Charlotte Bronte
1Masterpiece: Jane Eyre
2Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. It is noted to its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g the religious hypocrisy of charity institution such as Lowood School, where poor girls are treated constant starvation and humiliation, to be humble slave, the social discrimination . Jane experiences first as a dependant at her aunt’s house and later as a governess at Thornfield and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable, Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness
3The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine, Jane Eyre, and orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love his master, a man superior to her in many ways , and even is brave enough to declare to the man her love for him, cuts a completely new woman images. She represents those middle-class working woman who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being. That vivid description of her intense feeling and her thought and inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience.
Emily Bronte
1 Masterpiece: Wuthering Heights
2 The novel is a riddle of view, it is a story about a poor man abused, betrayed and distorted by his social betters, because he is a poor nobody. As a love story, this is one of the most misery: the passion between Heathcliff and Cathrine proves the most intense, the most beautiful and at the same time, the most horrible passion are to be fAlfred Tennyson
1. His poetry voices the doubt and the faith, the grief and the joy of English people in an age of fast social change.
2. In 1850, Tennyson was appointed the poet laureate.
3. Tennyson is a real artist. He has the natural power of linking visual picture with musical expression, and these two with the feelings.
4. His wonderful works manifest all the qualities of England’s great poets.
The dreaminess of Spencer, the majesty of Milton, the natural simplicity of Wordsworth, the fantasy of Blake and Coleridge, the melody of Keats and Shelley, and the narrative vigor of Scott and Byron.