... are women; 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 and the ... to draw attention to the fact that they were women. Charlotte and Emily Bronte are in may ways both opposites to Jane Austine. They are districtly romantic in temperament, exploring in their novels extremes of passion and violence. Although there are some features of Romanti...

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... the children. However the children were sent against their wills to a boarding school for daughters of poor clergymen at Cowan Bridge. The school immortalized by Charlotte as Lowood Hall in Jane Eyre. The conditions at the school were atrocious, and the two eldest girls caught typhus fever and died. Charlotte and Emily were then brought home and joined with their younger brother ... ill and its too late. Heathcliff comes to her bedside and takes her in his arms where she dies contently, for it's where she always belonged. In a novel analysis, it quotes Heathcliff saying to Catherine at ...

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