Essays about: "Charlotte Brontë"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 essays containing the words Charlotte Brontë.

1. 1. Cultural Clash and Gender Roles : Exploring the Quest for Equality in Jane Eyre and Things Fall Apart

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Anne M Johansson; [2024]
   Keywords : Gender; cultural clash; equality; religion; colonialism; Genus; kulturkrock; jämställdhet; religion; kolonialism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to analyze the intersectionality between themes of cultural clash and gender roles within the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, accentuating their common quest for equality. This essay offers a historical and cultural analysis, divulging the gender norms prevalent in Victorian England and pre-colonial Nigeria, serving as a backstage to the characters’ adaptations and struggles. READ MORE

3. 2. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Nimrod Numan; [2023]
   Keywords : Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

   Abstract : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. READ MORE

4. 3. "I have alluded to him, Reader". Categorising literary references in Jane Eyre (1847)

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

   Author : Olivia Nordgren; [2022-02-17]
   Keywords : Charlotte Brontë; Jane Eyre; allusions; references; structuralism; dimensions of the text; textual and extratextual; allusioner; referenser; strukturalism; textdimensioner; textuellt och extratextuellt;

   Abstract : This essay examines the use of references to real books within the narrative of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Jane Eyre is one of the most densely allusive novels of its time, which is well-documented, but there is a limited focus on the use of allusions and references woven into its narrative, as opposed to the references woven into the textual side of the prose itself. READ MORE

5. 4. Examining Childhood Resilience in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre : A Psychoanalytic Critical Reading

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Emelie Seger; [2022]
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6. 5. The Dream Interpreter : A Historical and Postcolonial Analysis of the Development of Antoinette Cosway in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Nathalie Pontén; [2022]
   Keywords : Wide Sargasso Sea; Jean Rhys; Jane Eyre; Colonialism; Patriarchy; Orientalism; Edward Said;

   Abstract : This essay will discuss Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea from a postcolonial and historical perspective, to show how Rhys’s recreation of Bertha Rochester’s past (Charlotte Brontë’s madwoman in Jane Eyre) can make her end appear triumphant. The analysis will be based on a combination of aspects from the novel’s contemporary English and Caribbean societies and Edward Said’s thoughts about Orientalism, mainly the binary opposition between Europe and the Orient and the creation of Orientalist knowledge. READ MORE