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Post by Dominique on May 25, 2007 7:41:05 GMT -5
They are good points and all the reasons why Wuthering Heights is my favourite!
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Post by sagedautumn on May 25, 2007 8:01:46 GMT -5
mine too!!!
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Post by lostgirl on May 27, 2007 1:12:44 GMT -5
i think that they got along pretty well. I mean it wasn't like they were really well known as Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte until their deaths. They were known by other names, Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Plus other than Charlotte, the other Bronte sisters were virtual recluses. Going with what lostgirl said, I think that we tend to like Jane Eyre or Tenant at Wildfell Hall a lot more because it is so much more simplistic than WH. The characters are almost stagnant compared to that of Emily Bronte's. Here the characters aren't always moral. They face internal dilemmas as well as external ones. Each character has many faces. To me this feels more realistic. Most people have different shades to them. They act differently when in contact with other sorts of people. To be human is to be in a constant struggle both internally and externally; I feel that WH is able to portray that very well, no matter how exaggerated the problems are. Well think you're underestimating Jane Eyre and The Tennant of Wildfell Hall to a cartain extent. Both can be read as romances but can also be read as indictments of the postion of women in the 19th century. Both are credited with being among the first "feminist" novels. Jane Eyre also serves as an indictment of imperialism (Bertha is brough into England from a colony- with her she brings conflict). It raises questions of posession. Can a husband posess a wife, can a man posess a woman? If England possesses colonies in Barbados can an Englishman posesss a colonized subject? Mr Rochester wants to posess both Jane and Bertha. It's only through losing both (along with his physical health) that he can be with Jane as an equal. With divorce being so difficult is there any excuse for what Rochester does to Bertha? Tenent explore the institution of marriage. At what point (if any) can lifetime vows be broken? We live in a society where divorce is fairly common but Anne Bronte didn't. She arrives at the conclusion that if a child is threated, only then is the mother's first responsibility to the child and not the husband. But even then Helen takes her "in sickness and in health" to heart as long as her son isn't threatened. Is that feminist or antifeminist? Also, the framelike structure of Tennant (Helen's story as written in her diary which she gives to Gilbert) actually recalls the multiple frames of Wuthering Heights. I think WH differs from the other novels in that Jane Eyre and The Tennant of Wildfell Hall can be read as gothic romances if you choose not to look deeper. Wuthering Heights can't. Because you can't like any of the characters you need to look elsewhere for satisfaction: the atmosphere, the prose, the secondary characters, the structure. That automatically pulls you in further. A casual reading of it is difficult to impossible
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Post by Dominique on May 27, 2007 2:23:07 GMT -5
I appreciated those aspects of both Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall but Wuthering Heights is still my favourite.
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Post by sagedautumn on May 27, 2007 7:33:56 GMT -5
Yea thanks.
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