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    Ready Reference Treatise: Villette
    Ready Reference Treatise: Villette
    Ready Reference Treatise: Villette
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    Ready Reference Treatise: Villette

    By Raja Sharma

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    “Villette” by Charlotte Bronte was first published in 1857. The story is set in the English countryside, in London. Villette is a fictional city, primarily based upon Brussels. The fictional city is situated in the fictional Kingdom of Labassecour. The Kingdom is based upon Belgium. In French language, Labassecour means farmyard.

    Lucy Snowe is the central character and protagonist of the novel. She goes through an unspecified family disaster. She travels to England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette. She is to teach at a girls’ school in Villette. While teaching, she is drawn into romance and adventure.

    Ready Reference Treatise: Villette
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    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Major Characters
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateOct 21, 2015
    ISBN9781311841476
    Ready Reference Treatise: Villette
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Ready Reference Treatise: Villette

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      Villette by Charlotte Bronte was first published in 1857. The story is set in the English countryside, in London. Villette is a fictional city, primarily based upon Brussels. The fictional city is situated in the fictional Kingdom of Labassecour. The Kingdom is based upon Belgium. In French language, Labassecour means farmyard.

      Lucy Snowe is the central character and protagonist of the novel. She goes through an unspecified family disaster. She travels to England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette. She is to teach at a girls’ school in Villette. While teaching, she is drawn into romance and adventure.

      It was the fourth novel written by Charlotte Bronte, preceding The Professor that was published posthumously. It is definitely not an easy novel, for nothing is immediately told about the heroine of the novel, Lucy Snowe.

      Under the surface of the narrative, the darkness of despair can be sensed throughout the story. It is present even during happy episodes. The narrator is definitely unreliable and that is what makes this particular novel quite different from the famous novel ‘Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, and many other novels of the time.

      The first person narration and the literary ideas of point of view have been extensively explored by the author; however, it is not an experiment, because the execution is quite masterful.

      Villette is a highly culturally conservative and fatalistically feminist novel. It is a deeply personal work of literature as well.

      The author obviously does not believe in ‘happy ending.’ It was Charlotte Bronte’s belief that God predestined some people for happiness and some people for sorrow. The story of Villette clearly presents the author’s this belief.

      She was very well aware of the marginalization of women, the shortcomings of class structure, and the sorrows and sufferings in most people’s lives during her time and at her place. She knew that for a middle class woman without a family and beauty life was very difficult.

      Charlotte Bronte presents very emphatic contrasts between Lucy and Dr. John. Lucy is utterly poor and unlovely woman, whereas Dr. John has limitless opportunities. It is obvious that the novel is highly influenced by Charlotte Bronte’s own experiences in life.

      Villette is a partially autobiographical novel. Charlotte Bronte had been a teacher in Brussels and she had fallen in love with a schoolmaster there. The author has left no stone unturned to provide the realistic touch to this lengthy work of fiction.

      The book is taught as several schools and colleges in the English language course. At the same time, it is generally there in the reading lists of the school curriculum and libraries throughout the world.

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      Lucy Snowe, the protagonist and the central character of the novel, is a highly passive character. As the novel begins, she is fourteen years old. She lives with her godmother Mrs. Bretton in the town of Bretton, in England. It is a clean and ancient town.

      John Graham Bretton is Mrs. Bretton’s son. He also lives in the house. There is another person living in the house. She is a young visitor named Paulina Home. She is also called Polly. She happens to be a strange little girl. She very soon gets devoted to John Graham. He pays enormous attention to her.

      Polly has to leave the house when her father comes to take her away. Only after a few weeks of Polly’s departure, Lucy leaves Mrs. Bretton’s home for the reasons not made known.

      The narrative resumes after the gap of some years. During that period, Lucy happens to have lost her family, home, and other means to survive. The narrator does not specify how the tragedy occurred.

      Lucy begins to look for some work. Miss. Marchmont happens to be a rheumatic crippled woman.

      After a little hesitation, she hires Lucy as a caregiver. She learns her work very quickly and begins to feel satisfied with her simple and quiet life in the house of Mrs. Marchmont.

      One evening, a dramatic weather change causes a great transformation in Miss. Marchmont. She gets back all her energies. She feels young again.

      She narrates her thirty years old love story to Lucy. She decides to treat Lucy better. She is convinced that after her death she will be reunited with her dead lover. The following morning, Lucy finds Marchmont dead in her room.

      After the death of Miss Marchmont, Lucy goes to London. She happens to be twenty-three years old when she boards a ship for Labassecour although she knows only very little French. She reaches the city of Villette. She begins to work at Mme. Beck’s boarding school for girls as a bonne, nanny.

      After some time, she

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