A TALE OF TWO HEARTS While an artist uses a variety of colors and brushes to create a portrait, Charlotte Bronte used contrasting characters and their vivid personalities to create a masterpiece of her own. In her novel Jane Eyre, Bronte uses narration and her characters to portray the struggle between a society’s Victorian realism and the people’s repressed urges of Romanticism. In order to discern between the Victorian and Romantic themes, Bronte …showed first 75 words of 1189 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1189 total…and the Romantic age. As the novel developed, it led readers to assume that any union between these themes is impossible. But Bronte’s writing was able to make these two fighting foes combine into the single personalities of Jane and Mr. Rochester. Bronte’s talents lie in her ability to present two greatly contrasting attitudes through her narrations and characters and then successfully manipulate her fictional creations to compliment each other despite their differences.