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    your father left you none; you ought to beg‚ and not live with gentlemen’s children like us” (Brontë 7). She still remains in this class position when she attends Lowood school‚ which is a school for orphans. At the age of eighteen‚ she becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall‚ and her position changes. Since she earns her money by teaching a pupil‚ her position moves upwards somewhere between the working class and the middle class (Godfrey 857). In the rich Mr Rochester she meets her future husband

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    of his first memory. The stream of consciousness style works to display Stephan’s naïve and youthful views. In the first chapter of the book‚ when Stephan is very young‚ he tells his family that he would like to marry the neighbor girl. Stephan’s governess Dante becomes very angry with Stephan for making this statement. Although Dante is angered because Stephan’s neighbor is a protestant and Dante is a passionate Catholic‚ the reader sees the anger as inexplicable‚ the event is foreign and not explained

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    Children DBQ In early modern Europe‚ various assumptions were made about children and how to raise them. Some families went with detachment‚ tender love‚ or cruelty. All of these assumptions‚ more or less‚ affected child-rearing practices. In the 1550s in Florence‚ Italy‚ Benvenuto Cellini describes a time where he visited his natural‚ born in wedlock‚ son. “..when I wanted to leave he refused to let me go.. breaking into a storm of crying and screaming” “I detached myself from my little boy

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    after her place of birth Greek. William Edward and Frances‚ both being quite intellectual‚ couldn’t find a governess for Florence and Parthenope to satisfy William’s “intellectual requirements” or Frances’ “standard of elegance and breeding.” Instead‚ William taught them history‚ grammar‚ composition‚ and philosophy‚ along with the languages‚ Greek‚ Latin‚ French‚ and Italian. They hired a governess only to teach the pair music and art. With Florence having inherited her father’s intellectuality she

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    Gender and sexuality in 19th century Victoria England was a far cry from 20th century England today. Throughout the 19th century Victorian England period men and women’s part in Victorian England society was marginal split to a huge divide‚ one of the biggest splits in society to probably ever happen until the forthcoming future. Before the sharp divide in society it was very familiar for men and women to work one on one with each other in the same place of work‚ this would normally be a family business

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    In that city is the estate of Lavrenty Mikhailovich Kologrivov‚ a rich silk merchant. Kologrivov has 2 daughters‚ Nadya (who is 15) and Lipa (who is the younger) along with servants and a governess who live with them in the estate. When Nikolai and Ivan are strolling through the park‚ the see a train halt in the distance at an unusual place. On that train an 11-year-old boy named Misha Gordon was traveling with his father‚ Grigory Osipovich

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    The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H.Lawrence The story‚ set in England is told to us by an omniscient narrator. We learn of Hester‚ a beautiful woman who ‚ despite starting with all the advantages‚ had no luck. Hester had married for love‚ but that “turned to dust”‚ she also had three beautiful children. We are told that she is incapable of loving her children‚ or anyone else. It bothers her that she feels this way towards her children and she make effort to show extra care and worry towards them

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    Bildungsroman is a novel genre that narrates a hero or heroine’s process of psychological maturation and focuses on experiences and changes that accompanies the growth of the character from youth to adulthood. "The term "Bildungsroman" was introduced to the critical vocabulary by the German philosopher and sociologist Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1941)‚ who first employed it in an 1870 biography of Friedrich Schleiermacher and then popularized it with the success of his 1906 study Poetry and Experience"

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    People without families often associate with and after time‚ integrate themselves into other families. In Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities‚ Mr. Lorry‚ an aging banker‚ and Miss Pross‚ a spinster governess‚ spend time with the Manette family and eventually become a part of the family. Mr. Lorry becomes close friends with the Manettes after reuniting Lucie‚ a member of the Manette family‚ with Dr. Manette‚ her father who unjustly spent 18 years locked in the Bastille. Miss Pross‚ who took care

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    period were oppressed and seen as inferior beings and Jane Eyre is one of the first feminist novels. Firstly‚ it is written in the female narrative which was not very common at that time‚ additionally from the perspective of a middle class woman; a governess. The fact that this book is so unconventional and such a daring book for that time alludes to the fact that Charlotte Bronte was trying to get a message across here to the society which immediately renders the society’s attitudes one of the most

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