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  • Jane Eyre and the Price She Pays

    Jane Eyre and the Price She Pays

    Written by Charlotte Brontл “Jane Eyre”is hailed by many as the first work where a female character truly portrays a heroine. The novel is also seen as the perfect courtship work. It tells the highly clichй story of what happens of “boy meets girl.” While the novel also creates a woman who has been proclaimed a mold breaker by many, it does come with a dark side. The main character, Jane constantly asserts her independence,

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    Essay Length: 639 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Jane Eyre - Analysis of Nature

    Jane Eyre - Analysis of Nature

    Jane Eyre - Analysis of Nature Charlotte Bronte makes use of nature imagery throughout "Jane Eyre," and comments on both the human relationship with the outdoors and human nature. The Oxford Reference Dictionary defines "nature" as "1. the phenomena of the physical world as a whole . . . 2. a thing's essential qualities; a person's or animal's innate character . . . 4. vital force, functions, or needs." We will see how "Jane Eyre"

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    Essay Length: 2,091 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Steve
  • Early Feminism in Jane Eyre

    Early Feminism in Jane Eyre

    Introduction Charlotte Bronte has long been considered as an outstanding woman literary figure in the Victorian time. Despite of the largely autobiographical content of her novels, Charlotte Bronte breaks the conventional, and ignorant in the nineteenth century. Her novel, Jane Eyre, has been translated into many languages and is always high in reading popularity. The highly acclaimed Jane Eyre best demonstrates the breakthrough: its heroine is a plain woman who possesses the characteristics of intelligence,

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    Essay Length: 2,994 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Yan
  • Views on Female Marriages in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre

    Views on Female Marriages in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre

    Views On Female Marriages in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre ўс. Introduction There were two great novels about love and marriage coming into being in the 19th century ---- Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, which were written by Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte. The two books give us two womenЎЇs totally different concepts of love. 1.1 The main content and background of Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice is actually a love comedy,

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    Essay Length: 6,486 Words / 26 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Love as a Theme in Jane Eyre

    Love as a Theme in Jane Eyre

    Love is an important theme in the famous novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Jane's love for Rochester is clearly noticeable throughout the novel. But Jane's true love for Rochster becomes appearent in only a few of her actions and emotions. Although it may seem Rochester manipulated her heart's desire, this can be disproven in her actions towards him. Jane followed her heart in the end, by returning to Rochester. Jane's true love for

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    Essay Length: 505 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Steve
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre talks about her Reeds Family and Rivers family in the novel. We will talk about her experiences with both families and how it helped her shape her tomorrow and to be her true self. Jane Eyre begins her story as an orphan being raised by her uncles family. Mrs. Reed is the head of the family after death of her husbund. She is forced to keep Jane within her family beacuase of the

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    Essay Length: 367 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre In what ways is Jane Eyre like or unlike a gothic novel? Gothic novels were around from 1764 until about 1820 the gothic novels were said to have started with the castle of otranto by Horace warpole in 1764. Some features that can define a gothic novel are things such as terror, mystery, the supernatural, doom, death, decay, haunted buildings, ghost’s, madness, hereditary problems and so on. Jane Eyre is not a gothic

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    Essay Length: 258 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Summary Jane Eyre is a coming-of-age novel about an orphan child that must face the challenges of life alone. It begins with the main character ten year old Jane Eyre living with her deceased uncle’s wife and miserable children. Jane’s Aunt Reed is a cruel woman who withholds any form of love and acceptance from her. Her son John physically and verbally abuses Jane which causes her to develop into an unhappy and overly mature

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    Essay Length: 450 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Edward
  • Jane Eyre, the Victorian Cinderella

    Jane Eyre, the Victorian Cinderella

    Do you know a child that would not be able to continue the well known opening phrase of various fairy tales ‘Once upon a time...’? One thing every society, culture and nation has in common is a wealth of fairy stories and folk tales of our ancestors that are part of our collective consciousness and subconscious thoughts. The serious interest in folklore among the British intellects was spurred by the translation of the stories, in

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    Essay Length: 887 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Ten-year-old orphan Jane Eyre lives unhappily with her wealthy, cruel cousins and aunt at Gateshead. Her only salvation from her daily humiliations, such as being locked up in a "red-room" (where she thinks she sees her beloved uncle's ghost), is the kindly servant, Bessie. Jane is spared further mistreatment from the Reed family when she is sent off to school at Lowood, but there, under the hypocritical Evangelicalism of the headmaster, Mr. Brocklehurst, she suffers

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: regina
  • Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

    In Charlotte Bronte’s, Jane Eyre, Jane goes through numerous self-discoveries, herself-realization and discipline leads her to a life she chooses to make her happy. Jane Eyre has a rough life from the start. Forced to stay with people who despise her, Jane can only help herself. Jane must overcome the odds against her, which add to many. Jane is a woman with no voice, until she changes her destiny. The novel Jane Eyre, by Charlotte

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Jon
  • Short Summary Emilys Bronte Jane Eyre

    Short Summary Emilys Bronte Jane Eyre

    Ten-year-old orphan Jane Eyre lives unhappily with her wealthy, cruel cousins and aunt at Gateshead. Her only salvation from her daily humiliations, such as being locked up in a "red-room" (where she thinks she sees her beloved uncle's ghost), is the kindly servant, Bessie. Jane is spared further mistreatment from the Reed family when she is sent off to school at Lowood, but there, under the hypocritical Evangelicalism of the headmaster, Mr. Brocklehurst, she suffers

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    Essay Length: 710 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Jane-Bertha Link in Jane Eyre

    Jane-Bertha Link in Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre” is one of the most brilliant and popular novel written by Charlotte Bronte and it has successfully dealt with a number of issues that have not assumed the same poignancy in her other works of fiction. The book has handled certain very important issues such as racial discrimination, gender discrimination and others with great adroitness. Being centrally located around a woman most of the issues too, have been dealt with in context to

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    Essay Length: 2,315 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    The Author Charlotte Bronte uses her novel Jane Eyre to criticize many of the contemporary social issues during the Victorian era. The experience of Bronte as child living in a boarding school served as the basis for the novels most vivid criticism. Charlotte Bronte uses Jane Eyre to demonstrate the Hypocrisy of Mr. Brockelhurst at Lowood to criticize the treatment of the lower class in Victorian society. The basis of Lowood draws on the experiences

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    Essay Length: 338 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre, is constantly being pushed towards being subversive, something that characterized the women of the Victorian era. However, Jane uses her strength of mind and character, qualities that most Victorian women were oblivious to, to fight for her personal freedom and attain what she most desires; equality and independence in society. Jane Eyre tells the story of a woman progressing on the path of acceptance. Throughout her journey, Jane encounters many obstacles to her

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Revision of Master Narratives Within Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

    Revision of Master Narratives Within Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

    To be able to discuss adequately how the master narratives of Bronte and Rhys’ time are revised, one must first understand what those master narratives were and what the social mood of the time was. From there one will be able to discuss how they were revised, and if in fact they were revised at all. Bronte is known as one of the first revolutionary and challenging authoress’ with her text Jane Eyre. The

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    Submitted: March 13, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre Gaskell's Jane Eyre depicts English life in a similar way to ideas associated with English History at the time. Nineteen-century religion in England was typically characterized by the Anglican Church (Church of England) and the ongoing issue of whether to accept or simply ignore other forms of religion. Early on in the novel Gaskell examines how religion is very prevalent on the minds of the characters in the book. Margaret's father informs Margaret

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    Essay Length: 346 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, we are introduced to a young heroine who faces an uphill life battle that she seems ill equipped for. In the course of the novel, Jane endures hardships throughout her life that help to make her the young woman that she becomes at the end of the novel. Through her journey, she falls in love with an older man of considerable wealth and stature. Jane’s love is unrequited at first,

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    Essay Length: 1,270 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Monika
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Random House College Dictionary defines a classic as, “an artistic production considered a standard, a work that is considered definitive in its field.” Charlotte Brontл’s novel, Jane Eyre, is a classic for one main reason; it has stood the test of time. R.W. Emerson stated this truth quite accurately, “Never read a book that is not a year old.” From 1847 at its origin to 2003, where one senior’s grade depends on it, Jane Eyre

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    Essay Length: 1,196 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Jane Eyre’s Childhood as a Precedent for All the Trouble

    Jane Eyre’s Childhood as a Precedent for All the Trouble

    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

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    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Jane Eyre and Feminism

    Jane Eyre and Feminism

    Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre embraces many feminist views in opposition to the Victorian feminine ideal. Charlotte Bronte herself was among the first feminist writers of her time, and wrote this book in order to send the message of feminism to a Victorian-Age Society in which women were looked upon as inferior and repressed by the society in which they lived. This novel embodies the ideology of equality between a man and woman in marriage,

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    Essay Length: 1,335 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Jane Eyre Passage Analysis

    Jane Eyre Passage Analysis

    “�I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free things looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage—with a stern triumph. Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it—the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let

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    Essay Length: 422 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Yan
  • Jane Eyre, Hamlet and Keats

    Jane Eyre, Hamlet and Keats

    To convey a sense of argument, imagery and perspective, authors use various types of language, syntax and vocabulary to achieve this. An extract from Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, a soliloquy from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare and Ode to Autumn, by John Keats all have a number of striking similarities between them, as well as a few differences, which will be analysed to show. Unlike Hamlet and Autumn, the extract from Jane Eyre, doesn’t

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Marriage in Pride and Prejudice and in Jane Eyre

    Marriage in Pride and Prejudice and in Jane Eyre

    Most of the novels we read involve marriages .Discuss the dialectics involved in the marriage of Pride and Prejudice and another novel of your choice. Marriage in the 19th century has always been an important issue and thus, it is manifested in most of the novels of the 19th century. Pride and Prejudice as well as Jane Eyre are two novels in which the dialectics of marriage are strongly present. In the opening of

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    Essay Length: 690 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 11, 2010 By: Anna
  • How Much Sympathy Does the Reader Feel for Jane Eyre at Different Stages in the Story?

    How Much Sympathy Does the Reader Feel for Jane Eyre at Different Stages in the Story?

    There are many stages throughout the book in which the reader can feel sympathy for Jane Eyre; these include when she is locked in the Red Room, when Helen Burns dies at Lowood, and when she and Mr. Rochester are married the first time. The situation when Jane in locked in the Red Room occurs because she has retaliated against John Reed hitting her and the fact that she is being punished for doing so.

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    Essay Length: 1,347 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 26, 2010 By: Tasha

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