Eyre Essays

Imagine a girl growing up around the turn of the nineteenth century. An orphan, she has no family or friends, no wealth or position. Misunderstood and mistreated by the relatives she does have, she is sent away to a school where the cycle of cruelty continues. All alone in the …

The Victorian Era is dated from 1837 to 1901, the years that Queen Victoria was the British monarch. The era was preceded by the Regency era and came before the Edwardian period. This time was one of incredible change in Great Britain. It was a long period of prosperity for …

Self discovery in ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘A Doll’s House’ can be interpreted in different ways. Self-discovery can mean a person finding out about their true self and the person within them after looking back on previous memories and as a result changing their actions or results. ‘Jane Eyre’ presents Jane’s …

It was in the early 1800s, after Lord Byron’s work ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ was published, that the Byronic hero was introduced to Britain, sweeping up the Romantic and Gothic Movements and irrevocably changing the face of the English novel. Characterised by Caroline Lamb, an ex-lover of Byron, as ‘mad, bad …

Exploring a theme or issue raises interesting comparisons. This can clearly be seen when examining the theme of Identity in the three texts I have studied, which are: “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte, “Philadelphia Here I Come” by Brian Friel and “Cinema Paradiso” directed by Guisseppe Tornatore. In each of …

Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre, shows an enormous amount of relevance to the Victorian era while establishing the Victorian respect for high standards of decorum and moral conduct. The main character Jane Eyre proves by the results of her moral choices that in Victorian society the idea that women who …

The Victorian era, with its fascinating social conventions and classes, cannot compare to present day America, with music and pop culture dominating the entertainment scene and government officials getting into publicized scandals. Victorian literature was generally compliant with social customs, with beautiful, reserved female protagonists who abide by patriarchy and …

In the novel by Charlotte Bronte, “Jane Eyre”, there is a constant battle of love versus autonomy in Jane, the main character. At points Jane feels as if she would give anything to be loved. Yet over the course of the book Jane needs to learn how to gain affection …

The following is a critical essay of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” using Romanticism as a basis. I decided that I would pick those aspects of romanticism that I found most prevalent and interesting in the texts. After reading these stories, I realized that there were many …

Gothic is a literary genre that is connected to the dark and horrific. It became popular in the late Victorian Era, following the success of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, in 1764. Since that time, gothic literature has become a widespread influence. Some elements that are typically gothic include …