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

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

3. CHARLOTTE BRONTE

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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. NOVEL’S STRUCTURE
Love between Jane and Rochester
Gothic elements

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

10. 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

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

12. Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848)

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

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

15. 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

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. ”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!”