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    Lies and Love The main protagonist from both Jane Eyre and The Eyre Affair both deal with the struggles of achieving honest love with their respective love interest due to the unusual circumstances of the relationships. For Jane‚ her and Rochester’s relationship is not normal in any sense of the word. For Thursday‚ the issues she has with Landen are much more realistic‚ but they sting just the same. Both Jane and Thursday have their fair share of issues with their men‚ but some of them are not that

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    Bessie showed Jane that your class status in life does not affect who you are as a person. Bessie is Jane’s childhood nursemaid and the closest female figure to a mother‚ while in addition being Janes only ally when living at Gateshead. Bessie had just returned to Gateshead after she has spent some time away. They catch up by talking about their lives and everything that has changed since they last saw each other. ‘I dare say you are clever‚ though‚’ continued Bessie‚ by way of solace. ‘What can

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    This essay will look at representations of black and white women in both The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and in doing so it will also look at the distinctions between what is perceived as normal and what is perceived as deviant in the two works. In order to discuss this I will look at the characters of Jane and Bertha in Jane Eyre. This essay will discuss how they are depicted within the novel and will include works such as The Madwoman in the Attic by

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    Audrey J. Johnson ENG-393 Jane Austen Prof: Christine Hansen June 21‚ 2014 Marriage in Jane Austen’s Emma The subject of marriage and its effect on women is a topic lively debated by Jane Austen in her many books. In Emma‚ the title protagonist is the spoiled daughter of a wealthy widower who spends her time gossiping and patronizing those less fortunate. Emma is kind hearted but a touch naïve‚ and her lack of impulse control finds the young woman often causing more disorder than she intends.

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    In Bronte’s Jane Eyre‚ nature reveals Jane’s internal emotions and growth that she has difficulty expressing for herself. Bronte utilizes nature as her expression of what Jane has trapped inside. Jane finds her happiness in nature as well as the ability to grow past what she experienced in her troubling past. Nature acts as guidance for the reader to decipher Jane’s complicated emotions that she doesn’t show. Charlotte Bronte uses nature to parallel Jane’s emotions as well as her evolution from a

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    ENN203J: Jane Austen 28/02/2013 ASSIGNMENT 01: Emma STUDENT NUMBER: 51004623 The misunderstandings with regard to perception and deception in Jane Austen’s novel Emma undeniably suggest something sinister about human nature‚ given the negative effects it has on those that fall prey to such conjecture. However‚ the misunderstandings may also render the novel comedic to a certain extent because of the ironic amusement throughout‚ which involves complete misunderstandings from characters on

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    Analysis of the Theme of Jane Eyre and its Literary Devices Jane Eyre is an outstanding and meaningful novel which was written by Charlotte Bronte who didn’t have a fascinating appearance‚ a perfect figure and a glorious family and who had the similar fate with the heroine of the novel. The essay is focused on the first chapter‚ life at Gateshead‚ in which it tells us the little Jane Eyre’s miserable and menial life at Gateshead and that her cousins and Mrs. Reed treat her badly. In this

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    This passage greatly shows the stark contrast between the two women‚ the demonization of the Oriental female subject and the innocence of the English one. Rochester’s narration of his life with Bertha paints a very negative portrait of hers. He tells Jane that he was bonded with a mad Creole woman that came from a Jamaican mad and degraded family‚ having “idiots and maniacs through three generations” and a mother‚ “the Creole…both a madwoman and a drunkard!” (JE 337). Apart from her insanity‚ his disappointment

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    Jane Austen’s novels at first glance tell a story of romance set primarily within the landowning society amidst country estates‚ and their cultivation of tea parties‚ social outings‚ and extravagant balls; ladies sashaying in flowing gowns through precisely decorated rooms‚ and men deliberating over their game of whist. The storybook romance usually unfolds in these familiar settings‚ and inevitably involves the conflict of two lovers separated by differences in social class‚ and the resulting influence

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    3HOW IS YOUNG JANE PORTRAYED IN THE OPENING 3 CHAPTERS Charlotte Bronte is the author of the novel Jane Eyre about an orphaned girl struggling throughout the novel to achieve equality and to overcome oppression. In the opening 3 chapters‚ Bronte emphasizes Jane’s loneliness‚ lack of familial affection and emphasizes her sensitive nature and inner strength. As we witness Jane being punished and neglected at the hands of her unfeeling aunts and left feeling isolated and out of place in her society

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