The Bronte Sister

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The Bronte Sister
The novel of the 19th century was female.
a number of brilliant woman writers
gave voice to the feelings and aspirations of the
educated women of their age
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the Bronte Sisters
Charlotte Bronte
Anne Bronte
Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre
Agnes Grey
Wuthering Heights
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The reasons of being authoresses
They inherited their parents strong emotions.
The moorland, which was not yet corrupted by
the evils of society.
They were greatly influenced by the Romantic
poets.
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The differences between them and other Victorian
writers

• Their works are marked by strong romantic
  elements.
• The role of nature is especially important in the
  works of the Bronte sisters.
• Their works are also marked by a new conception
  of women as heroines of vital strength and
  passionate feelings.

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Jane Eyre
the form of fictional autobiography
Jane Eyre
unfeeling aunt
be hurt in fire
marry
a charitable school
Mr. Rochester
governess in a rich landowners family
died by burning
Mrs. Rochester
mad woman
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Wuthering Heights
---- the sole novel by Emily Bronte
owner
Wuthering Heights
Mr. Earnshaw
inherit
adopted
Heathcliff
treated as a pet
Hindley
loved each other
Catherine
died
marry
daughter
died
servant
marry
Edgar
left
returned
drunk gambler
Edgars sister
buried
their property
died
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 ----- 1881)
He was an essayist, historian, and philosopher.
One of the most influential man of letters in
the mid Victorian period.
Born --- in a peasant family in a little village
Education --- Edinburgh University at 15,
without a degree
Job --- taught mathematics in a school
Marriage --- in 1826, married Jane Welsh
whose literary talent equalled that of Carlyle
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Thomas Hardy (18401928)

• The last important novelist of the Victorian age.

The Wessex novels
vividly and truthfully described the tragic lives
of the tenants
Born ----- in Dorsetshire
the setting of his novels
Wessex
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The Wessex novels
he used his birthplace as the setting of his
novels and gave the name Wessex, which suggest
the mysterious past of England during the
Anglo-Saxson period. And the Wessex Kingdom was a
prospered under king Alfred famous for the
prehistorical Stonehenge. The place is rich in
its legend, folk ,customs and superstitions.
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His works
Under the Greenwood (1872)
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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The Return of the Native (1878)
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
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Tess of the DUrbervilles (1891)
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Jude the Obscure ( 1896)
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Tess of the DUrbervilles
a poor foolish peasants daughter
arrest try hang
work as a maid for neighboring family
Tess Durbeyfield
seduce
go to a dairy farm
child died
marry
DUrberville
Alec
meet and live
Angel Clare
murder
find
old-fashioned prejudice
leave
come back
repent
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Jude the Obscure
to be undergraduate
to be Christminster
cant escape from love
Jude
encouraged by Phillotson
die in misery
love
lure, marry
left
marry
remarry
Arabella
Sue
worry about marriage
live together
without marriage
misfortune marriage
have sons and daughters
no jobs
poor
Sue was very sad.
not permitted by church
children hang
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Theme of the novel
the deadly war between flesh and spirit and
the contrast between the ideal life a man
wished to lead
the poor young man
to be great
no way to go
desire for freedom
the average woman
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Oscar Wilde (1854 --- 1900 )
dramatist, poet, novelist and essayist
Born --- in Dublin
Education --- at Trinity College
at Oxford later
notorious
Idea ---
Satirized the Victorian morality
His aestheticism led his to decadence, which is
preoccupied with hedonism.
art for arts sake
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Contribution ---
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His works
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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A House of Pomegranates (1891)
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Lady Windermeres Fan (1892)
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A Woman of No Importance
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
the typical work of decadence and Gothic ---
style
paint
Henry Wotton
Dorian Gray
thrust
remain young and untouched
Picture of Dorian Gray
commit crimes, lead a corrupt life
an appearance of experience and age
remain young
more sinister mark on the face
ugly and disgusting
handsome
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 --- 1950 )
Born --- in Dublin
Education --- received little education
Experience --- clerk, music critic
Belief ---- socialist
founded the Fabian Society
attempt to attain socialism through peaceful and
evolutionary means
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Contribution --- dramas
concern about
The social problems of his time
Shaw lived a long life and wrote altogether
fiftyone plays. By means of witty remarks,
surprise, and paradoxes, he tries to shock the
conventional audience.
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His works
first play
Widowers Houses (1892)
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Mrs. Warrens Profession (1894)
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Major Barbara (1905)
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Pygmalion (1913)
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Heartbreak House (1917)
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St Joan (1923)
The Apple Cart (1929)
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relentless
notorious
slum owner
doctor
aristocratic
son in --law
Sartoris
Trench
engage
the same way
refuse to marry
marry
to prove property
Blanche
Widowers Houses (1892)