... and the heroines they created began to throw off the victim's role that male authors had created, from Moll Flanders, Pamela, and Clarissa onwards. Jane Eyre's 'Reader, I married him' close to the end of Charlotte Bronte's novel (1847) that bears the character's name, shows the reversal of roles ... First narrator is the one who rented the Thruscross Grande, Lockwood, only tells the reader what happened in the first four chapter and the last four chapter of the novel. The most important narrator is the one who called Nelly, who knows each character and lived with them throughout ... of...

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... for marriage. This conflict, usually with autobiographical resonance and often framed in metaphors of imprisonment, is embodied in such novels as Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1853), Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), and Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860). As much as novelists ... omniscient and reliable; sometimes merely another character among multiple centers of consciousness; sometimes indeterminate and ironic; sometimes the voice of the community, the standard by which action may be judged and a guide to readers facing a new world which they, like the na...

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