* Jane Eyre: The protagonist of the novel and the title character. Orphaned as a baby‚ she struggles through her nearly loveless childhood and becomes governess at Thornfield Hall. Jane is passionate and opinionated‚ and values freedom and independence. She also has a strong conscience and is a determined Christian. * John Reed: Jane’s cousin‚ who as a child bullies Jane constantly‚ sometimes in his mother’s presence. He ruins himself as an adult by drinking and gambling and is thought to have
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Douglass and Blake - Voices of the Mute Tolerance of inhumane actions has occurred throughout the entire history of the world. From one place to the next‚ there has always been a single person or a group of persons that will claim dominance over another - this is simply how institutions such as government and social classes are formed. In some cases‚ there is little argument and much agreement and diplomacy between those who are in charge and those who are under dominance of the more powerful
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Someone to Respect and Admire Blake Mycoskie Brief Background Blake Mycoskie is a young successful American author and entrepreneur who was born in August 26‚ 1976 and raised in Arlington‚ Texas with two other siblings- sister Paige and brother Tyler. Blake teamed-up with his sister‚ Paige‚ to compete on the second season of CBS’ The Amazing Race and finished in third place and split a prize of $25‚000. He started doing business while in college where he founded a door-to-door laundry service
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Charlotte Bronte’s character Jane Eyre had truly existed in that time period‚ she would have defied most of these cultural standards and proved herself a paradigm for aspiring feminists of her day. Jane’s commitment to dignity‚ independence‚ freedom of choice‚ unwillingness to submit to a man’s emotional power and willingness to speak her mind were fostered by some female characters in the novel. Yet these traits also contrast sharply with some of Bronte’s other female characters Jane Eyre can be labeled
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"Jane Eyre" is one of the most brilliant and popular novel written by Charlotte Bronte and it has successfully dealt with a number of issues that have not assumed the same poignancy in her other works of fiction. The book has handled certain very important issues such as racial discrimination‚ gender discrimination and others with great adroitness. Being centrally located around a woman most of the issues too‚ have been dealt with in context to her. To begin with‚ it is interesting to note
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Both Blake and Douglass’s poetry seem to be captivated by the themes of exploitation and cruelty‚ we can see this in these poems by both authors. The author’s stay true to the theme of exploitation and cruelty by providing the reader with a somber tune throughout all readings and providing explicit and raw scenarios that the characters were in. William Blake’s poems touch upon child labor‚ people wishing for death‚ and the somber environment that these poems take place in. Douglass’s autobiography
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William Blake’s philosophy on growth and change was that when you are born‚ you are born into a state of innocence. As you grow up you realize that the world around you is not prefect and there are dark elements to it. Blake believed that everyone needed to remember the innocence of childhood and the truth and beauty that can be seen in the world. William Wordsworth believed that before we were born‚ we existed in a pure world‚ something like heaven perhaps and as we grow up we forget about this
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Looking at two or more poems by William Blake consider what makes these works Romantic. “Romanticism... is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.” Blake was born into a state of social change an ‘Age of Revolution’ and his poetry certainly reflected his strong opinion of how society was being oppressed by political and cultural influences. He believed that the
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Jane Austen has attracted a great deal of critical attention in recent years. Many have spoken out about the strengths and weaknesses of her characters‚ particularly her heroines. Austen has been cast as both a friend and foe to the rights of women. According to Morrison‚ ’most feminist studies have represented Austen as a conscious or unconscious subversive voicing a woman’s frustration at the rigid and sexist social order which enforces subservience and dependence’; (337). Others feel that her
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Romantic Period’s cultural‚ social‚ and historical events were integrated into literature. Popular forms of styles and values found in The Romantic Period are: imagination‚ emotions‚ belief in children’s innocence‚ and nature as beauty and truth. William Blake expressed these in “The Songs of Innocence” and “The Songs of Experience” in 1789 and 1794. William portrayed oppression and loss of popular values during this time period through his publication of poems. The Romantic period was a literary movement
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