Books Essays

Looking at the opening of these books, we can straight away see similarities between Jane and Piggy. The most obvious is that right from the start they are outsiders. They are in different surroundings, but both characters are of a lower class than the people around them. Jane would have …

The novel “Jane Eyre” is a fictional biography by Charlotte Bronte. Its main character, the orphaned Jane Eyre begins the story as a little girl growing up unloved & abused in her aunt’s house. She is then packed off to a boarding school, where she is initially forced to endure …

In this essay I will be comparing the following two novels. These novels are ‘A kestrel for a knave’ by Barry Hines and ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte. I will compare the different aspects between these two novels. These aspects are about the home life, school life (relationship with other …

Jane Eyre is a young girl of ten. She has been left with the Reeds who are relatives of her family. Head of the family is Master John Reed who is a fourteen year old boy and he continually bullies Jane. He is the heir to the family’s wealth. He …

At the beginning of Jane Eyre, Jane is at Gateshead. Gateshead creates a lonely, desolate contrast from the busy Victorian cities like London, and is also situated in the middle of nowhere. This means that there is no way of escape from Gateshead and because of this, Jane is forced …

Jane is a ten-year-old orphan whose parents died when she was only one year old. She is physically inferior to most people and has a plain countenance; these characteristics influence her personality and her behaviour towards people very strongly. Jane is not a pretty girl, and believes that this is …

Both ‘The Go Between’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ deal with growing up. Throughout the two books, the main characters experience new feelings and challenges which though they are dealt with differently, we can draw some comparison. Leo Colston looks back over his life before describing his momentous visit to Brandham Hall. …

Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” is not a novel which is characterized by any one genre. It is a hybrid of an autobiography embedded in a nineteenth century Victorian romantic melodrama and enriched by a Gothic essence. ‘Jane Eyre” tells the story of a young woman’s internal development as she travels …

Written in the nineteenth century and set in rural England, “Jane Eyre” was written by Charlotte Bronte who was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816. An adventurous romantic novel it was written in the 1847. Although at the time it was considered to be an inappropriate book for Ladies or …

During the early 18th century there were many changes in society which meant people were drifting away from the strict norm of neoclassicism and conforming to the Romantic and the Gothic movements. These movements were reflected in the publications of novels such as Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen which …