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    INDER PLACE THAN THIS Phoenix could hear the lashing of swords outside her chamber as she hid under the covers of her bed. She had woken up to the sound of them. To the guard shouting something outside her room until she heard his cries of agony as he lay dying. It was then Phoenix threw the cover over herself- maybe it could protect her from the monsters outside her room. Phoenix knew something had happened to her father. He had been at war for a moon’s turn but even she knew soldiers

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    Bronte’s Jane Eyre serve the purpose of highlighting the reversal of gender roles established between Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester‚ as well as the fundamental difference between the two characters. Mr. Rochester views‚ in his fantasies‚ Jane Eyre as a “fairy”‚ to save him and take him to “the moon”. Jane Eyre views Mr. Rochester realistically‚ but does have fantastical views of the world‚ whether it be fairies leaving “notions” (103) for her or her mother reaching out to her in a dream. Jane Eyre’s

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    Dreadful magazines to German Schauerroman‚ Gothic themes‚ popularized in the Victorian era‚ saturated Romantic literature with tales of gore and spine-shivering madness. Among the plethora of authors experimenting with this genre was Charlotte Brontë‚ whose groundbreaking novel‚ Jane Eyre‚ forever changed Gothic literature. Indeed‚ the grandiose but desolate buildings and English gardens thick fog furnishing the Victorian England landscape exhibits all the signs of a proper Gothic setting. However

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    Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre; serves to underpin the fantastical nature of the bildungsroman story. In passage 3‚ Rochester’s lamentations while “sitting by the window” is reminiscent of Jane sitting in Lowood and wishing more from the world. This is expanded when Rochester describes Jane’s voice as being “spoken amongst mountains”; as Jane originally looked to the mountains and “longed to surmount” them. This parallel shows the similarities between the new Rochester and Jane‚ it reveals Rochester’s

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    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte portrays the life of a young girl named Jane Eyre and the cruelties she experiences and witnesses in her life. Jane lives at Gateshead the house of her late uncle‚ with Mrs. Reed‚ her aunt and three cousins: John‚ Georgiana‚ and Eliza. Her family at Gateshead treats her poorly‚ they abuse her and wonder why she stays with them at Gateshead. Soon they send her off to a school for girls where Jane is introduced to unfamiliar people and a diverse way of life. Three of the

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    Jessica Jones Mateo Engl 3820 Jane Eyre Essay April 23‚ 2013 Bront’s Family or Fiction: Did Charlotte BrontWrite about her Family in Jane Eyre? In the novel Jane Eyre‚ Charlotte Bront wrote about wish fulfillment. In the novel‚ Jane is never satisfied. She always needs more‚ more respect‚ more money‚ more in life. Another theme as Freud would say is that of the “Daydreaming poet.” This is where the adult dreams for more‚ but he would say that for females it is the longing for sexual matters

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    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bron​ t​ ë​   ​ 1-25 Dialectical Journals      Num.  Quote     Commentary  1  “Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass‚ protecting‚ but not separating me from the drear November day[...] rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable past.” (chapter 1‚ page 2) On page 2 of the book Jane Eyre‚ the author’s point of view is told through the eyes of a child. As we read the first couple of pages‚ the stage

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    LOVE RELATIONSHIPS Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre is typically a novel that revolves around the quest for love. There are therefore several love relationships that emerge throughout the novel‚ some romantic‚ others familial or platonic. Most of these relationships centre around Jane herself because she forms the core of the novel around whom the other characters revolve. The protagonist of the novel‚ Jane Eyre herself‚ embarks on this quest for love from the very beginning of the book. As the

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    Uminah Baja E6 Ms.Cortez February 27‚ 2012 Home Reading Assignment Worksheet 1:  What is the social problem? 1.     The social problem is: People killing themselves. 2.     Identify all the players involved in the social problem. The victims‚ the person provoking‚ and the by stander. 3.     List 3 undesirable social conditions that result from this problem: Murder‚ Suicide‚ & depression 4.     Write a short description that summarizes the social problem and explain how it affects

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    Throughout the novels Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte countless comparisons of eternal love can be made. Characters within Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre overcame the constraints society had upon them‚ what appeared to be their destinies and characters were able to overcome themselves. These obstacles were lengthy struggles that characters within each novel were faced with and went through immense pain all for love. The love that characters felt for each other

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