How Bronte Uses Setting to Reflect the Experiences of Her Characters

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Jane's mood. Jane is being kept away from Mrs. Reed - her aunt and her

Remoteness and Loneliness in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Emily Bronte loved nature and spent most of her childhood on the remote Yorkshire Moors near her home in Haworth. Emily found that the Moors were a place of peace and sanctuary where she could retreat to relax and follow one of her most favourite past times, which was writing. However she knew that in a matter of seconds the Moors could change into a wild and savage wilderness. Emily chose this ever-changing setting for her only novel "Wuthering Heights".

    Charlotte Bronte makes extensive use of nature imagery in her novel, Jane Eyre, commenting on both the human relationship with the outdoors and with human nature. The Oxford Reference Dictionary defines "nature" as "1. the phenomena of the physical world as a whole . . . 2. a thing's essential qualities; a person's or animal's innate character . . . 4. vital force, functions, or needs." Bronte speaks to each of these definitions throughout Jane Eyre.

The red room is the scene of the next occurrence of suffering but in a

The curious life Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights and a collection of poems, has been highly analyzed alongside those of her sisters and fellow writers, Charlotte and Anne, for decades. Born in 1818, Emily was the fifth of six children born to Patrick and Maria Bronte. Her father was curate of Haworth parsonage in Yorkshire, England, a home for local clergymen, where Emily spent nearly all of her life. The lonely parsonage offered few companions for Bronte besides her family, but included a large library which consumed her childhood. Bronte never married, and much of her later life was filled with caring for her alcoholic brother, Branwell. This solitary life and experience with Branwell seems to have heavily influenced Wuthering Heights, the only novel written by Bronte, which centers on a similar setting of isolated, lonely households and contains a heavily alcoholic character.

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is presented in the Victorian Period of England. It is a novel which tells the story of a child's maturation into adulthood. Jane's developing personality has been shaped by her rough childhood. She has been influenced by many people and experiences. As a woman of her time, Jane has had to deal with the strain of physical appearance. This has a great effect on her mental thinking and decision making. Jane Eyre's cognitive and physical attributes have been affected by her environment throughout her life.

In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte uses the setting of the English Moors, a setting she is familiar with, to place two manors, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The first symbolizes man's dark side while the latter symbolizes an artificial utopia. This 19th century setting allows the reader to see the destructive nature of love when one loves the wrong person.

The Brontë family was full of amazing writers, originating from the father Patrick Brontë. Patrick strived for his children to be the best writers they could be and hoped they would make a career of writing poems, plays, novels and many others types of literature. Patrick and his wife Maria had six children, five girls and one boy. These five girls took a greater liking to writing literature over their brother, Branwell Brontë. Since the Brontë sisters were from this well-known line of Brontë writers, their beautifully written literature did not disappoint their readers, even if it was written during the many tragedies that occurred in their lives (Blom, 1977).

The connotations that Brontë employs in this chapter is a negative connotation in this chapter. The overall feeling of the language in this chapter is negative. When Brontë was describing the food at Lowood, Brontë uses the terms “rancid” and “mess”, which give the food a negative feeling about it. Another example is “silence” is often repeated a lot in this chapter, seeming like it is the

I should say I loved you, but I declare I do not love you: I dislike

Creating a haven from the cruel outside world, families ideally provide protection and support for each of their members. In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, however, bitterness grows between the Earnshaws and the Lintons. Within these two families, siblings rival for power and parents fail to fulfill their roles as caregivers. The intertwining relationships of the Earnshaws and the Lintons are marked by physical abuse, degradation, and emotional negligence. These reduce each of the family members’ life to a lonely and meaningless journey though the cold and misty moors.

Repression and regression are the manifestations of the struggles that the superego and the id impose on themselves or are imposed by. Those who represent the superego have a focus on the future, and believe that a life dense with the repression of any desire will serve them well for some greater purpose that others may not understand. In contrast, those who represent the id are obsessed with the present and consumed by desire and materialism, resulting in their inevitable self-destruction. In Charlotte Brontë’s gothic novel, Jane Eyre, Brontë creates a multitude of characters that represent the extremes of the id and the superego to contrast with Jane’s more balanced, ego-dominated self in order to reveal the dangers of falling out of

The word choice here reflects Jane's situation - she is like the ground, 'petrified' under the influence of her aunt, whose behaviour is mirrored in the term "hard frost" because of the icy discipline she bestows. Mrs Reed's attitude towards Jane highlights one of the main themes of the novel, social class. Jane's aunt sees Jane as inferior as she had humble beginnings: she is "less than a servant". Jane is glad to be leaving her cruel aunt and of having the chance of going to school.

How Charlotte Bronte Uses Language Detail and Setting In The First Two Chapters Of Jane Eyre