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I’m just Heathcliff. Her struggling between realistic and romantic is the existence of human dilemma. Romanticism makes the society progressive( man has a dream); Realism make us feel satisfied.
2.The heroine : Jane Eyre
①Partly autobiography, beyond the traditional pattern: angel---- devil beauty---beast. ②Unlike the traditional heroin who is beautiful, sentimental, angel like, Jane is poor, plainlooking, stubborn, but pure, courageous, upright, rebellious and resisted oppression and other social evils in the capitalist society.
Jane Eyre

Protagonists: Jane Eyre; Mr Rochester The bourgeois money-hunt attitude toward love and marriage; the bourgeois system of education, esp the misery in the charity schools; the problem of women’s position in society



Thrush Cross Grange civilized, gentle, graceful, yet limited by conventions Edgar Linton Her love for Linton is like leaves of tree the color will change
②A representative work of feminist
writings reflects the experience, defending the interest of the weaker sex. Jane’s declaration to Mr. Rochester of her equality with him is really a declaration of the women of middle class and al classes.
3.the contradiction and conflict

Wuthering Heights Wild, natural, free, human nature Heathcliff Catherine’s love for Heathcliff is like rock Never change, eternal, powerful

“ Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am a automation?---a machine without feeling? And can bear to have morsel of bread snatched from lips, and my drop living water dashed from my cup? Do you think I M Poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!

-----I have as much soul as you and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you… It is my spirit that address your spirit, just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal,--- as we are.”
4.Choice of Narrators
①Mr. Lockwood: outsider, tenant 房客of Thrush cross Grange, an honest recorder. ②Ellen: no prejudice against everyone. She is single, usu. an unmarried person has an uncorruptive review of love. Married ones will be influenced by the society, has no purity of love. So being single is natural, marriage is social.
Charlotte Bronte

born on April 21, 1816, in Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire. In 1824, Charlotte began attending the Cowan Bridge school for daughters of clergymen. In 1831, Charlotte began attending school at Roe Head, taught by Miss Wooler. In 1842, Charlotte and her sister Emily traveled to the Pensionnant Heger in Brussels. Charlotte was married in June, 1854, at the age of thirty-eight. In 1855, Charlotte died
2.theme of the story
A morbid story of love, but a powerful attack on the capitalist marriage system. Innocent love is poisoned by class prejudice and true love can’t be attained in a class society.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights---- a gothic story, Satan like insane love story. Theme of nature , romance, revenge, social position and selfcontradiction. Title: “wuthering ” Yorkshire dialect for “weathering”, which is indicative of “ the tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather” .
1.Themes
①Its social criticism is found in its vivid
description of the life of a poor orphan is left to fight for her own rights of equality and independence, seeking for own fulfillment and realization; the brutality and hypocrisy of the English educational system are also exposed in the example of Lowood school where children live in harsh conditions and are trained to be humble slaves.
Bronte sisters
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Name the three Bronte sisters and their representative works. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre; Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights; Anne Bronte: Agnes Grey
5.the characters of Heathcliff
①self-esteem and self abasement: they are the two blades of a sword of human beings. People tend to protect their self-abasement by extreme self-esteem when they feel inferior to others . Heathcliff , who lives in the crack, he faces Hindely’s swear and torment with cool, proud feeling to keep his self-esteem. On the other hand, his lack of origin lead to his indifference, loneliness and selfabasemve--Linton.

1.story
Wuthering Heights: the Earnshaws Mr. & Mrs. Earnshaw, Hindley, Catherine Heathcliff Thrushcross Grange: the Lintons Mr. & Mrs. Linton, Edgar Isabella
Emily began writing poems at an early age and published 21 of them. Emily published Wuthering Heights under her pseudonym of Ellis Bell in 1847, almost exactly a year before her death on December 19, 1848. She became ill after attending Branwell’s funeral, and died of tuberculosis.
③A Cinderella theme—Poor girl with
heart of gold oppressed by wicked stepmother and stepsisters gets her chance to meet a Prince and prove her superiority, but not without serious obstacles along the way.
③Furthermore she has very strong sense of self-respect, independence and feminism. So she is a new woman figure and a symbol of women’s liberation.
Emily Bronte