Childhood Perspectives in Jane Eyre and Hideous Kinky
Charlotte Bronte was born in 1816 in Hamworth in Yorkshire. Her father
was the vicar of the village she lived in. Her mother died when she
was very young. With her two sisters, Maria and Elizabeth she was sent
to a very strict boarding school where she was very unhappy. Both her
sisters died of tuberculosis, which made her very upset. Jane Eyre was
based on Charlotte Bronte's own experience and is a fictional
autobiography.
Esther Freud was born in London in 1963 almost 150 years after
Charlotte Bronte. She spent most of her childhood in Sussex, she was
taken to Morocco when she was very young but says she can't remember.
Hideous Kinky was published in 1992, although it's not an
autobiography its base on her childhood experiences in Morocco.
Jane Eyre is set in the middle of the Victorian period where children
had no rights and social class was everything. As the book goes on we
see Jane grow from a rebellious and boisterous young girl to a
sensible and determined woman. We see Jane move from place to place
meeting and losing people. Although we do see Jane growing into a
young woman we are only concentrating on the first 10 chapters in
which we follow her childhood.
Hideous Kinky is set in the 1960's, in Morocco .The book gives a view
of life on the road to Morocco is put across through the eyes of a
sincere but often distracted hippie's five year-old daughter. As the
small family seeks food, shelter and friendship wherever they can and
their adventures unfurl, there grows between them a strange yet
unshakeable bond.
The contrast between the historical and social period in which the two
books are set is stark, particularly with regard to th...
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...y. In the evening, Jane
speaks to Helen, she asks her why she puts up with Miss Scatchared's
bullying and she explains the principles of endurance, duty and
self-sacrifice to Jane, as based on the New Testament Gospels.
A lot of the first few chapters when Jane starts Lowood consist of the
converse between Helen and Jane. Though this dialogue covers some
complex theological ground, it is nonetheless quite naturalistic and
provides us with a deep insight into Helen's character. Helen offers
one solution to Jane's problem - the need to quell her passionate
nature and Jane does learn from her, as we begin to see in the
following chapters. But Helen's faith is also essentially inward -
looking, as indicated by her tendency to slip into reverie, and
potentially death - willing; she looks forward to death as an
elevation, 'I live in calm, looking to the end'.
A traveling pilgrim deeply connects and explores the cultures they visit in the same way a spiritual tourist explores life's meaning and significance. In this way, spiritual pilgrims are made unique by their desire to find life purpose. As Falson's life begins to fall apart, he finds new life purpose through the study of St. Francis's Christ-like lifestyle of poverty and generosity. A reader can especially make this connection as Falson washes the genitals of a poor man and the impact it makes on him. Pilgrims studying history search for the purposes and deeper implications of each past event. They seek not just to know the facts but also their deeper
The author’s intention in the beginning of Mahtab’s story is to give the reader a descriptive introduction regarding the feelings and cricumstances of Mahtab’s journey. She uses descriptive language to inform the reader of Mahtab’s feelings of uncertainty as the “fog of darkness” (p.2) closes in on the family as they travel by truck through the Afghani mountains in a search for a better life.
The knowledge and universal understanding derivative from a journey can leave the traveller positively enlightened. In Coelho’s story, Santiago is faced with recurring dreams which lead him to ‘’traverse the unknown’’ in search of a treasure buried in Egypt, the metaphor for universal connection, and in doing so, comes to the unrelenting realisation of spiritual transcendence. After arriving at the assumed geographical location of the treasure ‘’several figures approached him’’. They demand the boy keep searching for this treasure as they are poor refugees and in need of money, but as Santiago does, he finds nothing. Then, after relentless digging through the night ‘’as the sun rose, the men began to beat the boy’’ , finally relenting with the truth, Santiago reveals his dreams to the travellers. In doing so, Santiago finds out that these men had also been faced with recurring dreams measured around the place where the boy had undergone his own, both relative to hidden treasure. However the leader was ‘’not so stupid as to cross an entire desert just because of a recurrent dream’’. It is with this fact, tha...
Analyse the methods Charlotte Brontë uses to make the reader empathise with Jane Eyre in the opening chapters. Reflect on how the novel portrays Victorian ideology and relate your analysis to the novel’s literary content.
was not a better place but it helped Jane stand on her own feet. Through
Nowadays the wide array of transportation means and infrastructures at our disposal has made it relatively easy for us to travel from one country to another; even when those countries are thousands of miles away from each other. However, during the 13th and 14th centuries, travelling was not that easy. Yet, two men, the Italian tradesman Marco Polo and the Moroccan Jurist Ibn Battuta became famous for having managed to perform extremely long distance journeys away from their home country. At the end of their long travels, both men shared their experiences with the world via the books, The Travels of Marco Polo and The Travels of Ibn Battuta. An analysis of those two texts reveals two things. On one hand, Marco Polo remained a cultural outsider to the people he met during his travels, thus enhancing his power of observation and stimulating his curiosity. On the other hand, Ibn Battuta travelled as an insider, and consequently he judged the people he met only in light of his Muslim background.
Jane Eyre has been acclaimed as one of the best gothic novels in the Victorian Era. With Bronte’s ability to make the pages come alive with mystery, tension, excitement, and a variety of other emotions. Readers are left with rich insight into the life of a strong female lead, Jane, who is obedient, impatient, and passionate as a child, but because of the emotional and physical abuse she endures, becomes brave, patient, and forgiving as an adult. She is a complex character overall but it is only because of the emotional and physical abuse she went through as a child that allowed her to become a dynamic character.
Jane was kept under the roof of Mrs Reed but was not looked after or
Every human deserves to be loved. The lack of love can lead to a life full of loneliness and depression. In the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Jane’s actions are driven by her need to experience love and liberty. At the beginning of the book, Jane is a ten year old girl who is being raised by her aunt in the same house as her cousins. This family that she lives with constantly bullies and neglects her, they do not let her make her own decisions in any aspect of her life. In the ten years of Jane’s life, she has never experienced someone who is her age and who cares for her, a friend. Love and Liberty drive Jane to fill the holes in her life.
According to Alexandria’s daily newspaper, The Town Talk, approximately 34,910 cases of suspected child abuse were reported in Louisiana alone last year (Crooks). Charlotte Bronte tells of one victim of child abuse in her novel Jane Eyre. In Jane Eyre, Bronte chronicles the life of Jane, a notoriously plain female in want of love. After being abused, Jane portrays many characteristics which other victims of abuse often portray. Throughout the novel, Jane is reclusive, pessimistic, and self-deprecating. Although Jane does display such traits through most of her life, she is finally able to overcome her past. By facing her abusive aunt, Jane rises above her abuse to become truly happy.
of what goes on in her mind and it is here that we see Bronte's most
Jane does not experience a typical family life throughout the novel. Her various living arrangements led her through different households, yet none were a representation of the norm of family life in the nineteenth century. Through research of families in the nineteenth century, it is clear that Jane’s life does not follow with the stereotypical family made up of a patriarchal father and nurturing mother, both whose primary focus was in raising their children. Jane’s life was void of this true family experience so common during the nineteenth century. Yet, Jane is surrounded by men, who in giving an accurate portrayal of fathers and masculinity in the nineteenth century, fulfill on one hand the father role that had never been present in her life, and on the other hand the husband portrait that Jane seeks out throughout the novel.
Charlotte Brontë challenges the view that men are emotionally, socially and intellectually superior to women.
How does Bront portray Jane as an unconventional female character in the novel Jane Eyre? Jane Eyre was published in 1847, during the reign of Queen Victoria. The novel was written by Charlotte Bront, but published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Pseudonyms were used frequently by women at this point in time, as they were believed to be inferior to men. The The work of female authors was not as well respected as those of male writers.
Although he had endured trials and tribulations to attend the bazaar, he soon finds that, exotic name withstanding, he is still in Dublin, is still impoverished, and his dreams of Araby were merely that, dreams. Our narrator remains a prisoner of his environment, his economic situation, and painful reality. North Richmond Street, the dead-end street described in the first sentence of “Araby” is more than a street. It is a symbol for the way that our protagonist views his life.