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In Jane Eyre the heroine shows a courage and determination which contrast with Victorian ideas of female delicacy; such qualities were considered manly (masculine). Although her novels were not meant to be actual denouncement of social evil. The content inevitably highlighted injustices and social problems. All her heroines are women who have decided to

She met Alec, son of Mrs. d’Urbervilles, who offered her work looking after chickens. Tess began to enjoy her new job, but from the beginning the attitude of Alec was insolent to her, up to the point that a night he raped her.
A few weeks after that episode, Tess decided to return home and to tell all the story to the mother, who reproached her, bec

- She gives voice to the small country gentry who was just below nobility: they didn’t go to work because they have an income from their lands, but they haven’t got any title. Her novels explore the world of the country gentry at the end of 18th century. People coming from other social classes appear in the novel, but they are not analysed deeply, they

There a similar theme in the 2 plots: the struggle for and the maintenance of power. Macbeth is a tragedy showing the decline and fall of the central character from a position of strength to catastrophe. The hero is a usurper who is terrified at being confronted with the reality of his murderous acts. His weakness drives him to a series of gratuitous cr

On the other side there is Chistopher’s mother. At the beginning, we know that she’s dead but with the evolution of the event we discover that she is still alive but she is gone to London to live with her lover: Mr Shears. In this circumstance she dimostrated her irresponsability prefering her own happiness in spite Ch.’s one. Her pression about being

Instead of practicing law, Stevenson wrote travel sketches and short stories for magazines.
In 1879 Stevenson moved to California with Fanny Osbourne, girl met in France. They married in 1880 and after a brief stay at Calistoga they returned to Scotland; then, they moved often in search of better climates.
Stevenson gained first fame with the ro

The story took place in a small area of London, on a single day. There isn’t a chronological time, are intermingle past, present and future. The time is both objective and subjective. Objective time is given by clock, noise of cars, the flowers, the street… and it’s expresses by third person. Subjective time given by activity of mind, by stream of thoug

In 1827 he published his first volume of writing and continued to write poems, tales and essays.
After eight years, Poe married his cousin Virginia, a girl of thirteen, in order to secure a home for his aunt, the mother of his wife. Unfortunately, Virginia died when she was only twenty-five years old.
In 1837, Edgard Allan Poe spent eighteen mon