“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes” Hugh Prather. Life can be both brilliant and torture, sometimes at the same time, and we must learn to roll with the punches. In the graphic novel version of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Jane learns how to deal with her tragic … Read more
In today’s fast paced, technology filled life it is easy to forget that the world in which we live in was not always this way. It is hard to remind ourselves that at one point in our history, there was no electricity, women always wore dresses, and men were, without a doubt, on a higher … Read more
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys makes great use of subconscious dream. Rhys writes that Antoinette’s dreams are intertwined with reality, making the story more difficult for the reader to follow. Antoinette struggles with her emotions, not fully understanding what is real or just a dream. Antoinette’s reoccurring dream, which becomes increasingly decipherable, manifests from … Read more
Love comes along with many emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. Love is an emotional need that even Jane, from Charlotte Bronte’s book Jane Eyre, can’t ignore. Throughout the story line, Jane is searching to find love. She was looking, not just for the love of a man, but for the … Read more
The Victorian era is considered by many to be a period of intense sexual repression, as expressed in Sexualities in Victorian Britain: ‘the Victorians were notorious as the great enemies of sexuality; indeed, in Freud’s representative account, sexuality sometimes seems to be whatever it was that the middle-class Victorian mind attempted to hide, evade, repress, … Read more
The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. 1 Such powerful words were found in the famous romance novels of Charlotte Bronte. Through her novels … Read more
In Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre, the main character faces many struggles. One of the struggles she faces is the temptation to run away with the man she loves and be his mistress or to marry a man who offers her the contrary where it would be a legal and highly respectable marriage but with no … Read more
Charlotte Bronte addresses the theme of morality in the novel Jane Eyre using many characters as symbols. Bronte states, “Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. ” In Jane Eyre, Bronte supports the theme that customary actions are not always moral through the conventional personalities of Mrs. Reed, Mr. Brocklehurst, and St. John Rivers. … Read more
To fully know ones self and to be able to completely understand and interpret all actions and experiences one goes through is difficult enough. However, analyzing and interpreting the thoughts and feelings of another human being is in itself on an entirely different level. In the novel Jane Eyre, its namesake makes a decision to … Read more
The role nature played in Jane Eyre’s life parallels itself in many people’s lives. I cannot count the many instances that I was having a terrible day and the weather outside was absolutely dreary. Often, days began as sunny but turned cloudy and my mood coincided along with it. Nature constantly spoke to Jane; it … Read more
In Charlotte Bront Jane Eyre, the main character faces many struggles. One of the struggles she faces is the temptation to run away with the man she loves and be his mistress or to marry a man who offers her the contrary where it would be a legal and highly respectable marriage but with no … Read more
The novels, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, and House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, contain many similarities and differences of which I will discuss in this essay. The focus will be on the main characters of each book, Jane Eyre, and Lily Bart and will include important points and ideas demonstrated in these novels. To … Read more
