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A Critique of Charlotte Bronte’s Writings
In English writing during the 1800’s, women were always portrayed as the weaker sex, having to obey the wishes of men. This began to change in 1847 when Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre. ... Bronte learned at an early age that there was an inequality between men and women by her father’s treatment of her brother. ... Bronte was one of the first women to write about strong women characters, such as Jane Eyre. ...
Bronte was born April 21, 1816, in Thornton, England. Bronte’s father, Patrick Bronte, was an Anglican clergyman of Irish birth. ... Her mother died when Bronte was five years old and an aunt moved it to raise the children. In 1824, Bronte was sent to a boarding school. ... Bronte then attended Roe Head School in 1831. ... Charlotte went on to become a governess for a short time but was hindered by her disabling shyness, her ignorance of normal children and her yearning to be with her sisters.
Since she was nine years old, Bronte loved to write. ... Between June 1826 and December 1827 Bronte, her brother and her sisters wrote plays called “Young Men”, “Our Fellows” and “Islanders”. During the mid-1800, her major works were, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette¸ and The Professor, which was published in 1857, two years after Bronte died. Bronte also wrote a book of poems with her sisters called Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell in 1846, but this book wasn’t the hit that the women had expected.
Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell was a collection written by Emily, Charlotte and Anne Bronte. ... They were edited by Currer Bell, also known as Charlotte Bronte. ... Bronte, however, had begun to make her step into the public as a writer: “the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence”(Nestor 15). ... One found Bronte’s sisters to have compassion and meaning whereas Charlotte Bronte’s poems lacked these characteristics. ... Bronte decided not to give up and continued to write. ... Like Bronte’s previous works the author of this novel was Currer Bell. ... Bronte. ... Her style in writing Jane Eyre enabled Bronte to express ideas of a woman as only a woman could know. ... “As a result of the slackness of narrative, certain stylistic habits of Charlotte Bronte’s -irritating at any time – now stand out in an uncomfortable relief. ... Often they reveal themselves as a half-disguised form of Charlotte thinking about her narrative technique”(Sherry 79). ... “Jane Eyre, and here too Charlotte Bronte shows herself like Dickens, is a roaring melodrama. ... The structure of Jane Eyre is like most of Bronte’s novels, it is considered weak. ...
On Bronte’s character development in Jane Eyre, one critic says, “Charlotte Bronte fails, and fails often, over the most important part of a novelist’s work-over character”(Cecil 23). Some critics consider this to be an autobiography of Bronte’s life because of the way Bronte was able to write about the love of Jane so clearly. ... some even go so far as to suggest that it is the memory of a real love which Charlotte Bronte herself had experienced, that is that the novel is some kind of autobiography and, if we take this view to its logical conclusion, not a novel at all”(Scargill 67).
Approximate Word count = 2557
Approximate Pages = 10.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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