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    Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre incorporates vibrant descriptions of nature and weather, which intertwine literally and metaphorically throughout the novel to reflect the protagonist’s state of mind. Furthermore, Bronte’s meticulous description of everyday objects and experiences provide a world that is both real and tangible to the reader. The novel defies the expectations of social-class, and gender, and transcends various literary genres, while the setting purposely enhances the characters

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    The Gothic Features of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte A Gothic novel is a type of literature, which became very popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this time, society was governed by strict moral codes. The "Gothics" would escape into a world of dark, supernatural and wild passions. The word 'Gothic' meant barbarous and wild and many writers liked to involve these elements in their novels. Gothic novels were usually set in foreign countries

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    She finds him to be teasing and ironic. Response: I feel that Jane needs to live up to her own words of being equal to others even in beauty. She shouldn’t think so little of who she is or what she looks like. Explanation: Mr. Rochester sees Jane in a completely different light than others do. She is plain but to him she is a beauty and not just a young inexperienced girl, but a clever, frank woman. It is hard for Jane Eyre to believe such things after hearing all her life that she is simple

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    Representation of the ‘Other’ in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Abstract This study aims at examining the representation of the’ other’ as portrayed in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847). It attempts to inspect how the ‘Other’ is viewed in Nineteenth century England and the cultural ideology behind such specific representation. It poses crucial questions as to why the ‘Other’ is always represented negatively in main-stream western narrative as in the case of Bertha Mason who is portrayed as

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    During the height of the Victorian Era, in which the books Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, and the Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde, it was not uncommon for more well-off households of the era to have at least one Governess hired to help keep the younger residents educated and orderly, and to keep the servants of the manor abiding by the constructs in which the Victorian era set out for them as consistently as possible. Therefore, because the Governess was so prominent within the rich

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    Guiding Mirrors In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Bertha serves as a primary obstacle in the novel, as her marriage to Rochester is a hindrance to Jane’s emotional fulfillment and happiness. Bertha is depicted as a violent and insane woman who is kept hidden in an attic throughout the novel. Bertha’s rage eventually leads her to burn Thornfield, in which Rochester loses an eye and severely injures himself. Despite the portrayal of Bertha as an inherently monstrous figure, it almost seems

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    Character in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre When Charlotte Brontë set out to write "Jane Eyre", she boldly promised her sisters: "a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours." As promised, Jane appears decidedly plain, "so little, so pale", with "features so irregular and so marked", "sensible but not at all handsome", "queer" and "a little toad". The novel opens at Gateshead with Jane moving from childhood to puberty

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    In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, two natural elements collide, fire and ice. On the broad spectrum, in this novel, jane Eyre is the fire and Mr. Rochester and St. John are the ice, but, as we further analyze the story, we will see that most of the characters have fire and ice in them. After her parents’ death, Mrs. Reed, her cruel aunt, was Jane’s only known living relative living in England, so she moved in with her and her family. From then on, Jane had a very ambiguous position in society

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    Jane Eyre's Childhood as a Precedent for All the Trouble Jane Eyre's literary success of the time has been cheaply commercialized. In other words, Bronte's novel never got the appreciation it deserved, in the areas it deserved. Many 19th century critics merely assigned literary themes to their reviews to "get it over with". Critics commended Jane Eyre for everything from its themes to its form. However, their surface examinations amount to nothing without careful consideration of the deeper underlying

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    Weather In Jane Eyre

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    Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre incorporates vibrant descriptions of nature and weather, which intertwine literally and metaphorically throughout the novel to reflect the protagonist’s state of mind. Furthermore, Bronte’s meticulous description of everyday objects and experiences provide a world that is both real and tangible to the reader. The novel defies the expectations of social-class, and gender, and transcends various literary genres, while the setting purposely enhances the character’s

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