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Brontë sisters - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Mr Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, calls on his landlord, Mr Heathcliff, at Wuthering Heights
        
        Mr Lockwood is forced to stay the night in Mr Heathcliff's house because of a snowstorm
        
        he finds a diary in his room
        
        During the night he has a strange dream about Catherine, who is tapping on the window, asking to be let in after twenty years of wandering on the moors
        
        The next day Mr Lockwood returns to Thrushcross Grange and the house keeper tells him the whole story
        
        Mr Earnshaw, father of Hindley and Catherine one day came back with the foundling Heathcliff
        
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  - - - severe and gloomy, it is appropriate for a life of primitive passion
      - principle of storm and energy
      - with the marriage the two houses get stability
    - - Linton's home that reflects their view of life(stability,politeness,respectability)
      - principle of calm and assurance
  - - - Mr Lockwood(outsider), he simply writes down what Nelly tells him, or narrate what he sees
      - Nelly Dean is involved in the story and totally reliable
      - The story doesn't folllow a chronological order and develop a narrative within the narrative
  - - - He dominates a world of revenge, without laws
  - - - relation between the wild landscape and the violent passions of the characters
- - - - she is sent to a very strict school
        
        firstly she becomes a teacher, then she becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall
        
        she falls in love with its owner
        
        scary events happen during her stay
        
        After spending some time at her aunt’s deathbed, Mr Rochester proposes to her
        
        Richard Mason interrupts the wedding declaring that his sister was already married with him
        
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  - - - Thornfield
      - Moor House
      - Lowood Institution
      - Ferndean
      - Gateshead
  - - - she spoke franknessly about herself and often against dominant male figures
        
        Jane is: imaginative, passionate, rebellious, indipendent and always looking for affection
  - - - Gothic elements are used as means to explore strange states of mind
  - - - Bertha is described as a monster, she represents what Jane was scared of(psycological instability, insecurity inside the home and need for freedom from domestic routine)
        
        parallelism Bertha-Jane: imprisonment in a room, romantic relationship with Rochester, they are marginalised by society
- - - - when their mother died their aunt looked after them
        
        1824, they were sent to school at Cowan Bridge, where conditions were terrible
        
        1825, they returned home and self-educated themselves
        
        they began to write fantasy stories and chronicles about imaginary countries to express intellectual creativity
        
        after finishing their education at Roe Head school they started to work as governesses
        
        1842, their aunt died and Emily and Charlotte went to Brussels to study
        
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