Samarkand state institute of foreign languages English faculty II department of English Theory and Literature “Literature of countries with language learning”
Chapter II. “Jane Eyre” – One of the famous novel written by Charlotte Bronte
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Charlotte Bronte's life informs Jane Eyre ……………………..
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The role of love in “Jane Eyre” ………………………………..
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INTRODUCTION It has been more than one hundred and fifty years since the first novel of then 31 years old Charlotte Brontë was first published. The novel’s title was Jane Eyre and with this book came the beginning of Charlotte’s professional career as a novelist whose name is still not to be forgotten even though she used a pen name for her first publications. Even now her novels keep attracting readers from all over the world, new film adaptations of her work are being created and her stories are also penetrating other genres of art like musicals, operas and more.
However, it is not only Charlotte Brontë’s literary work what has been provoking curiosity and attracted interest. Her life and the lives of her family, especially her sisters also known as influential female writers, are for many people almost equally exciting. This fact may be supported by the numbers of biographies and documents which are continually being produced and which keep drawing interest of large audiences. This January – in 2017, Britain’s TV Channel BBC One aired a brand new two-hour long TV film dedicated to the lives of Brontë siblings which proves that people are still hungry for more material on this famous literary family. It also suggests that it is much more difficult than with other writers to separate Brontës’ works from their life experience although the lives of all siblings were only short ones. Despite the fact all three Brontë sisters died before they reached the age of 40, much has happened in their lifetimes and their life stories were (and still are) romanticized by many, contributing to creating a Brontë myth as suggested by author Lucasta Miller in her book bearing the title of the same name.[1,56] This “myth-making” was started together with the publication of Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Afterwards, all the Brontë sisters and Charlotte especially were never fully perceived by public only as influential authors of timeless novels picking brave themes for their times such as the role of women in society or the clash of morality and desires but also as tragic heroines of their own, their lives being pictured in a novel-like manner explaining and justifying their work. However, although it is undeniable that their home near the moors and all the tragedies that happened to them must have been an inspiration for their work, the sole influence for them was not only misery and depression, on the contrary, the main themes we may observe in their finest works are rather fierce, bold and passionate which was a very unconventional and among many not exactly welcomed occurrence in Victorian England they lived in, suggesting the sisters were not merely victims of their tragic lives but also strong and intelligent women. However, women were not supposed to be passionate and brave back then, they were not expected to have desires for equality and adventure, and therefore the novels of the Brontë sisters were accepted with a lot of confusion and mistrust from both men and women – for men this was a threat to their status in society and for women a threat they would be perceived as immoral and undeserving. Elizabeth Gaskell, who wished to maintain her position as both a respectable female writer and as an obedient wife and mother knowing her position in Victorian society, tried her best to redirect the attention from the novels of Anne, Emily and Charlotte to their lives which were also a great basis for writing a novel-like biography of the last surviving sister. Today, we must admit she had a lot of success with this mission and she did create a surviving Brontë myth.
The aim of our work is to analyze the role of love in Charlotte Bronte’s coompositions. We will study his literary techniques, such as alliteration, anaphora, «free» verse etc. In our work we will try to show peculiarities of his works.
Tasks are:
To study theoretical material on the theme of investigation;
To investigate the Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre in terms of love
To conduct a detailed analysis of the novel Jane Eyre
