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her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...

In seven pages this paper examines the domestic and social views associated with the estates in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and ...

In six pages the ways in which the fairytale tradition is reflected in this novel is examined in terms of the female psyche and th...

In five pages this paper discusses how women's sexuality is represented in this nineteenth century novel and then contrasts it to ...

In 6 pages the child's worldly perspective is illustrated through Rochester's interest in one of Jane's paintings, her distant fut...

himself, the increasing dissatisfaction of his amorous affairs, the chaos of his increasingly fevered pursuit of women, and his ev...

aspects of life. The opening pages of the novel take us to Jamaica, and they are very evocative. They tell us of the beautiful, l...

has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing...

are taking place far away, or even in another room. On the other hand, a first-person narrator like Jane can speak directly to us...

to use looks as an anchor. The other thing that Jane is not is greedy. When Edward offers her all kinds of clothes and jewels, she...

In five pages this paper examines Charlotte Bronte's heroine as she strives to obtain social acceptance and love in the novel Jane...

dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...

social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upp...

she receives by her cousins, John in particular: "John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. ...

it will, it is indebted to him" (xi-xii). Charlotte Bronte believed that religious attitudes fell into two distinct categories -...

Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...

this passage from Jane Eyre, Bronte seems to be making a statement about self worth. What has precipitated this passage is that a ...

bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest ...

any fairy tale. Yet, despite it all, she ends up living "happily ever after." She gives the plain, abused, disregarded young girls...

In seven pages this paper discusses the importance of thresholds in the decision making processes featured in Mary Shelley's Frank...

In 5 pages the themes of innocence and experience as they are depicted in these Victorian and post Victorian literary works The Ho...

sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...

to see, more objectively, the struggles of her aunt and the sad state of her aunt, thus giving her the ability to be kind and comp...

this passage, the narration shifts and it is clear that the reader is experiencing the red room from the perspective of Jane as a ...

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

Bronte condemns the repressive nature of gender-based societal roles by showing how it is Janes constant rebuking of the roles int...

In five pages Charlotte Bronte's book is considered in terms of a fictional entry made by Jane's school chum Helen Burns in her jo...

feelings for her, and she knows that she feels the same. However, she knows that, though she loves him, he will never leave his wi...

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

This paper compares Charlotte Bronte's heroine of Villette with Jane Austen's heroine of Persuasion. It discusses the roles of the...