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Essay / Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre - 2208
Charlotte Bronte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire on April 21, 1816. Her mother was Maria and her father was the Reverend Patrick Bronte. Charlotte was the third child in the family. By this time she had two older sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, and then a year later her only brother, Patrick Branwell Bronte, was born. She then had two younger sisters, Emily, born in 1818, and the youngest, Anne, born in 1820. Just a year after moving to Personage in Haworth in 1820, Charlotte's mother died in 1821 and their sister mother, Elizabeth Branwell, came to live with them. The eldest child at that time was only seven years old and the six young children took comfort in each other. In July 1824 the two eldest daughters, Maria and Elizabeth, were sent to school at Cowen Bridge and Charlotte and Emily followed months later. The place was cold and damp and had been set up by a clergyman to provide a cheap education for the daughters of a poor clergyman. Maria and her sister Elizabeth fell ill at school due to the poor conditions and Maria was sent home in February 1825 and died three months later of tuberculosis at the age of eleven. Elizabeth was also sent home three weeks later and she too died of tuberculosis. less than a month later. Mr. Brontë was quick to bring his other two daughters home from school, but Charlotte still remembered the harness shown to her sisters at school and blamed the school for their deaths. When Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre a few years later, she based Lowood on Cowen Bridge School. She also modeled the ailing Helen, who died of illness at Lowood in Jane Eyre on her sister Maria. The novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë consists of a continuous diary...... middle of paper ...... equal to Rochester, financially, physically and emotionally. She was once dependent on him and now they are both equals because he is as dependent on her as she is on him. Jane and Rochester get married in the three days Rochester promised her. In the last chapter, Charlotte Brontë simply describes their life together and she describes it as a life of pure contentment and happiness. They were a couple who were adaptable in every way. Bronte tells us how his cousins Diana and Mary both marry good men and lead happy lives, Jane places Adele in a good school where she learns well and grows up to be a good young woman and Rochester regains his sight in one of his eyes. , giving her the opportunity to see her newborn. These five physical journeys mirror Jane's four emotional journeys. Jane grows from an immune child to a mature woman at Lowood Boarding School.