Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte (Penguin Classics)

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The weather reflects her feelings throughout the novel, and at the very beginning the situation was at its worse. As a child, she was sent to boarding school, where two of her sisters died; she was subsequently educated at home with her younger siblings, Emily, Branwell and Anne. She was four when her older sisters were sent to the Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge, where Maria and Elizabeth both caught tuberculosis and died. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.

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Bluebeard was well-known in Victorian fables as a rich and swarthy man who locked discarded wives in an attic (though he killed them first). She is a rebel - setting out to have her own career in a male-dominated world, refusing to let a man rule her life (that applies to both Rochester and St. She even says, "Women are supposed to feel very calm, generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint.

He took a new young wife and when she discovered her predecessors, he was about to kill her, but she was rescued by her brothers, rather as Mason wants to rescue Bertha.

Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.In a funny sort of way, he might have felt he was doing the right thing by her, or at least, not the wrong thing. Feminism, Religion, and Class are constant themes through the novel where the eponymous Jane tells her own story. You don't get all the way to your SECOND wedding forgetting to mention that your FIRST wife is hidden in the attic.