Charlotte Bronte Research Paper

Charlotte Bronte was born on April 21, 1816, in Thornton. Yorkshire, England. She was an English novelist and poet. She was the oldest of 3 sisters. The third daughter of rev. Patrick Bronte and his wife Maria. Her brother Patrick Branwell born in 1817 and her sisters Emily and Anne in 1818 and 1820. In 1820 too, the Bronte family moved to Haworth. Mrs Bronte died the following year. Charlotte Bronte died while pregnant on March 31, 1855 in Haworth, United Kingdom. She worked as a teacher and governess before making a poem with her two sisters, Emily and Anne, who were also poets as well. Charlotte was raised in an Angelic home by her aunt and father after her mom and two oldest siblings died. She was strongly for women's equality most people

She use to cry because her house was so lonely. She was afraid of being alone at home. She cried when she sees something that reminds her of her past. At the very beginning it explains the setting which was an ‘Old Home” specifically her house growing up. Also she used nature to describe her emotions. She says she used to “grieve” and her house seemed so “forlorn” as in sad and lonely she is miserable. She used to cry. . “..its silent rooms were filled with haunting fears” the rooms were scary to her at night and “haunting” this is imagery image of a room.. After a while charlotte didn’t let anything get to her anymore. Life and marriage makes her happy now to forget about the past. Once so bright. “Every ray of light” is a hyperbole. It exaggerates that she has searched for the perfect man but did not find anyone. Connotation is used in “Sea of Life” as in plenty of fish in the sea. Found no place to settle peacefully. A “bark” (symbolism/Allegory) is a ship its voyage is a metaphor for life. The speaker's life journey is now returning homeward bound. “Farewell” is a repetition emphasizes the importance that she is saying goodbye to her past. “Farewell dark and rolling deep! Farewell foreign shore!” goodbye to travels in strange places. Home described as a glorious kingdom and cloudless paradise. Although the speaker had safely left home, and settled elsewhere are voice could summon her to travel

It went from charlotte regretting not leaving her old home to her turning out good and happy “Long ago I wished to leave the house where i was born” this shifted from sad to happy. “Now, how utterly is flow every ray of light” she is explaining that her life has changed after she got married. Happy with life and marriage. Once so bright. “Farewell dark and rolling deep! Farewell foreign shore!” She is saying goodbye to her past and never looking back.

Open taking place in her old house where she grew up Charlotte Bronte was in a time when women were considered more than social adornments and bearers of offspring. She conducted society through her writings. Her novels speak for woman. Thus establishing Charlotte Bronte as one of the first modern woman of her time. She was a feminist even back in the Victorian era. Charlotte Bronte withdrew from a society that wouldn't accept her and express her stifled ideals through her