From Wuthering Heights to

Thornfield Halla comparison between Catherine Linton and Jane Eyre

IntroductionIntroduction

• The authoresses

• My journey

• The 19th Century

• The Victorian Age

• Comparison

• Social reception

• Conclusion

The authoressesThe authoresses

Early years

• Charlotte born in 1816

• Emily born in 1818

• The family

The family treeThe family tree

The authoressesThe authoresses

Early years

• Education at home

• Education at schools

• Education by herselves

Emily BrontëEmily Brontë

• Psychology

• Works• Wuthering Heights• Poems

• Death

Charlotte BrontëCharlotte Brontë

• Psychology

• Works• Jane Eyre• Others• Poems

• Death

My My journeyjourney

• Brontë Parsonage Museum

• Conclusions

The 19th CenturyThe 19th Century

Periods

• 1830 – 1850 Early Victorian

• 1850 – 1873 Mid Victorian

• 1873 – 1901 Late Victorian

The 19th CenturyThe 19th Century

Industrial revolution

• Society

• Economy

The 19th CenturyThe 19th Century populationpopulation

The Victorian AgeThe Victorian Age

• The public changes

• Influences

• The Roman period

• Romanticism

• Gothic novels

• New ideas in science, religion and politics.

ComparisonComparison

Catherine and Jane, they are not the same• Love and passion

– Catherine Earnshaw• Edgar Linton• Heathcliff

– Jane Eyre• Mr. Rochester• Saint John Rivers

ComparisonComparison

Catherine and Jane, they are not the same

• Weaknesses

• The society influence

ComparisonComparison

Catherine and Jane’s education

• Childhood

• Behaviour

• Adulthood

ComparisonComparison

Authoresses influence

• The authoresses education in:– Wuthering Heights– Jane Eyre

ComparisonComparison

The characters’ ending

• The destiny defeats Catherine.

• Jane survives thanks to her constant struggle

• How end their love

ComparisonComparison

Their love relations conclusion

• Catherine and Heathcliff

• Jane and Mr. Rochester

• Passionate and sensitive love

The novels’ contemporany The novels’ contemporany receptionreception

• Why they use pen-names

• Admitting the real writers

The novels’ contemporany The novels’ contemporany receptionreception

• Criticism

• “Read Jane Eyre but burn Wuthering Heights”

• Positive opinions

ConclusionsConclusions

• The hypotesis

• Personal opinion