced with and went through
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(along with citations). Elevated diction (including strong verbs correct spelling‚ grammar‚ and punctuation) is expected. You should write using varied sentence lengths and types. Use this website (http://www.literature.org/authors/bronte-charlotte/jane-eyre) to copy/paste your assigned text into this template. Each entry will include * one passage excerpt‚ * handwritten annotations‚ and * a typed 7-10 analysis * with a thesis statement and * at least
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Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald can be compared by what is valued by each character in the novel. Prestige‚ wealth‚ and education are some of the few things deemed important in each novel. In Jane Eyre‚ there is the notion that social status is analogous to wealth. During the novel‚ Jane is a poor girl who never holds any distinguished positions. As she is planning her wedding‚ Jane is worried because she can’t
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Charlotte Brontë uses Jane Eyre and Helen Burns as foils to each other in her novel‚ Jane Eyre. To the audience‚ the two characters appear to be complete opposites due to the stark differences in the philosophy they have on life and in their actions. Despite not having much in common‚ Jane and Helen become good friends and Jane even learns some very important life lessons from her friendship with Helen. Furthermore‚ Helen Burns acts as the representation of an ideal Christian child‚ which has the
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Jane Eyre 1.)“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips‚ and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think‚ because I am poor‚ obscure‚ plain‚ and little‚ I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth‚ I should have made it as hard for you to leave me‚ as it is now for me to leave you. I am not
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It seems that the author‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ based the thought of the story on her own personal experience in the nineteenth century. It was described how the wallpaper reduced the narrator’s imagination and artistic abilities‚ restrained them (Bak‚ par. 19). "The Yellow Wallpaper"
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