![]() ![]() ![]() What are some contrasts between the characters of Malone and Moore? (19) Between Helstone and Moore? (contrasted with frivolous curates, seen as brave, solitary curates don't wish to help him, 14 he resents gossip about his possible marriage, 23 is devoted to his business causes) How is Robert Moore described? (27) What is significant about his background and character? How does the novel's portrayal affect the reader's sympathy for his position? (25) (anti-romantic manifesto, intends to discuss issues of work preserves some comic distance from its characters) What is the effect and tone of the opening paragraphs? Can you comment on some features of Bronte's narrative style? For what themes does the narrator seem to prepare us? ![]() Although Bronte's novel vividly represents the limitations on Victorian middle-class women, however, it demonstrates how difficult it was for Bronte, as for most mid-Victorian writers, to portray working-class activism without resorting to stereotypes. Bronte was also influenced by her friend Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1847), which had portrayed the emotions of John Barton, a Chartist, with at least limited sympathy. ![]() 1848 was the year of the Great Charter and widespread social unrest Shirley was Bronte's attempt to widen the scope of her writing after having published Jane Eyre, an intensely subjective novel about the life of a governess. ![]()
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