An Introduction to Charlotte Brönte and “Jane Eyre” part 2

1. Who is said to have influenced the sister’s lives and WHY?
The father. Since they were young, he shaped their minds to be writers.

2. What tragedy struck the Brönte family?
Their mother died. After this, the three sisters died before their father.

3. What’s the Brönte father’s background?
The father studied at Cambrige university. He was part of a wealthy family and the house they live in now is the biggest he had ever lived in.

4. How is it said that Emily Brönte coped with homesickness?
She wrote poetry and leave all her emotions on the paper.

5. What is Haworth described like in the times the Bröntes lived there?
This was the times of the industrial revolution. Gothic style buildings were the man type of building you can find.

6. What is a recurrent theme in Charlotte’s writing (based on her experience as a child)?
The lost of her mother and the rupture of the family due to that.

7. How did the Brönte father try to salvage the situation with his family after his wife’s death?
He tried to marry three times. It was hard to him because of the amount of daughters he had.

An Introduction to Charlotte Brönte and “Jane Eyre” part 1

1st task: Make a paragraph staring at the images that surrounded the Bronte's family.

Mixing cathedrals and graves is a mistake. Big desolated fields indicate a similar feeling to a peaceful death, the opposite of what a grave offers. Graves are surrounded by sorrow, sadness and dark, gloomy emotions. You can't be happy and free on a graveyard, unless, of course, you are under the ground; finally free after a hole life of horrors and pain.