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Jane Eyre vs. Great Expectations
Title: Jane Eyre vs. Great Expectations
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1874 | Pages: 8.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Jane Eyre vs. Great Expectations
Both Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, and Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, have many Victorian similarities. Both novels are influenced by the same three elements. The first is the gothic novel, which instilled mystery, suspense, and horror into the work. The second is the romantic poets, which gave the literature liberty, individualism, and nature. The third is the Byronic hero, which consists of the outcast or rebel who is proud and melancholy and seeks …showed first 75 words of 1874 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1874 total…his desires instead of following down the most logical path for his training and status.
Throughout both Jane Eyre and Great Expectations the reader can identify many universal themes of the Victorian period. It is shown through the similarities and differences of setting, social and gender mobility, the power of the unconscious, and the main character’s struggles with their internal passions, that Brontë and Dickens’ shared common bases for writing their works of literature.
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