A Comparison Between Charlotte Bront's 'Jane Eyre' and John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice And Men' looking closely at the themes of Friendship, Loyalty and Integrity

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GCSE English Coursework: Wide Reading Assignment

A Comparison Between Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’ and John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice And Men’ looking closely at the themes of Friendship, Loyalty and Integrity

    I have recently read Charlotte Brontës ‘Jane Eyre’ and John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice And Men’ novels. They are both clearly different novels. First are both set in different time spans, the settings are different, Jane Eyre was set in rural Victorian England countryside, in comparison, Of Mice And Men was set in the Agricultural side of the U.S.A. Finally both genders of each novel are the same i.e. Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre to John Steinbeck and George Milton and Lennie Small. I will be looking closely at the three themes and similarities between the two novels; these are Friendship, Loyalty and Integrity. I shall also be looking in detail at the differences between the two novels.      

        Both these novels have many differences, The first main difference is the time and settings between the two novels, first of all Jane Eyre was set in 1847 in the rural Victorian countryside placed in England during the nineteenth century. Then the main character Jane Eyre and then the writer Charlotte Brontë. This novel has been written in a first person narrative point of view, this attempts the readers to focus on the style of writing and emotions that occurred through the novel. This style of writing will enable the readers to get up close to the characters and the details given by them.

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        “ I don’t know, I asked Aunt Reed once, and she said possibly I might have some poor low relations called Eyre, but she knew nothing about them”.

This shows how Charlotte Brontë decided to write the novel in the first person narrative, this will again enable the readers to get up close and personnel, this will also get the readers some of her life as they were with her as it happened. This is one of the advantages of writing in the first person narrative. However a disadvantage of this style of writing is that us the ...

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