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    Wuthering Heights (1847), Emily Brontë is remembered for her ability to capture human nature and for complex narrative structure. On July 30, 1818, Emily Brontë was born in Yorkshire to Reverend Patrick Brontë and his wife, Maria Branwell (Laban). Patrick Brontë was a, “schoolteacher and tutor before he obtained his bachelor of arts degree from Cambridge in 1806” (Laban). Two years following her birth, the Bronte family moved to Haworth, where Patrick would become an established curator (Laban). The following year, Emily’s mother died of cancer on September 15th (Laban). In 1824, the Brontë sisters were sent to the Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge (Laban).…

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    Emily Bronte was a genius of her time when it came to writing. She came to be known by her controversial novel Wuthering Heights and the quiet nature she had. Anyone just looking at her or spending time with her wouldn’t even realize she was such a talented writer. Wuthering Heights was a jewel and parallel to her life in many ways. By looking at Wuthering Heights, one can see that Emily Bronte included themes of revenge, love, loneliness, and death because she was trying to get away from a dull…

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    The Fantasy stories of Emily Brontë Who would have ever thought that from making up stories and creating fantasy worlds could become something big in the present even if sometimes we don’t get to experience the gift we left behind. As I read about the life of Emily Brontë, that she lived a quiet life along with her siblings it reminded me of how I live my life. As little children imagination is a big motive, for creating made up stories and fantasizing about the present and future life once we…

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    The Bronte sisters are, without a doubt, two of the greatest romantic writers of all times. All throughout out their lives, they wrote many different novels that contributed to literature; displaying the lifestyle of the times, and the attitudes of the people. Emily and Charlotte Bronte shared the same style of gothic romantic writing. The Brontes took pieces of their own lives and dreamland weaved them into their novels as a way to deal with their troublesome lives. The parts of their lives the…

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    Charlotte Bronte was a very talented and expressive poem writer. She was way ahead of her time with her beliefs of feminism and the way women should be treated. Although the thought of women having rights was looked down upon during her time, she still expressed her beliefs. She believed that men and women are equal and a woman could do everything that a man could do. Bronte’s poetry is very direct and she talks and deals with death a lot in her life, and she copes with that through her poetry…

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    The Fantasy stories of Emily Brontë Who would have ever thought that from making up stories and creating fantasy worlds could become something big in the present even if sometimes we don’t get to experience the gift we left behind. As I read about the life of Emily Brontë, that she lived a quiet life along with her siblings it reminded me of how I live my life. As little children imagination is a big motive, for creating made up stories and fantasizing about the present and future life once we…

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    Much like the young Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte spent majority of her young life dreaming of fictional worlds, far off lands, and alternate realities. Bronte’s childhood consisted of strict education following her mother, Maria Branwell's death in 1821. Gerin explains, “Leaving no memory with her surviving children, not even with the clever five-year-old Charlotte, her part in the moral makeup of her daughters was yet primordial and lasting. Her love letters, written to Patrick during their…

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    Emily Bronte was an amazing poet. She was even more famous for her novel Wuthering Heights, but she wrote other great poems too. She had a certain writing style that reflected on her past. She wrote many poems such as “Fall, Leaves, Fall,” “Love and Friendship,” and “Remembrance,” They all are great poems, but what caused her to write these? Emily Bronte has an interesting past and wrote great poems. Bronte was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was the fifth daughter…

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    Who would have thought a woman with so many tragedies and disadvantages in her life could use it to her advantage and write such a beautiful novel, Wuthering Heights, that teaches so many lessons by following Heathcliff, one of the main characters? Emily Bronte was an extremely talented woman without even a formal college degree who didn’t let even the biggest challenges in life bring her down. She would be the one to set an example for women authors to come (“Brontes”). Emily Bronte was born…

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    In her nineteenth century novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte makes a point of utilizing several different spaces for her setting. Although each is different from the others, they are all similarly homes or places in which someone can be housed. For instance, the story begins in Bretton, at the home of Mrs. Bretton. Lucy lives here for some time, until she finally moves on to work for an elderly woman, Miss Marchmont. Finally, Lucy finds herself as a teacher at a boarding school in Villette.…

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