Literature Essays

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. …

The content in “Charlotte O’Neil’s song” is of a maid who is extremely angry and is not willing to be a slave for hey “mistress” any more. She then makes up her mind to immigrate to New Zealand. In stanza one of “Charlotte O’Neil’s Song” she makes a list of …

When comparing the poems, ‘Nothings changed’ and ‘Charlotte O’Neil’s song’ we see that they are set in different time periods and in different cultures. Charlotte O’Neil’s song is set in the 19th century whereas; the poem Nothings Changed is set in the 20th century. However, despite this they are both …

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 …

The film starts with low camera shot of a can or a circular piece of rubbish in the grass reflecting the bright sky and a reflecting and dark image of an elderly man walking past with a stick. The low camera shot makes us feel as if we were actually …

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 …

Jane’s temperament is strong and unique and she share’s very few qualities with any of the other women in the novel. This is because, as a central character, Jane has to stand out and be individual. The other women in the novel are used to accentuate the qualities Jane has …

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 …

The opening chapter of Jane Eyre very effectivly draws you into the plot of the story and tempts you to read on. It does this by making you empathise with the main character, the little girl Jane Eyre, with whom you feel very sorry for by the end of this …

In the preface to Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte writes, “narrow human doctrines… should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ.” And this is not the only place that religious references, more specifically Christian references, are mentioned in the preface. In fact there are Christian references in many places …