GCSE: Bronte Sisters
2 GCSE Bronte Sisters essays
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Jane Eyre
She also rejects John River's purity as much as Rochester's liberty. Instead, she works out a morality expressed in love, independence, and forgiveness. In terms of social class Jane herself speaks out against class prejudice at certain moments in the book, for e.g. "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!-I have as much soul as you-and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you" .Jane Eyre has also forgiven many people during the story .
- Essay length: 895 words
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Wuthering Heights
Nelly tells Lockwood that the daughter-in-law is Catherine Earnshaw who she describes. "She [Catherine] had ways with her such as I never saw a child take up before...Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going - singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same. A wild wicked slip she was..." (77). Nelly illustrates Catherine as a rebellious and high strung child. According to Nelly, Catherine annoyed everyone who would not act like her. Nelly's comments about Catherine reveal that she does not approve of Catherine's unladylike manner.
- Essay length: 701 words
