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    false USE! Jane Eyre and WSS are romantic novels. Homage. http://trish-m.hubpages.com/hub/Bertha-in-Jane-Eyre-and-Wide-Sargasso-Sea http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/bronte_rhys.html http://www.victorianweb.org/neovictorian/rhys/gordon14.html Dreams in Wide Sargasso Sea Alan Gordon ’06‚ English 156‚ Brown University‚ 2004 [Victorian Web Home —> Neo-Victorian Authors —> Jean Rhys —> Leading Questions] This essay is Part II of Alan Gordon ’s "Dreams in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso

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    orian prose Victorian Prose The Victorian period was in the late 19th century spanning the years of 1830 to 1901‚ the years that Queen Victoria ruled over England. This was the time when industrial cities thrived and the basis of life shifted from land ownership to an urban economy of manufacturing. A mixing of social classes resulted through factory owner/worker relationships and social standing became more malleable than it was in previous periods. Monetarily the country thrived but

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    love” This quote from Reinhold Niebuhr tells of a human incapability to accomplish a deed of any sort without the assistance of love. In The Catcher in the Rye; Salinger‚ J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little Brown and Company‚ 1991 and Jane Eyre ; Bronte‚ Charlotte. Mineola‚ New York: Dover Publications‚ INC. 1847‚ both young individuals are faced with numerous obstacles in an attempt to mature. Eventually‚ the characters both come to realizations that they need love in order to grow and

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    Female Victorian women‚ in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre do not conform to their stereotype. During early Victorian England‚ women did not have suffrage rights‚ the right to sue‚ or the right to own their own property. Women were seen as belonging to the domestic sphere. This stereotype obliged them to provide their husbands with a clean home‚ food and to raise their children. When a Victorian man and woman married‚ the rights of the woman were legally given over to her spouse. Under the law

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    Christoffer Gammad Dr. Frank Fennel 4/25/2013 Out with the Old in with the New The Victorian Age transformed the minds of the people of Europe. It challenged the ideas and views they came to understand‚ it created uproars of movements and different bodies of thinking. The growth of an age can be seen through the people who’ve lived through it and how their lives have changed. England quickly became a developing world power with these movements. During the span of this semester‚ we have studied

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    presented Helen Burns as a vision of what Victorian children where expected to have acted like. She was represented as pure‚ plain and had a strong Christian faith. Elaine Showalter had the belief that Helen was a projection of ‘the angel of spirituality’ and her mind was completely pure. Helen believed that once she passed away there would be an afterlife waiting for her‚ as she has been faithful to God. Just before she passes away she has a conversation with Jane discussing this topic. Helen trusts that

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    Jane Eyre falls in love with Mr. Rochester because of her attraction to Mr. Rochester’s byronic traits. Jane lost her parents and was raised by her Uncle Reed. When her Uncle died‚ she was treated poorly by her Aunt and kids. She was finally sent to a boarding school known as Lowood. It is an all girls school that had a massive typhus epidemic‚ killing her friend. After teaching and learning at Lowood‚ she became a governess for Adelé at Thornfield. There she meets her master Mr. Rochester. The byronic

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    Beyond Despair: The Drowned Woman in Victorian Literature and Art The death of a beautiful woman is‚ unquestionably‚ the most poetical topic in the world ―Poe‚ “The Philosophy of Composition” Suicide is often portrayed as the ultimate form of despair; an action relinquishing all hope of reconciliation or salvation. Yet it was a subject that fascinated Victorians. Indeed‚ Philippe Aires notes that the staging of death as an aesthetic event was a nineteenth-century invention (466). Often mentioned

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    Jane Eyre By: Charlotte Bronte 1. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering‚ indeed‚ in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed‚ when there was no company‚ dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so somber‚ and a rain so penetrating‚ that further out-door exercises was now out of the question. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks‚ especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming

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    THE VICTORIAN NOVEL SPIS TREŚCI INTRODUCTION 1 I THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOVEL 2 II KEY AUTHORS 3 III KEY TEXTS 3 IV TOPICS 3 INTRODUCTION Many associate the word “Victorian” with images of over-dressed ladies and snooty gentlemen gathered in reading rooms. The idea of “manners” does sum up the social climate of middle-class England in the nineteenth century. However‚ if there is one transcending aspect to Victorian England life and society‚ that aspect is change. Nearly every institution of society

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