The Woman Upstairs By Charlotte Bronte

Throughout time, the moon has been seen as an important symbol in Western culture. Due to the moon’s constant presence every night, it has come to be associated with death and rest. Furthermore, it is seen as a symbol of beauty and perfection that cannot be attained by humans. Finally, the moon’s cyclical movement has caused it to be representative of emotions, time and change. In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, the moon appears in many different circumstances. Early in the novel, the moon foreshadows the failure of a relationship between Heathcliff and the older Catherine. As the novel unfolds, the moon’s appearance begins to reveal the true inner nature or state of characters. Finally, the moon begins to symbolize the impact of change, or the lack of change, over time on the characters of Heathcliff and the younger Catherine. Throughout Wuthering Heights, Brontë uses the cosmological body of the moon to foreshadow the inability to attain perfection, to reveal the truth about certain characters, and finally to demonstrate effects of change on humans in order to emphasize the power of nature in the lives of humans.

The phases of life are described uniquely in the novel “Shirley.” At first glance, you don’t necessarily think that Charlotte Bronte is trying to describe life, but when you analyze it, it is a beautiful way of describing life and the changes that happen throughout it. Bronte uses personification, hyperboles, and a well written syntax and diction to describe these different phases.

The book, Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl starts off by introducing the us to a slave girl who is known as Linda who represents Harriet Jacobs. The books narrates the life Harriet who was born into slavery in 1813 near Edenton, North Carolina. The time period where racial slurs had been widely and slavery was very popular. She had not know she was a slave girl until the solid age of six years after her childhood had been demolished. The main idea for publishing this book was to show the hardship she had faced through her childhood and growing up as a slave. The book is suppose the appeal the sense of empathy towards those that still suffered in slavery or are still suffering in third world countries and provide a better point of view to historian. It was written for everyone to show compassion through her enslaved brothers and sisters. Chapter 1 starts off by introducing a girl that had lived a great life until her mother had died at the age of 6 and she is sent to work for the mistress her mother had worked for all her life and live with her Grandmother. The Grandmother had raised $300 dollars and the mistress had borrowed that money from her. Eventually the mistress dies and instead of letting all her slaves free in her will she gives her slaves to relatives. The slave girls is inherited by a five year old girl. The main point of this first chapter was to argue and support the suffering of slavery. The young girl who had only lived six years of her life is basically

My Antonia is a novel published in 1918 by Willa Cather. This novel tells the story of Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant in Nebraska in the late 1800s. Although My Antonia is fictional, it is based on Willa Cather’s youth in Nebraska. As Jim Burden did in the book, Willa Cather moved from Virginia to Nebraska as a child to live with her grandparents. The town of Black Hawk symbolized Red Cloud in Cather’s youth. Willa Cather also attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

In the story My Antonia, by Willia Cather, she tells a story through the life of her friend growing up in Nebraska. The setting of the story was familiar, because it takes place in Nebraska. While I was attending Timber Lake, Antonia reminded me of a student. Today, we have much more ways of communicating with each other which makes the distance between people not seem as far. All in all, I enjoyed the book My Antonia.

Presently, society is constructed in such a way that the upper class and the lower class cannot work to change places unless they are extremely fortunate. The ladder of society has always existed in this manner, and many authors have chosen to explore what pushing the constraints of a set society will do. In Wuthering Heights, a novel by Emily Brontë, the social constraints of the community in which the characters live, are constantly being pushed as the characters change social classes, through marriage and hard work, and in the treatment of other characters. The actions are often motivated by a superficial impression; many interactions between the characters are based on the influence of social classes, and the changes that shift the characters from one social class to another which Brontë occurs as an overlaying theme in the story. Brontë illustrates the differences in the classes using the literary devices of imagery, symbols, dialogue, and irony. A change in the social class for a certain character leads to a change in the interactions with that character.

As can be seen from the rest of the paper, Villette by Charlotte Brontë is undeniably a unique book. The style with which Miss Brontë writes is very characteristic of one obsessed with the opinions, thoughts, and judgments of others. She also incorporates large amounts of imagery into her writing giving the reader a very clear picture of the events that transpire. A clear example of this can be seen in Miss Brontë’s description of M. Paul’s quiet, burning anger: “Something—either in my continued silence or in the movement of my hand, stitching—transported M. Emanuel beyond the last boundary of patience; he actually sprang from his estrade. The stove stood near my desk, he attacked it; the little iron door was nearly dashed from its hinges, the fuel was made to fly” (Brontë 231). Quite a dramatic scene comes to mind after reading such a statement where “…her combination of emotional sensitivity (and) disregard of others…” gives this book a wandering style with what many would say had no point (Cohn). Miss Brontë tends to be expressively wordy. While this is not necessarily a negative to her writing, it can be at times. A single sentence can encompass a multitude of meaning.

The setting of A Lost Lady is the beautiful prairies and flyover regions of the United States. These open areas of rolling hills, grasslands, and wildflowers are often overlooked, but are none the less a pleasant view, as well as an important part of America’s history. Another aspect of America’s history that is often overlooked, but not as pleasant, is the idea of gender roles and the objectification of women. In Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady, Mrs. Forrester is able to break through and overcome such objectivity that her husband, Captain Forrester, and her younger friend, Niel Herbert have placed on her.

Susan Myer’s central argument is that the racial other and stereotypical white woman of the nineteenth century, have both been excluded from social structures and subjected to an oppressive disempowerment of the British empire. She argues that in Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë employs a metaphorical link, an intersection of gender and race, between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff in order to identify their shared limitations and oppression while exploring their potential powers of resistance to social structures of British imperialism. Catherine and Heathcliff are both victims of suppression and subordination, Heathcliff through the expressed superiority of the British empire toward alien or dark races and Catherine through a domestic and

Vengeance at Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, includes character with vengeful motivations during two generations of conflict. The novel exhibits vengeance by Heathcliff towards several people, but his main motives are towards Edgar Linton, who married Catherine Linton, when Heathcliff loved Catherine. Mr. Heathcliff’s evolving vengeance started with Hindley Earnshaw, Catherine’s brother. Edgar Linton despised Heathcliff due to talking harsh to his wife and his daughter. While there are several conflicts in the story, the main conflict is the rivalry between Heathcliff and Edgar Linton.

Just like what I answered in the previous questions, we, women, tend to change ourselves to the person that our partner wants us to be because we think that is what we should do for love. We do our best just to be enough for him. This is why think this message was sent and why it should be shared. Love isn’t about being someone you’re not just for him to appreciate you.

Woolf, V. (1929). A room of one 's own. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co

In Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë explores how Jane wants to find love--not just romantic love but to value and sense of belonging. The book challenges how the language of middle-class love affects the way a character’s self-identity can alter the action, how Jane sees herself later when she found love and sense of belonging as independent women. When Jane was a child she struggles to find her own identity Jane begins to change through her journey once she realizes her own identity and this helps her recognize where she belongs and that she seek independence.

Bette Davis said, “When a man gives his opinion, he 's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she 's a bitch.” Feminism was always looked at as women fighting for the same rights that men have always had. A lack of feminism is just the opposite. Someone losing their femininity by allowing themselves to conform to men, to break the bond every women has gone through to break the barriers. In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Catherine shows her flaw in femininity over how her conformity to every man to show society 's 'norm ', her quest for money and not love, and she is foolish for thinking men can rule her life.

During the novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë created the traditional values of what Jane lives by and what she has to live by. The start of the novel starts off with Jane Eyre, a ten year old orphan whose living with the Reeds. With different phases of Jane’s life span occurring and different characteristics of Jane developing, she is at a place where she isn 't familiar with. In the years when she was living with the Reeds, they always showed her the ways on how they think she should live, instead of how she needs to live in order to develop into someone that is able to be independent in the future. Many times, she is constantly pushing past the Victorian Era normality and standards at the beginning of the novel. Even though at the end