Both The Kite Runner and Jane Eyre have the impressive employment of vivid imagery in them. This imagery helps accentuate the scenes that the author is attempting to describe. By utilizing shocking diction Bronte and Hosseini are able to put the readers and the moment and, therefore, make the emotions they are trying to create that much stronger. Both novels also speak on the negative aspects of society during the time they were written. Jane Eyre calls for the equal treatment of women
otherwise known as Charlotte Bronte, supports her inventive writing style throughout her novel Jane Eyre, where her ability to portray such loveless adolescence for main character, Jane, stunned me, as the poor orphan culminated into a victorious, heroic adult. While motherhood during the Victorian Era was the gateway to female fulfillment in a male-dominant society, I questioned Bronte’s choice in constraining Jane to such a toxic, unbearable childhood without a mother, but sought even more,
psychological or moral development of its protagonist as they mature. Jane Eyre is an example of a character who grows from a poor mistreated orphan to a powerful woman who controls her own life. In the end of the novel Jane matures when she realizes her true desire to be with Rochester. Jane finally realizes what she wants and goes after it by returning to Rochester’s estate, Thornfield. In Jane Eyre, a bildungsroman, the pivotal moment in the psychological development of Jane is her return to Rochester
A Critique of a Critique: The Not Plain Jane Sandra M. Gilbert’s article “A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane’s Progress,” provides a deeper view of female oppression through the novel Jane Eyre, with supported examples on the repression of the main character, Jane. Gilbert exposes Jane as being degraded from Mr. Rochester throughout her experience at Thornfield. In reality, Jane is not an oppressed female who has to be at a man’s service; Jane is strong self-determining woman who manages to
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