... cultivated thinking. The gateway to entering the English Canon is barbed by many obstacles; these include economic, gender, social and political factors. This has led to an increasing amount of criticism argued upon the speculation of biased opinions presented by professors and authoritative bodies that manage the English Canon. It also consists of predominantly white male figures, the canon did not ... literature for many centuries to come, those that are deemed central to the expansion of our understanding of matters immersed in complexity and are fit for academic studies. Despite the...

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... . Post-colonial critics argue that Bertha wreaks havoc and divulges in arson to represent the hatred of the British Empire by the colonies. Gilbert and Gubar are the pinnacle feminist criticism with their work 'The Madwoman in the Attic' in which they argue that the central confrontation lies with Jane and Bertha not Jane and Rochester. Gilbert and Gubar argue ... ...

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