AP Literature and Composition Class Period: 3B Title of Work: Jane Eyre Author: Charlotte Brontë Date of Publication: October 16‚ 1847 Genre: Bildungsroman‚ Governess Novel‚ Gothic (Romantic)‚ Victorian (Realism) Characteristics of the Genre: Bildungsroman: A Bildungsroman is translated from German to literally mean a “novel of education.” It is a coming-of-age novel. It is clear that Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman because the novel tracks Jane’s life from the time
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Victorians towards the plight of poor orphaned children. Dickens had a personal insight to poverty‚ his father was unable to pay off the family debt. Dickens was sent to work in a factory‚ he was left without a proper education and so spent his childhood and most of his youth in poverty. Perhaps he felt his youth was stolen from him by poverty and the industrial revolution. Now we are going to look at some of the extracts from works by these authors which portray the above themes. Plan
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Many of Jane Eyre’s watersheds were contributing factors of how she went from an unloved and dependent girl to a loved and independent woman. During her times at Gateshead‚ Lowood‚ and Thornfield‚ Jane matured and found out more about herself. However‚ perhaps the most important thing that led Jane to where she was at during the end of the story was her desire for a better life. Jane’s harsh treatment during her time at Gateshead as an orphan with her aunt and her cousins‚ the Reeds‚ led
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Our interest in the parallels between King Richard III and Looking For Richard is further enhanced by consideration of the marked differences in textual form. Evaluate this statement in the light of your Comparative Study of King Richard III and Looking For Richard. William Shakespeare’s 16th century historically tragic play‚ King Richard III and Al Pacino’s 20th century docudrama‚ Looking for Richard portray parallel themes of war‚ characterisation of Richard in context and plot. Shakespeare wrote
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industrial 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
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she depended on Shakespeare’s Medieval plays to free herself from the burning coals of racial prejudice‚ and finally she found the means to make sense of her own sexuality and gender peculiarities through Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness and Jane Eyre’s Wuthering Heights. Throughout her novel‚ Maya has used these various literary works of literature to understand and cope with her challenges‚ to overcome these major pain points in her life and to emerge as one of the greatest female inspirations
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Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane 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
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colonialism . Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. It tells an alternative tale of the secret‚ first wife of Edward Rochester‚ Bertha Mason‚ alias Antoinette Cosway. Rhys’ novel is set on the Caribbean island of Dominica and addresses many issues that were current at the time of writing‚ as well as issues of society in the temporal placement of the book in 1839. Rhys constructs a thought provoking deconstruction of Jane Eyre and uses many of her own experiences as a white
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life. This archetype can be found in slightly different forms in the three novels: “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë‚ “The Odyssey” by Homer‚ and “The Plague” by Albert Camus. Each author uses the archetype‚ the journey‚ to express their own thoughts; they create an overall theme or message to influence their readers. “Jane Eyre” was written in 1847 by Charlotte Brontë. The novel follows Jane Eyre from her childhood as the family scapegoat‚ through her schooling at a poorly managed charity school
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If nothing else‚ the Cannonball Read is teaching me that the more I care about a book‚ the harder it is for me to write about it. In the light of recent personal events‚ I was having a hard time delving into Jane Eyre’s love story without my own romantic baggage weighing my interpretation down. At the very least‚ I can still say that I bristle whenever someone compares the Twilight series to Charlotte Bronte’s best known novel. However‚ I didn’t want to spend the review going on and on about how
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