Bleak House Research Paper

Each novelist has a different style in writing but both novels Jane Eyre and Bleak House are considered autobiography for the use of the first person narration. Both novels tackle similar themes such as Bildungsroman (means that the novel traces the life of a character from childhood to adulthood), love, appearance, and orphanage. This research paper focuses mostly on the choice of adjectives used by Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens to describe their heroine. Jane Eyre and Esther Summerson are two women narrating their own story starting from childhood till adulthood. Determined to make her heroine "as poor and plain as myself," Charlotte Brontë made a daring choice for her 1847 novel. Jane Eyre is a reflection of Charlotte Bronte’s life.

She worked as a teacher for two years there, but she was hoping for a better life. She accepted to be a governess at a place called Thornfield. Her life was becoming better especially after preparing for her marriage to her master Mr. Rochester, but on the day of her wedding she discovered that he is married. Jane left Thornfield broken hearted, penniless, and weak. She found a house where two sisters and their brother lived and asked for their help. Their names are Mary, Diana, and St. John Rivers, and Jane quickly became friends with them. St. John is a clergyman, and he helped Jane to find a job teaching at a charity school in Morton. He surprises her one day by declaring that her uncle, John Eyre, has died and left her a large fortune: 20,000 pounds. When Jane asks how he received this news, he shocks her further by declaring that her uncle was also his uncle: Jane and the Riverses are cousins. Jane immediately decides to share her inheritance equally with her three newfound relatives. However, she realizes that she cannot abandon forever the man she truly loves when one night she hears Rochester’s voice calling

It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels. Esther narrates her life beginning from that she was living with her godmother Lady Dedlock. Esther was a child for unknown parents. Esther Summerson describes her childhood and says she is leaving for the home, called Bleak House, of a new guardian, Mr. Jarndyce, along with Ada Clare and Richard Carstone. Richard struggles to find a suitable career, eventually deciding to pursue medicine. But he is more interested in the Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, which he believes will make him rich. Neither Esther nor the narrator ever fully explains the lawsuit, because nobody remembers what originally prompted the parties to begin the suit. Esther knew form Mr. Jarndyce that the woman who raised her is her aunt. Guppy visits Lady Dedlock in London and tells her he thinks there is a connection between her and Esther. He says that Esther’s former guardian was someone named Miss Barbary and that Esther’s real name was Esther Hawdon. He says that Nemo was actually named Hawdon, and that he left some letters, which Guppy will get. When Guppy leaves, Lady Dedlock cries: Esther is her daughter, who her sister claimed had died at birth. Esther tells Mr. Jarndyce about Lady Dedlock. He reveals that Boythorn was once in love with Miss Barbary, who left him when she decided to raise Esther in secret. Mr. Jarndyce gives Esther a