Bronte sisters George Eliot

1. Bronte sisters & George Eliot Bronte sisters refer to Charlotte Bronte, the author of Jane Eyre; Emily Bronte, the author of Wuthering Heights; and their younger sister, Anne Bronte who has written Agnes Grey. They came from a poor clergyman�s family and received little school education, but they became famous through hard work. A short life as they had, they produced some greatest works in English literary history.

2. Jane Eyre: The Plot Gateshead Hall Lowood Institution Thornfield Wilderness Thornfield

3. Analysis of Jane Eyre Jane Eyre is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society. For example, the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions of Lowood School and the false convention concerning love and marriage. The novel is an intense moral fable. The hero and the heroine have to go through a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve happiness. In Chinese literature, Journey to the West is a shining example of moral fable. The novel brings forth a completely new woman image who comes from the lower social status and struggles for an independent love.

4. Analysis (continued) The madwoman in the attic (Gubar and Gilbert) John Rhys�s Wide Sargasso Sea Quotations 'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.' (Chapter 25)

5. Wuthering Heights Lockwood as a lodger A haunted room Nelly�s narration Wuthering Heights & Thrushgross Grange Heathcliff as an intruder Demonic love

6. Heathcliff as a vindictive person The victim-turned despot The replicated love story Dramatic change

7. Analysis 01 Emily has a passionate love for the wilderness of the moor all the year round and enjoys staying outside as far as she could. She is a child of nature. That accounts for the mysterious setting in Wuthering Heights. As a love story, the passion between Heathcliff and Catherine proves to be the most intense, the most beautiful and at the same time the most horrible passion ever to be found in human beings.

8. 02 In a sense, the novel can be read with reference to English revenge tradition. But it is quite different from Hamlet. While the Denmark prince is thoughtful of other people in his country, Heathcliff is egocentric. He is vindictive in nature. He is seeking for revenge at any cost. Modern Hong Kong revenge movies and TV plays seem to be modeled on this archetype. The story is noted for its narrative style. The story is told by Nelly, Catherine�s old nurse, to Mr. Lockwood, a temporary tenant at Grange. The author�s voice has been hidden.

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10. Writing at the latter half of the 19th century and closely following the critical realism tradition, Eliot is working at something new. His novel is a new type of realism, leading in the direction of both the naturalistic and psychological novel. As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience. Eliot shows a particular concern for the destiny of women, especially those intelligent and ambitious women. Her idea about women is best illustrated by the words of Daniel Deronda, one of the heroines in her novel. Deronda says to her son, �You are not a woman. You may try---but you can never imagine what it is to have a man�s force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.�

11. Feminism Christian ethics (child murder in Adam Bede) Frank Leavis�s The Great Tradition