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    very nature had a community focus as its ambition was to purify the Church of England and instill a new definition of righteous living in its adherents. Dorthea’s religion was on the austere side‚ similar to that practice by St. John in Bronte’s Jane Eyre. She wore severe clothing without ornamentation on the clothing or her person and she was devoted to projects of doing good for the villages surrounding the farming estates. Dorthea’s religious background gives her earnest motives; she is not motivated

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    Do you know what is the strongest and the oldest emotion known to the mankind? That is fear. And gothic literature can be explained as fear-literature. But the true gothic tale has something more than secret murder‚ bloody bones‚ or clanking chains . So‚ let me explain how to know what is the real gothic book. First of all‚ i will give you some backround. Gothic fiction began as a joke.In 1764 author Horace Walpole first applied the word ‘Gothic’ to a novel in the subtitle – ‘A Gothic Story’ – of

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    eventually comes to loathe Antoinette. Through his actions and words‚ he mentally tortures this fragile woman and causes her madness. Perhaps if the pressure for financial gain was not so imperative to Rochester‚ he might have waited for his ‘Jane Eyre’ and not felt pressured into marrying for wealth. Many of Rhys’s minor

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    that there are people out there in your life that truly do care about you. It is a nice to know that there will be someone there to pick you back up when you need it. Finding those loving relationship with people is something that Jane faced in her life in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. She never truly had the relationship with someone who truly cared. However she reached her happiness when she finally did get that relationship when she found her long lost family members. This is only one example

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    suggested less inhumane measures be taken. Not in the speech itself‚ but his efforts yielded no avail. The bill was passed. Brontë Context: Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet‚ born on April 21‚ 1816. She is most famous for her work‚ Jane Eyre. In this reading of an excerpt of her novel‚ Shirley‚ a mill owner named Moore is hated by the common worker for the way he goes about his operations. He chooses to use modern machines that require less workers than previous operation standards.

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    Introduction p.2 1.Jane Eyre p.2 2.Jane Eyre and the Gaze p.3 2.1. Foucault‚ Gaze and Jane Eyre p.3 2.2. Jane Eyre and the Returned Gaze p.4 3.Jane Eyre and Subjectivity p.6 3.1. Subjectivity as Jane Eyre ’s Strength p.6 3.2. Childhood as Roots to Subjectivity p.8 3.3. Criticisms p.8 Conclusion p.10 Bibliography p.11 Introduction All Charlotte Brontë needed was a woman who would openly speak

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    occurs when Jane learns from Mrs. Reed that her parents lived in poverty. Mrs. Reed asks if Jane would like to go live with her parents instead of in the well-off Reed household‚ leading to this reflection. This quote shows that Jane has a stereotypical idea in her head about the impoverished. It foreshadows Jane’s desire for a higher place in society late on in the book‚ where it is a primary

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    Cited: Staples‚ Brent. “Just walk on by”. Patterns for college writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell‚ eds. 12th ed. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s‚ 2012. 240-43. Print. Bronte‚ Charlotte. “Jane Eyre”. Ed. Margaret Smith. Oxford: Oxford UP‚ 1998.

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    Jane Goodall Jane Goodall is one of the world’s most admired women‚ acclaimed scientist‚ and conservationist (www.nationalgeographic.com). The work that she does is called ethology‚ which is the study of animal behavior. Such a successful woman has numerous admirable qualities. She has contributed greatly to society as well as to the animal kingdom. Her research paved the way for countless primate studies‚ and has changed the way many people view chimpanzees. Trying to narrow down only three

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    Charlotte Bronte’s Villette is described by Steven Millhauser as a “story of two unconsummated loves” however “beneath this plot runs a darker story” this is expressed through Bronte’s descriptive writing and is clearly evident in this passage. Villette was Charlotte Bronte’s final novel written at a time of great loneliness for Bronte which is directly paralleled within the novel. Bronte particularly highlights the effects of language and imagery in this passage; using symbolism to form an image

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