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Jane Eyre 1847
setting
Gateshead —> home of her aunt, at the very beginning of the novel.
Lowood —> school/orphanage, where she is educated
Thornfield —> the house of her lover, place of mystery and temptation
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the style --> the novel was written using the first-person narrator, it revolves around a female character, as we read Jane's point of view with an emotional use of language
the plot
Jane is an orphan. she is educated and she looks for a job, and she she becomes the governess of the daughter of a rich man called Mr. Rochester.
the 2 fall in love, he proposes and the wedding is set, but the night before the wedding she sees a figure standing by her bed and her wedding veil torn into pieces.
during the wedding, a stranger interrupts it declaring that Rochester is already married to Bertha Mason, a mental woman living in the attic.
she leaves and goes to her cousin's. Here she meets St John Rivers, a religious man who proposes to her but she refuses.
one night she hears Rochersters voice calling her. so she comes back finding the house destroyed by a fire lit up by Bertha.
Rochester is still alive but he’s blind while Bertha is dead in the fire. Rochester and Jane are finally wed and he recovers his sight when she gives birth to their child.
themes --> it's a novel of formation, moral journey (from poverty through hardship to happiness), role of the supernatural in our lives, role of passion in our lives Vs reason and role of women and their independence.
character --> Jane is independent, intense and passionate. Rochester develops from a villain to a passionate man truly in love with her
the life
To express their intellectual creativity and emotions, they began to write chronicles of imaginary countries.
they spent much of their lives confined to a remote area of Yorkshire. they will not receive formal education, they were self-taught.
Charlotte (1816-55), Emily (1818-48) and Anne (1820-49) were daughters of an angelic priest.
The other two sisters soon died of consumption: Emily in 1848 and Anne in 1849. Charlotte married in 1854 and died the following year.
Wuthering Heights
themes --> romantic love, the contrast between life and death, nature of human passions, relationship between man and nature (romanticism)
characters --> H. is passionate, doomed to a solitary life away from is love, the villan. C. represents the romantic figure, intense and wild but with social ambition
narrative structure --> - the story isn’t told in chronological order, nowadays, Thrushcross grange needs a tenant who will be Mr. Lockwood. Mr. Lockwood during a visit at WH is forced to stay the night because of a snowstorm and has a strange dream about a girl called Chaterine, asking to be let in after 20 years of wandering. Mr. Lockwood asks a maid, Nelly, about it and she tells him the whole story--> flash back
the plot
Mr. Earnshaw comes home with a foundling called Heathcliff and adopts him. he had already 2 children: Hindley who is in conflict with the boy, and Catherine who grows attached to him. when Mr. Earnshaw dies H. is turned by Hindley to a servant.
H. proposes to C. because he is deeply in love, but she refuses because she thinks he is going to abandon her. H. runs away and C ends up marring Edgar Linton.
H. comes back rich and C. falls in a deep depression, so, after giving birth to her daughter (Cathy) she dies.
H. wins the possession of Wuthering Heights gambling with Hidley who had become a drunkard, then marries Edgar’s sister Isabella and treats her like a servant. years later H. kidnaps Cathy and forces him to marry Linton, his weak and fragile son.
after a few years H. and Linton are dead and Cathy is going to marry Hareton, who is Hindley’s son.
the Works
Only Jane Eyre was immediately successful, which was followed by two more novels by Charlotte: Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853).
they decided to use pseudonyms, under which each of the sisters published their own novels in 1847: Charlotte (Currer) Jane Eyre, Emily (Ellis) Wuthering Heights and Anne (Acton) Agnes Grey.