Similar Elements, Different Characters: A Comparison Between Frankenstein and Jane Eyre Authors usually write about ideas or events that happen during their lives, resulting in books with similar ideas and elements. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre were both written during the Romantic Era, and both authors incorporate the ideas of Romanticism in their stories by using gothic elements, which are common literary devices used in the early 19th century. In addition, the
novel is said to not only be an obstacle, present for the purpose of being destroyed “before Jane can emerge as an integrated individual” (Lodge 2009, p. 74), but a ‘encrypting device’ that acted as a tool where female writers’ could express “unspeakable rage against patriarchal oppression” (p. 75) within their writing. Bertha’s character becomes reimagined through later “feminist re-writings of Jane Eyre” that aimed at expressing “the sense that Bertha deserves rescue: she is not Jane’s rival, but
The readers cry when the protagonist cries. Their favorite character's enemy is their enemy. One should not underestimate the power of intimacy with the reader. Charlotte Brontë sees the value in connecting with her audience. In her novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë purposefully makes an intimate connection with her readers by using diction and details that makes the novel seem as if it is a personal conversation with the reader. The first connection that Brontë makes with her reader comes
The prevalence and description of death and deathbed scenes and its importance as a plot device is omnipresent to nineteenth-century literature. Death was everywhere and mortality rates were high, especially in children, not all parents expected their children to survive their early years (Da Sousa Correa, p.10). Additionally, maternal death rates were high with women dying, often leaving the baby, and other children in the family with a widowed husband. Thus, authors often used the death of a child