... the Victorian novel 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 decision-making capacities that the new ... ...

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... seen as an alien figure is because of the fact that the family is presented in the novel as a closed system. When Earnshaw brings Heathcliff into the system, like Jane Eyre, he is an intruding stranger. We notice that names are constantly repeated in the novel, as if there were no changes through the generations, or they were acting in the ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School