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    personal lives as stimulus when writing works of fiction. As seen in the classic author Charlotte Brontë and her novel Jane Eyre (1847) and also for the contemporary author Kathy Reichs. While Jane Eyre is a novel telling the life story of its title character‚ it is mostly based upon aspects of Brontë’s life. Kathy Reich’s uses her life and personally traits to develop the main character and her life in her novels as well. There are a few reasons why women use this technique but it all comes back to the

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    rights men of that same time period enjoyed. In Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre”‚ the outlook on the restraints women faced was transformed through the development of her main characterJane‚ as the author focused on the different aspects of imprisonment experienced in her life through the character interactions at different stages in the protagonist’s life‚ expression of views on societal norms‚ and comparison of parallel characters to deviate from a society’s belief that a woman’s place was not in

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    How Does Jane Eyre Mature

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    Charlotte Brontë portrays Jane Eyre in many different lights‚ some of which change. She matures into a wonderful woman. What started off as attention issued‚ dependent‚ emotionally volatile child‚ grows into a woman. She eventually learns to know what she deserves‚ know how to state her opinions maturely and‚ how to be independent. Jane Eyre starts off as an immature child‚ but as she grows that changes dramatically. Jane starts as a gratification seeking child. This shows when Jane is mortified and depressed

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    Clarke‚ Micael M. "Bronte’s Jane Eyre and the Grimms’ Cinderella." SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 40.4 (2000): 695-710. Clarke explores the similarities and importance of Brontë’s use of the Grimms’ version of Cinderella within the story of Jane Eyre. She outlines how the two stories are parallel and then skillfully explores the symbolism that is present in both. Through her analysis of the ways the two stories are similar‚ Clarke concludes that the combination of

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    Set in the nineteenth century‚ Jane Eyre describes a woman’s continuous journey through life in search of acceptance and inner peace. Each of the physical journeys made by the main characterJane Eyre‚ have a significant effect on her emotions and cause her to grow and change into the woman she ultimately becomes. Her experiences at Lowood School‚ Thornfield Hall‚ Moor house‚ and Ferndean ingeniously correspond with each stage of Jane’s inner quest and development from an immature child to an intelligent

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    novels Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte countless comparisons of eternal love can be made. Characters within Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre overcame the constraints society had upon them‚ what appeared to be their destinies and characters were able to overcome themselves. These obstacles were lengthy struggles that characters within each novel were faced with and went through immense pain all for love. The love that characters felt for each other was able to conquer

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    school where Jane is sent by her aunt is the penitentiary for which the red room was the tribunal. Lowood represents sexual diminishment and sensual discipline thee he girls are systematically starved and deprived of all sensory gratification In 1824 both Charlotte & Emily attended the clergy daughter’s school at Cowan Bridge for 10 months. The recollection of childhood at this school forms the model of lowood institution which Jane attended for eight years in the novel Jane Eyre. Jane is sent away

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    actions might have an impact on you. In Jane Eyre written by Charolotte Bronte‚ there is a female who is highly disliked by her aunt. There could be many reasons for that‚ one being jealously. Throughout this story we‚ the readers‚ see the many people that Jane comes in contact with‚ for instance‚ Mrs. Reed‚ Helen‚ and Adèle and we see

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    “The four settings in the novel reflect the four stages in Jane’s life”. In light of this comment‚ discuss in the importance of settings in Jane Eyre Setting is an essential feature of Jane Eyre‚ and a key method in which Bronte constructs bildungsroman throughout the novel‚ showing Jane’s progression. The names alone of the four settings give us a significant insight and foreshadowing of what Jane’s future holds for her. For example Gateshead may suggest a barrier which she can’t go through or

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    was male-dominance.  Male dominance certainly seems to be an overarching motif in Wide Sargasso Sea. It is everywhere and is covered throughout the text as an analytical thought or a reflective idea rather than having been physically being mentioned in a written form. In Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys explores the oppressive‚ male-dominated society of the 19th century and uses the overarching motif of male dominance to reflect the influences and impressions it leaves on the key female characters in the

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