... which each suitor holds for her. Finally, Ferndean is the place of warmth without burning, the coolness of the evening without the chill. This is the scene of Jane's reconciliation and reunion with Mr. Rochester. Jane Eyre comes in the tradition of the Gothic novel, which was inaugurated by Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story, along with many other literary pioneers. The ... other horrors. The Byronic hero with his sensational past, the mad wife locked up in an attic and supernatural occurrences are some of the features of the Gothic novel. In Jane Eyre Edward Rochest...

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A Couple of Lovers: The Dramatic Comparison Charlotte Bronte wrote a stunning book called Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is about a young governess, formerly an orphan, who finds love in two different places, and slowly discovers who she is, and what she wants to do with her life. She ... into the world on her own after being at a boarding school, and ends up a governess for a wealthy man, then escapes to take sanctuary with a missionary and his sisters. Jane's two lovers, Mr. Edward Rochester and St. John Rivers, are two very different people. Yet she falls in love with them anyway. Not only are they...

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... to create characters based on this interesting type of character. One of these authors is Charlotte Bronte. Bronte uses her character Edward Rochester to portray the prototype of this character. In Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre, Rochester is used as a Byronic hero. First, Rochester displays the Byronic traits of being intelligent and having a mysterious appearance. Throughout the novel he uses clever tactics to figure out ... what Jane is thinking of him. It is obvious that Rochester engages in a higher level of thinking based on his action. One example ... about and was at many ...

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