Lecture 5 Dr Milena Škobo 10/09/2018 SISTERS BRONTE Lecture 5 Dr Milena Škobo 10/09/2018

CHARLOTTE (1816 – 1855) EMILY ( 1818 – 1848) ANN ( 1820 – 1849) SISTERS BRONTE CHARLOTTE (1816 – 1855) EMILY ( 1818 – 1848) ANN ( 1820 – 1849)

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Characteristics Romantic type of an artist Autobiographic element – a novel Vilette

CHARACTERISTICS Jane Eyre and Lucy Snow - projections of her own personality Realistic novels Reality is blurred due to poetic imagination

JANE EYRE (1847) the unconventional heroine unwilling to be seen as a victim; an admiring character full of surprises alive, active and real her actions are not always logical and normal

NOVEL’S STRUCTURE Story of Cinderella I part of the novel is the strongest Child- a real human being that feels, reacts to love and hatred

NOVEL’S STRUCTURE Love between Jane and Rochester Gothic elements

CHARACTERS Jane Eyre (independent, decisive and active) Rochester (caught between fantasy and reality) Happy ending is foreshadowed

VILETTE the story of Cinderella love Lucy Snow feels for her professor Emanuel adaptation to new environment Lucy’s life adventure and lonliness felling of uncertainty

Anne Brontë (1820 -1849) Novels: Agnes Grey, 1848 Anne Brontë (1820 -1849) Novels: Agnes Grey, 1848. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1848. (Zakupnica zamka Vildfel)

Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848)

CHARLOTTE AND EMILY BRONTE closer to Romanticism than to the age of bourgeois literature Realistic elements in the novel

NARRATION In medias res Double framing Nelly Lockwood Catherine’s diary and letters

CHARACTERS TWO DIFFERENT LIFE PHILOSOPHIES Catherine and Heathcliff Lintons Natural Free emotions Untaming nature and energy Act according to their emotions and passions Good folks Conventional The code of morality is stable and strong Act as it is expected from a person respecting the moral codes

Different love stories LOVE BETWEEN Catherine and Heathcliff MARRIAGE BETWEEN Catherine and Edgar Linton Immature, passionate, infantile; fatal outcome; two identical characters Love story to follow– young Catherine and Harriton Earnshaw Love is depicted as leaves in the wood Edgar: gentlman, kind, noble, sympathetic and rational

Tragic heroes Catherine’s marriage to Linton Heathcliff’s revenge turns back to him

TRAGIC HEROES CATHERINE HEATHCLIFF Somewhat of a Milton’s satane from The Paradise Lost Shakespeare’s influence a demonic hero a villain whose basic value is love Her illness

”Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living ”Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe—I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”