24 January 2012 Pro-social Behaviour in Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Eliot’s Middlemarch “Sacrifice is an act of giving that is necessarily reciprocated‚” says Marcel Mauss in his work The Gift (21)‚ emphasizing the fact that the gift is never free and has to be repaid. While both Jane and Dorothea‚ the main characters of two great Victorian novels‚ made their kinds of sacrifice‚ it can be concluded that those sacrifices arose from two different causes. Pro-social behaviour or “set of actions that
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Jane is a character repeatedly subjected to violence and hatred from her adoptive family‚ The Reeds. Her experiences are scary and abuse her body and her mind and eventually shape her into who she will become later in her life. She is also often undermined and taken advantage of and therefore made to feel small and worthless. ‘Roughly and violently thrust me back – into the red-room‚ and locked me up there’ demonstrates the cruelty in which Jane Eyre is treated. The use of the power of three on
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love” This quote from Reinhold Niebuhr tells of a human incapability to accomplish a deed of any sort without the assistance of love. In The Catcher in the Rye; Salinger‚ J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little Brown and Company‚ 1991 and Jane Eyre ; Bronte‚ Charlotte. Mineola‚ New York: Dover Publications‚ INC. 1847‚ both young individuals are faced with numerous obstacles in an attempt to mature. Eventually‚ the characters both come to realizations that they need love in order to grow and
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presented Helen Burns as a vision of what Victorian children where expected to have acted like. She was represented as pure‚ plain and had a strong Christian faith. Elaine Showalter had the belief that Helen was a projection of ‘the angel of spirituality’ and her mind was completely pure. Helen believed that once she passed away there would be an afterlife waiting for her‚ as she has been faithful to God. Just before she passes away she has a conversation with Jane discussing this topic. Helen trusts that
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The Year 1837 was very significant. It was not only the year that Queen Victoria acceded the throne‚ but also the year that a new literary age was coined. The Victorian Age‚ more formally known‚ was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain’s literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious‚ the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable
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Jane Eyre By: Charlotte Bronte 1. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering‚ indeed‚ in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed‚ when there was no company‚ dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so somber‚ and a rain so penetrating‚ that further out-door exercises was now out of the question. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks‚ especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming
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In the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Jane travels many places as a young woman. It begins with her at Gateshead‚ where she lives as a young child. She then goes to a private school called Lowood. Here‚ she learns many disciplines and gains wisdom. After being a teacher for two years at Lowood she wants to seek a new way of life. Jane travels to Thornfield; she meets Mr. Rochester‚ a man who causes her to mature at the young age of 18. She learns that she must start making decisions for herself
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Finding a Voice: Point of View and Narration in The Color Purple and Jane Eyre "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened‚ ambitioned inspired‚ and success achieved." Notable words expressed by Helen Keller. She mentions the character of a person must suffer through hardships in order for the soul to build up‚ like a muscle‚ and thus achieve a goal through inspiration. Whether it comes from within‚ or from someone
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In the following essay‚ I will discuss the topic of feminism and the influence it had on Victorian literature. I will present my argument in relation to the ideology of the period‚ the female intellect associated with certain literature and the criticism that such authors faced during the period. I will argue that as a result of the oppression suffered‚ female authors saw such offense as their foundation for their production of literature. I will base the bulk of my argument around the author
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The Victorian Period Queen Victoria The Victorian period formally begins in 1837 (the year Victoria became Queen) and ends in 1901 (the year of her death). As a matter of expediency‚ these dates are sometimes modified slightly. 1830 is usually considered the end of the Romantic period in Britain‚ and thus makes a convenient starting date for Victorianism. Similarly‚ since Queen Victoria’s death occurred so soon in the beginning of a new century‚ the end of the previous century provides a useful
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