Jane Eyre critical essay

“Charlotte Bronte was born April 21, 1816, the third child of Reverend Patrick Bronte, minister of the Church of England, and mother Maria Branwell Bronte. Maria Bronte died when Charlotte was only five leaving six children, to be taken care of” (author, 86). “ Recognized by literary historians for her contribution to the development of the novel. Her fame and influence rests on four novels and her contributions to a single volume of poetry” (Magill, Masterpiece of Women’s Literature). “Desperately wanting his children to receive an adequate education Mr. Bronte enrolls his four daughters in the Clergy Daughters’ School of Cowan. The terrible treatment at the school along w

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“There is no character in any novel of the eighteen-forties whom the reader knows as intimately as Jane Eyre”(Tucker, 22), this is partially because Jane Eyre was such an effortless character to believe in. As said by G.K Chesterton “ Jane Eyre remains the best of Bronte’s works because it is a human document written in blood. Bronte did not value coldness, detachment, excessive analysis and critical distance in any novel. The artist must have a degree of inspiration not to be rationally explained. Such a theory of art is similar to that of the Romantic poets, an attitude not altogether popular in the mid-nineteenth century” (Magill, Masterpieces of World Literature, 420). Maybe this sense of total self-indulgence to her work explains why the reader can sense Bronte’s voice, although the novel is not completely autobiographical it does contain autobiographical elements. From the opening of her Jane Eyre we see specks of Charlotte Bronte, the fact that the “heroine has lost her mother to a terrible disease is very much a part of Charlotte Bronte’s life. The traumatic experiences of maternal deprivation, and Maria’s death create the events of Jane’s early life”(A-Cald, 301). “Bronte’s experience at the Clergy Daughter’s School is similar to Jane’s years at Lowood” (Magill, 298). The miseries of Cowan Bridge are indicated and indicated in the Lowood chapters of Jane Eyre, Mr. Brocklehurst being drawn from the Rev. William Carus Wilson, the founder and superintendent of the school, where cold, bad food, and long sessions of prayer and Bible reading were designed to produce ‘hardy, patient, self-denying’ women” (Ward, 190). Its essential truths to life sometimes makes one catch one’s breath. For it is not true to manners, which are constantly false, or to facts, which are most always false; it is true to the only existing thing which is true, emotion…”(Harris, 55). “The brutal religious hypocrisy of Brocklehurst-Wilson was the more distinguished and deadly in Charlotte’s eyes since the deaths of her two sisters were directly traceable to conditions at the school” (Ward, 191). Maybe this is why when we reach “Helen Burns death scene in Chapter IX of Jane Eyre we feel such an embodiment of personal memory” (Ward, 191).

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