The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall By Helen Graham

Women who had no claim to wealth or beauty received the harshest of realities in America’s Victorian era. Author Charlotte Bronte – from America’s Victorian era – examines and follows the life of a girl born into these conditions in her gothic novel Jane Eyre (of which the main character’s name

In its simplest form, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre tells the story of a young woman, Jane Eyre, who grows up poor, makes the decision to be independent, does so, and, eventually, marries rich. The novel follows her from her childhood to her reunion with the love of her life and she, throughout it, deals with classism and sexism and exhibits her own form of feminism. By the end, it becomes clear that, with this semi-autobiographical novel, Charlotte Bronte was providing a criticism on society’s discrimination toward those of a lower class, a subtle argument against the male-dominated society’s treatment of women, and an even subtler call to action for women to find their own agency outside of the men in their lives. On another end, however,

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall contains one of the earliest examples of marital abuse written in the Victorian Era. It prominently displays women being abused, separated from society and their subsequent solitude. The author, Anne Brontë, did not shy away from certain ‘taboo’ topics, like alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and sexual assault and has been criticised for it, even by her own sister Charlotte. Domestic violence has been around for many years and yet it was, and still is, treated as a forbidden subject that should be handled quietly and without causing a commotion. Anne Brontë does not ignore these issues. She gives a clear look at how someone can change overtime and how the effects of alcohol are not to be taken lightly. The Tenant

To contain a life, or even some fraction of it, in a single book is certainly a tall order among tall orders. But Jane Erye is so thoroughly and immersively suffused with the minutest realities of adolescence and early adulthood that I can’t help but see every life in it. The eponymous heroine’s story is mine, yours, his, hers, theirs, anyone’s, everyone’s. Analyzing the novel via Virginia Woolf’s literary catechism, however, yields something of an oddity. For all its banal but tangible plausibility, which was so many pages and episodes and humanities in the making, Brontë’s novel does not accord with the ideals Woolf crusades for, namely concepts that the latter refers to as “integrity” and “incandescence.” Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre embraces many feminist views in opposition to the Victorian feminine ideal. Charlotte Bronte herself was among the first feminist writers of her time, and wrote this book in order to send the message of feminism to a Victorian-Age Society in which women were looked upon as inferior and repressed by the society in which they lived. This novel embodies the ideology of equality between a man and woman in marriage, as well as in society at large. As a feminist writer, Charlotte Bronte created this novel to support and spread the idea of an independent woman who works for herself, thinks for herself, and acts of her own accord.

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Novels are necessarily demonstrative as they give form to a world totally at the author’s disposal not to assert his point but to display it and thus memorable, relatable, and complex books reinforce the author’s point through every action or thought of the main character allowing their meanings and implications to transgress their temporal restrictions. Charlotte Brontë successfully escapes the fetters of her historical period in Jane Eyre which provides meaningful and dense passages that illuminate Jane’s character through her description, analysis, and interaction with her environment, constantly pushing Jane’s inner conflict to the foreground, making her stream of consciousness the constant that unifies the whole work. The feud between

For many years, Anne Brontë’s literary works have been viewed as classics of English literature. Brontë had a unique way of being able to portray realistic situations in her poems and short novels (PoemHunter, 2014). She was not afraid to bring up the realities behind male alcoholism and brutality in her most famous pieces of literature, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. In addition, she also wrote several poems including Farewell, A Prayer, and Confidence. Anne Brontë is part of a literary dynasty with her famous sisters Charlotte Brontë, known for writing Jane Eyre, and Emily Brontë, known for writing Wuthering Heights. Although Anne Brontë is thought of as the least talented Brontë sister, she has continued to dominate English Literature for almost 200 years (Devaney, 2014).

Jane Eyre, often interpreted as a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age story, goes further than the traditional “happy ending,” commonly represented by getting married. Instead, the novel continues beyond this romantic expectation to tell full the story of Jane’s life, revealing her continual dissatisfaction with conventional expectations of her social era; as a result, many literary critics have taken it upon themselves to interpret this novel as a critique of the rigid class system present in 19th century Victorian society. One literary critic in particular, Chris R. Vanden Bossche, analyzes Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre through a Marxist lens, asserting the importance of class structure and social ideology as historical context and attributing this to the shaping of the novel as a whole. This approach of analysis properly addresses Brontë’s purposeful contrast of submission and rebellion used to emphasize Jane’s determined will for recognition as an equal individual.

Jane Austen is well known as a novelist for her satirical representation of female characters in late Georgian society. During this period, novel writing and reading was still a controversial topic, and as such was incorporated in her book Northanger Abbey (1817), which has at its core a young female protagonist obsessed with novels. We can clearly interpret Northanger Abbey as Austen’s satirical response to the social conventions decrying novel reading, as she uses an intrusive narrator and more subtle supplementary techniques to comment on and satirize the debate surrounding novels.

“I am no bird and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will” (Bronte, Jane Eyre 293). In the Victorian time period Charlotte Bronte lived the unequal life as a woman, like many others. The only difference is Bronte did not believe in living in inequality, and she wrote about her hardships in her literature. In her book, Jane Eyre, the reader can see many similarities in her main character’s life and her own. Jane Eyre has many ways of showing how Victorian women were expected to be and act, included in the life of Jane. Bronte also continues her portrayal of the inequality of women and the decision of love versus autonomy through two of her poems, “Life” and “The Wife’s Will.” Charlotte Bronte displays the inequality in life of women in the Victorian era by taking her life and revitalizing it into themes of her works, by providing a journey of discovery of love or autonomy.

Literature can embody time, start a revolution, or be used as a coaster under the flattest fizzless cup of Pepsi. It can tell historical triumphs or new wave gyres, yet in each of these examples, literature has a single and simple purpose. It is easy to tell time through a book because a reader can simply glance back out their window to check. It is easy to grab a group of friends read a guidebook on revolution and paint some signs. A hipster might think it’s chic to take an old copy of Peter Rabbit, cut it into a circle, and proudly place his Pepsi atop. These examples are easy, but again, these forms of Literature are old. A myth with new literature is that it cannot tell time, rebel, or be cut up as quickly. Modern literature is confusing, bewildering, wild, and beyond the page. Difficulty is the hand that puts the books, short stories, or poems down after one may pick them up. Yet, modern British literature can be especially trying and monstrously influential because the authors did not only challenge their peers or their government, but the universe. A strategy to challenge the universe must first challenge the reader. If someone needed a clock, they would be able to find it within May Wedderburn Cannan’s “Rouen”. If someone wanted to rebel against the world, a reader would be able to discern a reasonable direction in William Butler Yeats’ “Easter 1916”. If someone needed a coaster, they would be able to find the one piece of Literature accepting of its’ new purpose

This essay will explore the function of setting in Jane Eyre, and will argue how Bronte used setting to portray, the oppression of women in a patriarchal Victorian society. The settings of Gateshead and Thornfield will be discussed in detail, to emphasise how Bronte’s representation of her heroine’s Gothic imagination depicted the feminist issues of the time. In addition it will consider differences, and similarities, between the protagonist Jane Eyre as ‘The Angel of the house,’ and the antagonist Bertha Mason as ‘The Madwoman in the Attic’. To ruminate this discussion, it will consider the critical essays of Robert B Hellman, Gilbert & Gumar, and Mary Poovey.

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre emerges with a unique voice in the Victorian period for the work posits itself as a sentimental novel; however, it deliberately becomes unable to fulfill the genre, and then, it creates an altogether divergent novel that demonstrates its superiority by adding depth of structure in narration and character portrayal. Joan D. Peters’ essay, Finding a Voice: Towards a Woman’s Discourse of Dialogue in the Narration of Jane Eyre positions Gerard Genette’s theory of convergence, which is that the movement of the fiction towards a confluence of protagonist and narrator, is limited as the argument does not fully flesh out the parodies that Charlotte Bronte incorporates into her work. I will argue that in the novel