Blanche ingram although a minor character plays a very important role in the novel Jane Eyre. Blanche was the daughter of one of Edward Rochester’s distant neighbors. She was a socially high class woman‚ a socialite whom Rochester courted in order to make jane jealous. Blanche ingram is first introduced in the novel by mrs.fairfax. it is her description about blanche’s beauty which creates a curiosity in the mind of jane as well as the readers.mrs Fairfax describes blanche to be the most beautiful
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Monster? In “Jane Eyre‚” the character of Bertha Mason serves as an ominous representation of uncontrollable passion and madness. Her dark sensuality and violent nature contrast sharply with Jane’s calm morality‚ and it is no surprise that Bertha’s presence at Thornfield is a key factor in transforming Mr. Rochester into a stereotypical Byronic hero. Moreover‚ Bertha’s marriage to Mr. Rochester serves as the primary conflict of the novel‚ and it is only after her death that Jane is able to achieve
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first sentence of Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune‚ must be in want of a wife." This rather plainly expresses women not simply on their own‚ separate from men‚ but as wives. Jane Austen goes on the write‚ "this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families‚ that he is considered the rightful property of some or other of their daughters." This goes to show that parents were quite willing to marry off their
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souvenir - the monkey’s poor - which Sergeant-Major Morris brings back from his travels. The monkey’s poor has unforeseen consequences‚ and after Mr. White makes his first wish‚ there is no turning back. Charlotte Bronte‚ most famous for her novels Jane Eyre and Villete‚ writes about Napoleon Bonaparte‚ a real life soldier‚ being accompanied by a ghost on a frightening journey in which Napoleon needs all his courage and determination. Charles Dickens‚ also famous for multiple novels he wrote such
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another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”(Albert Schweitzer) In both of the novels Les Miserables and Jane Eyre‚ there were characters who sparked ideas and philosophies for the others in the story‚ as well as the sparking ideas for the reader. In Jane Eyre‚ one of the most influential characters in the whole stories was Helen Burns‚ and in Les Miserables an important central character is that of Cosette. These two supporting
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APPRECIATION OF ENGLISH LITERARY TEXTS SRI RAHULA BALIKA MAHA VIDYALAYA – MALABE SECOND TERM END EXAMINATION GRADE TEN – THREE HOURS Answer question ONE and FOUR others selecting one from POETRY‚ PROSE and FICTION. 1. Answer all the questions in PART A and PART B PART A a. “But she is in her grave‚ and‚ oh‚ The difference to me!” I. Where are these lines taken from? Who has written them? II. Who do “she” and “me” refer to? III. What is the difference felt by him? b. “Says he‚ ‘The
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Bronte Quotes”). This quote ties in with Charlotte’s personal perspectives on life. Bronte believed in being a person who speaks out for what she values most‚ no matter if her opinion is against the larger majority. “Bronte published her first novel Jane Eyre in 1847 under the manly pseudonym Currer Bell” (Biography.com Editiors). Charlotte’s novels have now become classics in today’s English literature. Charlotte Bronte was a famous poet and novelist mostly known for contradicting society through her
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19th century to this day. Therefore‚ in this paper I am going to analyse the evolution of the Byronic hero that appeared in Childe Harold‚ into that variations noticeable in the Victorian literature‚ more precisely those in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre written by the Brontë sisters. His dark characteristics are what make the original Byron ’s hero different from the traditional idea of a hero‚ even though he retains his heroic virtues. However‚ the original idea has slightly changed over time.
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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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