Emily and Charlotte Bronte, comparison and contrast essay

When looking at important literary novels in history, it is impossible to ignore the

Bronte sisters. Although Charlotte and Emily Bronte grew up in the same
environment, the experiences each took from her childhood and how she adapted
them in her brilliant novel differs greatly. Although the style and structure of the
two most famous Bronte novels - Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering
Heights - are similar, the themes, characters, and basic plot are contrasting.
To compare the characterization of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, one must
also contrast it at the same time. While both the sisters created characters with
similar countenances, they also created characters with significant differences.
Similarities can be seen in the Reed family of Jane Eyre and Hindley in Wuthering
Heights. Jane is viewed by the Reed's as an outsider, someone that has no values,
and is dispensable. They regret the fact that they must raise her, and feel that the
burden is too much and the reward too little. The family treats Jane terribly.
Heathcliff is also viewed by Hindly as a burden, as someone not worthy and he is
treated in the worst conceivable way.
In Wuthering Heights, we can see that death is a very present symbol and all
events take place around it, while in Jane Eyre death is less present. In jane Eyre's
novel there is a transformation of Jane’s education and how she became a
successful teacher and everyone loved her. And she achieved that by studying hard
while Chatherine loved reading but she was not very committed to education.
Charlotte has a simple style of writing and a simpler vocabulary and events follow
a chronology while Emily goes from present to past and vice versa.
Even though there are some differences in both novels I would say that there are
more similarities between them. They both authored beautiful and painful stories
which nowadays are so well-known.
Selma Arapi