With detailed analyis of Jane Eyre and a wider referance to Turn of the Screw compare and contrast the presentation of Gothic in both texts. Throughout Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre there is a presentation of a gothic theme. The ‘Red Room’ is Janes room of torture‚ because Mrs Reed banishes Jane to that room every time she’s done something wrong. The ‘Red Room‚’ I feel has a gothic atmosphere because of the way it is portrayed‚ Bronte uses a lot of red to describe the room‚ hense the name ‘Red
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Xee Xiong Rogers Eng. III 16 April 2013 The Renowned Female Authors of the Victorian Era Writing is more than just clusters of words that fill the blank expanses of white pages but rather for expressing the fleeting imagination of the author’s mind. The Victorian Era‚ a time named for Queen Victoria’s reign in England from 1837-1901‚ was an era that had advancements in many fields‚ from science to literature (Rahn)‚ earning it the name of the Second English Renaissance and the
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a pupil at the school at Roe Head‚ but she left school the following year to teach her sisters at home. She returned to Roe Head School in 1835 as a governess. In 1838‚ Charlotte left Roe Head School. In 1839 she accepted a position as governess in the Sidgewick family‚ but left after three months and returned to Haworth. In 1841 she became governess in the White family‚ but left‚ once again‚ after nine months. Upon her return to Haworth the three sisters‚ led by Charlotte‚ decided to open their own
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“No governess! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! I never heard of such a thing.” (Austen 130) In this quote‚ Lady Catherine is speaking with her recently arrived guest‚ Elizabeth. They are conversing of the fact that the Bennet’s did not have a governess to educate daughters‚ clearly surprised. This quote can be seen as a characterization of Lady Catherine. It represents her high class demeanor‚ as she is always expecting top of the line service. It is
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In Henry James’s novel‚ The Turn of the Screw‚ the governess takes the motherly role of trying to protect Miles and Flora from the “devilish” ghosts that she encounters at Bly. She takes this stance of protecting the children to gain favor with the uncle. “It was a pleasure at these moments to feel myself tranquil and justified; doubtless‚ perhaps‚ also to reflect that by my discretion‚ my quiet good sense and general high propriety‚ I was giving pleasure – if he ever thought of it! – to the person
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inferior to men during this time and only through marriage did they hope to gain power and upward mobility. Typically‚ upper class women in the Victorian Era were married to men in their own social class to ensure wealth and status. When Jane becomes a governess‚ she endured a more rigid part of upper class society’s expectations than when she was in the lower class at Lowood. Through social norms‚ she is inferior
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upon the governess’s marginalized position within the middle-class home‚ and Rebecca Solomon’s 1854 The Governess extends the sexual connotations of the theme by depicting the governess as stealing a look that is both longing and covetous toward her male employer while he‚ at least for the moment‚ manages to focus his gaze on his wife.15 Poovey maintains‚ ’That representations of the governess in the 1840s brought to her contemporaries’ minds not just the middle-class ideal she was meant to reproduce
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a nurse or a "nanny". The nanny and the children occupied a separate wing or floor of the house. Ideally‚ the wing or floor had a day nursery‚ one or more night nurseries for children of different ages‚ bedrooms for older children and their governess‚ and a schoolroom or older children’s sitting room. The fully staffed nursery had additional nurserymaids‚ a schoolroom maid‚ a laundress‚ and sometimes a cook. The reason children were separated from adults was that they were to be sheltered
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Sharon Moss History of Childcare Institutions and Qualifications 1/1/2011 Assignment 1.2 “Really Useful Knowledge” History of Childcare Institutions and Qualifications During this essay I will be outlining the history of childcare institutions and qualifications and how they have developed in relation to the needs of the country‚ family needs and society. I will be looking at the following occupations wet nurses‚ governesses
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Fiction in Henry James`s “Paste” Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. American Modernism 4 3. Henry James (1843-1916) 5 4. Paste 8 5. Fiction in Henry James 10 6. Paste analysis 12 6. Conclusion 14 7. Bibliography 15 1. Introduction In my term paper I will primarily discuss Henry James and his short story Paste. Firstly‚ I will focus on the time he wrote the story and than I will describe his life and his three major writing phrases. Next‚ I will go on with giving the most important
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