Charlotte Brontë-Jane Eyre (1847)-Chapter 14 He had been looking two minutes at the fire‚ and I had been looking the same length of time at him‚ when‚ turning suddenly‚ he caught my gaze fastened on his physiognomy. "You examine me‚ Miss Eyre‚" said he: "do you think me handsome?" I should‚ if I had deliberated‚ have replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow slipped from my tongue before I was aware—"No‚ sir." "Ah! By my word! there is something
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Biography of Emily Bronte Emily Brontë was the middle of the three famous Brontë sisters who were novelists and poets. She wrote under the name Ellis Bell Emily grew up in a society which ’were wholly dependent on ourselves and each other‚ on books and study‚ for the enjoyments and occupations of life’. They wrote tales‚ fantasies poems‚ journals and serial stories and brought out a monthly magazine‚ which Emily contributed to‚ although she was most famous for her novel Wuthering Heights
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Jane Eyre -Spark notes Chapter I Jane is an orphan. She was adopted by Mr. John Reed‚ yet he died when she was a year old. One of his last wishes was for his wife‚ Mrs. Reed‚ to look after Jane. This she does out of duty‚ but she treats Jane as less than a servant. She despises Jane for her quiet and creative character. Jane takes great pleasure from reading books‚ and is very smart for her age of ten; Mrs. Reed secretly feels intimidated by her. A child of a “more sociable and child-like disposition
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classes in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre have no way of achieving higher status unless they come across a miracle‚ such as receiving a previously unknown inheritance. This is shown in both the novels of Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist. Both of the main characters grow up in similar situations; they are both orphans and because of that fact they are treated like they were criminals from birth. Although Jane is better off than Oliver in the places that she lives‚ they both
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A classic‚ written in 1897‚ that depicts the elements of gothic literature with the ideas of the Victorian Era‚ is a horror story called Dracula. Written by Bram Stoker‚ the adventure is told in an epistolary format‚ narrated in multiple perspectives through journals‚ letters‚ and newspaper articles. Dracula was based off of a real life ruler of Romania‚ named Vlad Dracul III. It takes place mainly in England‚ but also in other various places of Europe. Moreover‚ it is about a group of seven people
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Within these three stories The Black Cat‚ The feather pillow‚ and Sharp objects‚ they all have similar literary elements: it’s dark and cryptic. They all have deep meanings and gothic elements. They are very different than the usual happy endings bullcrap‚ and they are more of the tragedy and very morbid type. There are scenes of violent and morbid/grotesque actions in the novel Sharp Objects. Actions that people of the right mind wouldn’t do. “The three blondes held Ann down‚ While Amma strangled
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Jane Eyre: Close Reading and Male Dominance in the Victorian Era There ’s a passage from Bronte ’s Jane Eyre that brings light to the patriarchal relationship between Jane and Rochester. Although Rochester has shown on multiple occasions that he has minimal control over his emotions and has the capacity to lash out‚ Jane admits her love for him and her feelings of safety around him. The scene depicts Rochester ’s dominance over Jane as he holds her‚ and without a word‚ she falls completely useless
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oldest emotion known to the mankind? That is fear. And gothic literature can be explained as fear-literature. But the true gothic tale has something more than secret murder‚ bloody bones‚ or clanking chains . So‚ let me explain how to know what is the real gothic book. First of all‚ i will give you some backround. Gothic fiction began as a joke.In 1764 author Horace Walpole first applied the word ‘Gothic’ to a novel in the subtitle – ‘A Gothic Story’ – of The Castle of Otranto‚ a short novel in which
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* Jane Eyre: The protagonist of the novel and the title character. Orphaned as a baby‚ she struggles through her nearly loveless childhood and becomes governess at Thornfield Hall. Jane is passionate and opinionated‚ and values freedom and independence. She also has a strong conscience and is a determined Christian. * John Reed: Jane’s cousin‚ who as a child bullies Jane constantly‚ sometimes in his mother’s presence. He ruins himself as an adult by drinking and gambling and is thought to have
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more liberally to the gothic conventions presented in Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest when Henry refers to Radcliffe’s passage: ‘We shall not have to explore our way into a hall dimly lighted by the expiring embers of a wood fire – nor be obliged to spread our beds on the floor of a room without windows‚ doors or furniture’ (p.114). Henry’s reference ridicules Catherine’s indulgence of gothic reading and foreshadows how she will fictionally position herself as the gothic heroine during her visit
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