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Examples Of Anger In Jane Eyre

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Anger in literature can be found from the very first word of the Iliad through all literary genres. Anger can be found in Shakespeare’s works, for example: In Macbeth the most frequent word is ‘blood,’ ‘Blood’ is a word with a multitude of meanings. At its most dramatic it refers to. Blood also suggests such things as courage, youth, and anger. Anger can be found in Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre which challenges the Victorian societal constraints designed to keep women enclosed. In the end, Brontë demonstrates that women 's anger is very political and to be an angry woman in nineteenth-century England is next-door to insanity. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud, Anger is the subject of this novel. Official beginning of anger in literature was with the emergence of Angry Yong Men movement in 1950s. Angry Young Men, a term applied by journalists in the 1950s to the authors and protagonists of some contemporary novels and plays that seemed to sound a note of protest or resentment against the values of the British middle class. The most striking example of the angry young man was Jimmy Porter, the ranting protagonist of John Osborne 's play Look Back in Anger (1956). Other works then taken to express 'angry ' attitudes included Kingsley Amis 's campus novel Lucky Jim (1954), and John Braine 's novel of social ambition, Room at the Top (1957). Charles dickens has tackled anger in his works, for example: David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, Bleak House, and A Tale of Two
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