文档介绍：Key Points in Chapter 13
Charlotte Bronte
Introduction
Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte
Introduction
Wuthering Heights
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Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
Introduction
She came from a poor clergyman’s family of five daughters and a son.
These sensitive and intelligent people lived in a house on the northern moors and suffered from the general polluted environment of moor gas so that they were all delicate in health and died ultimately before their time.
Her works include Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley and The Professor.
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
The novel tells a fascinating story of suffering, love, and growth.
Major characters: Jane Eyre, Rochester, St. John Rivers
Jane Eyre is in fact the first image of an ugly duckling e heroine in English literary history.
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
Introduction
When Wuthering Heights came out in print, Emily Bronte became the object of mockery and misunderstanding.
Even her sister plained about the younger sister’s gallery of lost and depraved souls and her inability to put her gifts to better use.
Her book “violated” Victorian values and tastes and spoke ahead of her time.
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
The novel tells a story of tragic love. Wuthering Heights is the name of a grange in a mountainous area.
Major characters: Mr. Earnshaw, Heathcliff, Catherine, Edgar Linton
The novel tried to show that love a s a natural force can never do harm except when unduly interfered with.
The depth of the psychic world of the major characters leads to the point of interest about the novel: its exploration of the characters’ plexities.
Emily sees into the nebulous future. The Zolan naturalist idea of the amoral universe would not appear yet for another few decades.
Key Points in Chapter 14
e Eliot
Introduction
The Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch
Anthony Trollope
Samuel Butler
e Eliot (1819-1880)
Introduction I
Of the host of Victorian novelists, three stand out as the most eminent, representing the three phases of the period: Dicke