Chapter1: Introduction and Background of Study

Charlotte Bronte a novelist, belongs to the early Victorian Age, which is undoubtedly
considered the most glorious epoch in history and English literature. It was an age of material
affluence, democratic heifers, social unrest, educational expansion, humanitarianism,
idealism, and imperialism. Most importantly, it was the age of great literary output, especially
the age of great prose and novels.

The English novels flowered and reached its acme during Victorian Age. The novels of this
age presented pictures of contemporary life and society and were humorous and sentimental.
Novelists like Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackeray, George Eliot, George Meredith, Thomas
Hardy, Mrs. Elisabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope and the Bronte Sisters, etc. contributed in
different ways to enrich the English novels. It Diners shone as the novelist of social reform
championing the cause of poor and oppressed, George Eliot attempted to depict the inner
conflict of the soul that governed human action. W.M. Thackeray was the first to use the
novel for satire purposed to express conscious eroticism of life; Thomas Hardy raised the
regional novel to the level of universal by giving it a philosophical appeal. Anthony Trollope
and Mrs. Gaskell were typical victorious adapters of contemporary institutional values; the
Bronte sisters proved to be truly new visionaries foraging their romantic view of life, which
concerned itself with the paring of the human soul. George Eliot and Meredith also represent
the intrinsic struggle of humans, but when it comes to pausing the deeper anguish of the soul,
they are incomparable to Charlotte Bronte and her two other sisters, Emily Bronte and Anne
Bronte. The introduction of passionate, love-wanted souls is the gift of Charlotte and Emily
Bronte to the world of novels.

The sequestered life of Charlotte Bronte and her sisters, passed entirely as the personage in
the moorland of Haworth in Yorkshire, London, is one of the strongest and most moving
accounts in literary biography. It is filled with struggles and disappointments they faced in
their personal lives, but they were certainly outshined by the genius and talent they possessed
in storytelling. The spontaneous pouring of their anguished hearts not only gave them
strength, name, and fame but also enriched the world of romantic fiction. Therefore, it would
not be out of place to know the life and personal world of Charlotte Bronte, which went into
the creation of an organic relationship with her world in fiction. All the fear her novels bear is
a testimonial to the kind of life she lived.

An analysis of the organic relationship between Charlotte Bronte and her fictional
world

Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, the third of six children of Maria and her
husband, Patrick Bronte, an Irish Anglican clergyman. In 1820, her family moved a few miles
to the village of Haworth, where her father had been appointed perpetual curate of St.
Michael and All Angels Church. Her mother died of concern on 15 September, 1821, leaving
five daughters, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and a son, Branwell, to be taken
care of by her sister, Elizabeth Branwell.
In August 1824, Patrick Bronte sent Charlotte, Emily, Maria and Elizabeth to the Clergy
Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Charlotte maintained the school's poor
conditions, which permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened
the deaths of Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815), who died of tuberculosis in June
1825. After the deaths of her older sisters, her father removed Charlotte and Emily from the
school. Charlotte used the school as the basis for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.

At home, Haworth Parsonage Charlotte acted as the motherly friend and guardian of her
younger sisters''. She and her surviving siblings, Branwell, Emily, and Anne, created their
own literary fictional worlds and began chronicling the lives and struggles of the inhabitants
of their imaginary kingdoms. Charlotte and Branwell wrote Byronic stories about their
imagined country,'' Angria'', and Emily and Anne wrote articles and poems about ''Gondal''.
The sagas they created were elaborate and convoluted (and exist in partial manuscripts) and
provided them with an obsessive interest during childhood and early adolescence, which
prepared them for literary vocations in adulthood.

Between 1831 and 1832, Charlotte continued her education at Roe Head in Mirfield, where
she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. In 1833, she
wrote a novella, The Green Dwarf, using the name Wellesley. Charlotte returned to Roe Head
as a teacher from 1835 to 1838. In 1839, she took up the first of many positions as governess
to families in Yorkshire, a career she pursued until 1841. Politically a Tory, she preached
tolerance rather than revolution. She held high moral principles and, despite her shyness, was
prepared to argue for her beliefs.

In 1842, Charlotte and Emily travelled to Brussels to enrol at the boarding school run by
Constantin Heger (1809–96) and his wife, Claire Zone Parent Heger (1804–87). In return for
board and tuition, Charlotte taught English and Emily taught music. Their time at the school
was cut short when Elizabeth Branwell, their aunt, who joined the family to look after the
children after the death of their mother, died from internal obstruction in October 1842.
Charlotte returned alone to Brussels in January 1843 to take up a teaching post at the school.
Her second stay was not happy; she was lonely, homesick, and deeply attached to Constantin
Heger. She returned to Haworth in January 1844 and used the time spent in Brussels as
inspiration for some of her experiences in The Professor and Villette.

In May 1846, Charlotte, Emily and Anne self-financed the publication of a joint collection of
poetry under their assumed names Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The pseudonyms veiled the
sisters' gender while preserving their initials; thus Charlotte was ''Currer Bell'. ''Bell'' was the
middle name of Haworth's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls, whom Charlotte married because of
the decision to use the nom de plume, Charlotte wrote.

Averse to personal publicity, we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis and Acton
Bell, the ambiguous choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming
Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women,
because—without at that time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what
is called 'feminine'—we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on
with prejudice; we had noticed how critics sometimes use for their chastisement the weapon
of personality, and for their reward, a flattery, which is not true praise.

Although only two copies of the collection of poetry were sold, the sisters continued writing
for publication and began their first novels, continuing to use their nom de plume when
sending manuscripts to potential publishers.
Charlotte's first manuscript, The Professor did not secure a publisher, although she was
heartened by an encouraging response from Smith, Elder, & Co. of Cornhill, who expressed
an interest in any longer works that ''Currer Bell'' might wish to send. Charlotte responded by
finishing and sending a second manuscript in August 1847, and six weeks later Jane Eyre: An
Autobiography was published. It tells the story of a plain governess (Jane) who, after early
life difficulties, falls in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester. They marry, but only after
Rochester's insane first wife (of whom Jane initially had no knowledge) dies in a dramatic
house fire.

Charlotte believed art was most convincing when based on personal experience; in Jane Eyre,
she transformed the experience into a novel with universal appeal. Commercially it was an
instant success and initially received favourable reviews. Critic G.H. Lewes wrote that it was
'' an utterance from the depths of a struggling, suffering, much-enduring spirit'', declaring it to
be ''suspiria de profundis!'' (sighs from the depths). The books' style was innovative,
combining naturalism with gothic melodrama and breaking new ground in being written from
an intensely first-person female perspective. Speculation about the identity of Currer Bell and
whether the author was male or female heightened with the publication of Emily's Wuthering
Heights by ''Ellis Bell'' and Anne's Agnes Greyby ''Acton Bell'. Accompanying the
speculation was a change in the critical reaction to Charlotte's work and accusations were
made that the writing was ''coarse'', a judgement more readily made once it was suspected
that ''Currer Bell'' was a woman. However, sales of Jane Eyre continued to be strong and may
have increased as a result of the novel developing a reputation as an 'improper' book.

Following the success of Jane Eyre, in 1848 Charlotte began work on the manuscript of the
second novel, Shirley. The manuscript was partially completed when the Bronte household
suffered a tragic series of events, including the deaths of three family members within eight
months. In September 1848, Branwell died of chronic bronchitis and marasmus exacerbated
by heavy drinking, although Charlotte believed his death was due to tuberculosis. Branwell
was a suspected ''opium eater'', a laudanum addict. Emily became seriously ill shortly after
Branwell's funeral, and she died of pulmonary tuberculosis in December 1848. Anne died of
the same disease in May 1849. Charlotte was unable to write at this time.

After Anne's death, Charlotte resumed writing about a way of dealing with her grief, and
Shirley, which deals with themes of industrial unrest and the role of women in society was
published in October 1849. Unlike Jane Eyre, which is written from the main character's first-
person perspective, Shirley is written in the third person and lacks the emotional immediacy
of her first novel, and reviewers found it less shocking.

In view of her novels' success, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her
publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to
move in more exalted social circles, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth
Gaskell and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G.H. Lewes. She never left
Haworth for more than a few weeks at a time, as she did not want to leave her ageing father.
Thackeray's daughter, writer Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie recalled a visit to her father by
Charlotte:

“...two gentlemen come in, leading a tiny, delicate, serious, little lady, with fair straight hair,
and steady eyes. She may be a little over thirty; she is dressed in a little barege dress with a
pattern of faint green moss. She enters in mittens, in silence, in seriousness; our hearts are
beating with wild excitement.” The moment is so breathless that dinner comes as a relief to
the solemnity of the occasion, and we all smile as my father stoops to offer his arm, for
genius though she may be Miss Bronte, she can barely reach his elbow. My own personal
impressions are that she is somewhat grave and stern, especially towards little girls who wish
to chatter. Everyone waited for the brilliant conversation, which never began at all. Miss
Bronte retired to the sofa in the study and murmured a low word now and then to our king
governess. The conversation grew dimmer and dim, the ladies sat around still expectant, and
my father was too perturbed by the gloom and the silence to be able to cope with it at all.
After Miss Bronte had left, I was surprised to see my father opening the front door with his
hat on. He put his fingers to his lips, walked out into the darkness, and shut the door quietly
behind him. Mrs. Procter asked me if I knew what had happened. It was one of the dullest
evenings [Mrs. Procter] had ever spent in her life. the ladies who had all come expecting so
much delightful conversation, and the gloom and the constraint, and how finally,
overwhelmed by the situation, my father had quietly left the room, left the house, and gone
off to his club.

Charlotte's friendship with Elizabeth Gaskell, although not necessarily close, was significant
in that Gaskell wrote Charlotte's biography after her death in 1855. Charlotte's third novel,
the last to be published in her lifetime, was Villette in 1853. Its main themes include
isolation, how such a condition can be borne, and the internal conflict brought about by
societal repression of individual desire. Its main character, Lucy Snowe, travels abroad to
teach in a boarding school in the fictional town of Villette, where she encounters a culture
and religion different from her own and falls in love with a man ('Paul Emanuel') whom she
cannot marry. Her experiences result in a breakdown, but eventually she achieves
independence and fulfilment by running her own school. Villette marked Charlotte's return to
writing from a first-person perspective (that of Lucy Snowe), the technique she had used in
Jane Eyre. Another similarity to Jane Eyre was the use of aspects from her own life as
inspiration for fictional events, in particular reworking the time she spent at the pensionnat in
Brussels into Lucy teaching at the boarding school and falling in love with Constantine Heger
into Lucy falling in love with 'Paul Emanuel '. Villette was acknowledged by critics of the
day as a potent and sophisticated piece of writing, although it was criticized for 'coarseness'
and not being suitably 'feminine' in its portrayal of Lucy's desires.

Before the publication of Villette, Charlotte received a proposal of marriage from Arthur Bell
Nicholls, her father's curate, who had long been in love with her. She initially turned down
his proposal, and her father objected to the union at least partly because of Nicholls' poor
financial status. Elizabeth Gaskell, who believed marriage provided 'clear and defined duties'
that were beneficial for a woman, encouraged Charlotte to consider the positive aspects of
such a union and tried to use her contacts to engineer an improvement in Nicholls's financial
situation. Charlotte meanwhile, was increasingly attracted to the intense attachment displayed
by Nicholls, and by January 1854, she had accepted his proposal. They gained the approval of
her father by April and were married in June. They took their honeymoon in Ireland.

Charlotte became pregnant soon after the marriage, but her health declined rapidly, and
according to Gaskell, she was attacked by ''sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring
faintness. ''Charlotte died with her unborn child on 31 March 1855, aged 38. Her death
certificate gives the cause of death as phthisis, but many biographers suggests he may have
died from dehydration and malnourishment, caused by excessive vomiting from severe
morning sickness or hyperemesis gravidarum. There is evidence to suggest that Charlotte
died from typhus which she may have caught form Tabitha Aykroyd, the Bronte household's
oldest servant, who died shortly before her. Charlotte was entered into the family vault in the
Church of St. Michael and All Angels at Haworth. Charlotte's first-written novel, The
Professor, was published posthumously in 1857. The fragment of a new novel she had been
working on in her last years has been completed twice by recent authors, the more famous
version being Emma Brown's A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Bronte
by Clare Boylan in 2003. Most of the writings about an imaginary country Angria have also
been published since the author's death.

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, The Life of Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857. It was an
important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's
approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she
concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life emphasizing aspects that countered the
accusations of 'coarseness' that had been levelled at her writing. Though frank in places,
Gaskell was selective about which details she revealed; she suppressed details of Charlotte's
love for Heger, a married man, as being too much of an affront to contemporary morals and a
source of distress to Charlotte's father, husband and friends. Gaskell provided doubtful and
inaccurate information about Patrick Bronte, claiming that he did not allow his children to eat
meat. This is refuted by one of Emily Bronte's diary papers, in which she describes preparing
meat and potatoes for dinner at the parsonage, as Juliet Barker points out in her biography,
The Bronte’s: A Life in Letters. It has been argued that the approach of Mrs. Gaskell
transferred the focus of attention away from the 'difficult' novels, not just Charlotte's but all
the sisters, and began a process of sanctification of their private lives.

On 29 July 1913, The Times printed four letters Charlotte had written to Constantine Heger
after leaving Brussels in 1844. Written in French except for one postscript in English, the
letters broke Charlotte's image as an angelic martyr to Christian and female duties that had
been constructed by many biographers, beginning with Gaskell. The letters, part of a larger
and somewhat one-sided correspondence in which Heger frequently appears not to have
replied, reveal that she had been in love with a married man, although they are complex and
have been interpreted in many ways. Some consider it an example of literary self-
dramatisation, and others take it as an expression of gratitude from a former pupil.

Problem statement

Charlotte Bronte who was the eldest sibling at her house was a charming and interesting
novelist. The main fact is that all three sisters called a thunderstorm in literature in the
Victorian period of the world. Charlotte Bronte's achievements are more distinctive than
those of her siblings. Her life is extremely interesting, melodramatic, and fascinating,
according to her novels (Sanders 2020). She always had the belief that art is the most
fascinating way of expressing your feelings and it can be more helpful if the feeling includes
personal experience. Her novel, Jane Eyre, which brought her a lifetime of fame from all over
the world not only from critics but also commercially, was generally her life experience. This
novel is based on the bitter experiences of Charlotte Bronte who had come to her life from
childhood to become an adult one after another. Her novels that also brought her fame were
The Professor, Villette and Shirley, which are also included in the list of novels inspired by
her lifetime incidents. According to Sanders (2020), even though she mixed all her life
experiences into her writings, it was her writing skill, technique, and quality style invented by
her brain that made an intelligent connection between her personal life feelings and the
fictional world created by her. Every novel written by Charlotte connects a person, incident,
or place from the perspective of the child to the adult. This connection between fictional
characters and their personal experiences brings the literature of the Victorian period to
another level. Jane Eyre published in 1847, became a grand success for Charlotte Bronte; it
brought her fame from all over the world, and many critics also started to blame or admire it
from different views. Pike (2020) stated that in the autumn of 1845, Charlotte showed interest
in poems by Emily, which finding led to the publication of a joint section of poems by
Currer, Ellis, and Action and Action Bell (1846), or Charlotte and her two sisters; the
pseudonyms thought that they would preserve secrecy and ignore the special behaviours
provided to women by the reviewers of literature. Although only two copies of the book were
sold, all of them got a lucky chance again against the Bronte sisters. Famous critic G.H.
Lewes commented after Jane Eyre became commercially successful, "an utterance from the
depths of a struggling, suffering much-enduring spirit.'' This novel is introduced with an
extreme first-person female perspective mixed with gothic melodrama and naturalism
grounded at a new level in the literary world. In the entire literary discoveries of Charlotte
Bronte, she has always shown herself as a romantic novelist drowned by the fire of her
imagination, clearly marking her different from the normal category of novelists and also
society (Friar 2019). She is considered an outcast because her thoughts have made her higher
than the people roaming around her. Although, Bronte's name is also listed in the works of
many other romantic poets and novelists, she was greatly influenced by William
Wordsworth's poetry and was also very familiar with S.T. Coleridge's writing. She was also
in favour of Shelly. In many poems by Bronte, several examples are given that prove a
parallel similarity between Shelly and Bronte. Bronte's writings are a fascinating way of
protesting the enforcement of silencing female voices and also many norms of society that
were looking down upon women (Chiu 2021). Although Bronte protests with her writings
about the situation that women were facing and the positioning of female characters in
several writings by male romantic poets, she also introduced a new type of heroine to the
literary world who was greatly elevating the position of women.

As mentioned earlier, this study will mainly focus on how her novels connect Charlotte
Bronte's personal life with the fictional world mentioned in them. According to Chiu (2021),
most nineteenth-century women writers have set their level in the conventional way of
composing their work in a feminine manner but Bronte successfully imitated male writers.
Bronte's romantic sights attracted most of the critics all over the world; however, a reviewer
also stated about Jane Eyre that if this book was written by a woman, it would be odious' but
it will be praised if it is written by a man. In Bronte's writings, she had elevated herself to
such a level that no one could personally define her as a woman. She always presented her
novels written by Currer Bell, whom she always referred to as 'him' when suggesting her
public name as the writer.

At the time, female writers were praised only when they were bound to write and project the
central character as a household worker, always celebrating home and always attentive to the
happiness of others. In many cases, poetry was also acceptable if the writer was not trying to
hurt rival male writers. Bronte's lifetime experience as a parallel writer also offers two words
worth. They had a very similar way of expressing their love for walking, which can be seen
in their writing contents. The goal of this type of literary romantic walk isn't to reach a
particular physical destination but certainly to a mental one by making free all mental
contemplations to jump into memory, recreate the internal senses, and finally return to a
normal self. The main need to go for this walking is not to explore physical natural beauty
outside in front of the eyes but to go beyond those physical scenes and feel the inner fictitious
world (Ogden and Cook 2019). Like Wordsworth, he always proffered the mind's eye rather
than the physical eye so that the internal beauty could be seen deeply. Charlotte's
contemporaries always prefer to walk and similarly, their own feet bring them to their
idealised destination. The protagonists are led to their inner selves by this type of mental
goal-searching with the help of the mental eye. The function of walking mentioned by Bronte
in her literary works means Moers assertion, which is narrated in terms of metaphor by the
whole literary world.

The Proposal line of Research (Objectives)

Charlotte Bronte belonged to a happy and complete family in her childhood. It consists of her
parents, her three sisters, one brother, and herself. Unfortunately, at first, her mother died,
and then her two sisters died. Her brother also died. Still, she continued to fight her life
struggle (White and Ferguson 2019). Despite all these difficulties, she never gave up on her
life. Eventually, the Bronte sisters brought a storm to English literature after they decided to
become novelists in their careers. As the female writers were extremely looked down upon at
that time by the male writers and novelists, they decided to express their writing skills with a
male pseudonym for each of them. Charlotte's character was called Currer Bell. Even after
taking a male pseudo name, some critics pointed out that Jane Eyre was written by two
different writers, both male and female; otherwise only a woman portrays Currer Bell's
character alone. The main features of the novels written by Charlotte Bronte were that every
novel and the maximum number of characters in those novels were connected with
Charlotte's childhood (Barotovna 2021). As her childhood was full of bitter experiences, her
fictional characters had the same situations throughout their lives.

The objective of this study is to establish how the novel's fictional characters are so realistic
and connected to Charlotte's life. The word imagination is situated within this novel.
Generally, this word refers to those contents that are produced by the mind itself and cannot
be seen in front of the eyes if needed. As the product is created by the mind, it is completely
visual; hence it cannot be touched or seen, so it's good to call it not real (Heitzman 2019).
Standing on the strength of characters and situations, the word gives suggestions about words
like artistic meditation, hope, fear, fantasy, image-making, nervous depression, etc. As a
result, these words disgrace words like cause, reality, fact, duty, conscience, and society.
Some novels welcome imagination more carefully than others. As a result, few victory
upholders always serve facts with practicality and equality. To cooperate with society and its
demands, other upholders should make a barrier of their imaginations and then implement it
in literature if that results in unpleasant results for society. Charlotte Bronte's writings are a
perfect combination of a proper balance of imagination and fact in large quantity.

The second objective of this study is to find out women's perspectives. Being a woman, her
strong character is evident in her novels (Bayley 2018). Her fictional characters always
protested against female dominance by male writers as much as possible. In that time, female
writers were admired by critics or male writers only if they showed their characters that they
loved only homemaking, were very careful and attentive about others happiness, etc., for
certain restrictions drawn around the female writer. However, Bronte's bold style of writing
never cared about those. She inspired a new generation of female writers to come out and
write beyond those unofficial boundaries and restrictions that were made by society.

Significance of the Study

This study on the available masterpieces created by Charlotte Bronte reveals the feminine
aspect of the literature (Karim S). Charlotte Bronte admitted her collaborative sense of
imagination before her first novel was published. The letters written by Bronte also prove her
fear of both pity and condemnation. She always had to struggle as she often got confused
between the imaginative world, which gave her a lot of pleasure, and the real world, where
she had to do many duties to save it from being disrespected by her. Bronte's early attachment
was always to the world that she made in her childhood days. She called this world an
internal world of imagination and recreation. Society did not approach Bronte in the manner
that the imagined world did to her. As a result of all of Bronte's novels, she remade the
helmsman ship between the imaginary world and the factual real world. Each standard-bearer
faced the struggle with a different view and manner to achieve more success than others.

Whether we want to understand the literary, social, and historical context of Bronte's
writings, we also want an understanding of cultural and social backgrounds and also have to
implement it (Gezairi 2018) stated that the start of the Victorian era was from 1837 to 1901,
which changed England in a massive way and impacted both social and economic conditions.
In 1840, England was considered the biggest merchant society and the largest colonial centre
in the world. While the upper and middle classes of Victorian England were prospering more
and more, the working class also started to question the working conditions as demeaning and
exploitative (Franklin 2018). There were also many queries about the destiny of young
unmarried surplus women among these working people, with supplies provided by the local
authority.

In the time of Victorian England, a governess's profession was specially slotted for middle-
class people, and Charlotte was one of them. While many women or daughters of respected
people from the upper classes worked in upper-class employment, the middle or lower class
hadn't any choice but to prefer their job according to their qualifications (Rutherford 2022). A
few writers, like Mathew Arnold remarked that at that time, England society was getting
more and more distracted by culture and art, which were the main subjects of these socio-
economic disturbances. While poetry and romanticism identified the Renaissance period,
Victorian England was also famous for its novels. At that time, several things were growing
like fiction but the most important thing was the rapid growth of the middle class. This study
mainly goes through the connection between the imaginative world and the real world of
Charlotte Bronte and their lovely execution in her novels.

Despite the fact that most novels are written to a degree that is deemed "imaginative
autobiography," Charlotte's every novel falls under a slightly different genre of fiction
(Klitgard 2020). The professor expresses a story of a self-made man and a self-made man that
quells imaginative expression to become successful in society. Jane Eyre tends towards
Gothic romance and satisfyingly mixes imagination and reason. It was her first book. The
professor could not find an interested publisher during her lifetime; her second book Jane
Eyre, brought her worldwide name and fame, both critically and commercially. It also came
to be discussed as the most successful novel of the era. Some critics went to the extent of
commenting that it is an impossible task to write such a novel by a woman. The famous
novelist George Eliot, though she admired the novel, could not restrain herself from saying
that Charlotte Bronte's characters spoke like ''the heroes and heroines of police reports." To
some other critics, Jan Eyre appeared to be purely 'unrealistic (Simonton 2020), while others
labelled it as ''an anti-Christian composition''. A few critics also praised the novel's bold
language and the unity of the plot.

The commentary with a touch of politics in Shirley needs a reason to influence because
Shirley is a novel that is all about characters that are fighting for their place in society. It
became the first regional novel filled with local characters, the cloth workers of the Yorkshire
church and chapel. It was fallowing the frame work of Maria Edgeworth and Sir Walter
Scott.

Another novel by Charlotte is Villette. It again elevates a woman to a self-dependent woman.

Again, the proponent made this novel's business famous, not the writing skills of Charlotte
Bronte. Mainly, imagination and determination are the main secrets to the success of Bront's
works. Admiration for Bronte's writings was at its peak in the first published novel by Bronte
(Tupa 2021). In every case, Bronte's heroine characters don't find lovers who are devoted and
humble. After travelling with Bronte metaphorically, Elliot wrote about Bronte, ''I am only
just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still
more wonderful book than Jane Eyre''. Bronte's works usually transport their readers to a new
world that is created imaginatively by her novels had a great influence on budding writers
like Alcott and Jasper Forde. Her fusion of romance and satire decoratively and her
innovative imaginations were the best examples of 'pictures of love from a woman's
standpoint, along with lyricism.

Structure of the Study

This study is based on the correlation between the real world and the imaginary world
introduced by Charlotte Bronte in her novels. So it will be much easier to take a detailed view
through the following chapter heads.

Chapter1: Introduction

As a renowned novelist, Charlotte Bronte was one of the most perfect novelists of the 19th
century. Although it is visible that she had a narrower range of writing compared to Dickens,
it is understandable considering her narrower range connected to her inner life and her private
passion. Despite the fact that Charlotte had passed through a lot of ups and downs in her life
with bitter experience, her works are a clear reflection of the genius she possessed, which
gave her strength, name, and fame. Every novel is connected to such experiences; whenever a
reader reads it, he or she can experience the clear relationship between the private and fiction
worlds of the author. This study finds and discusses those points, especially where Bronte's
real-life experience and imaginary world correlate together.

Chapter II: Charlotte Bronte and her world

This chapter makes a detailed study of each of her best novels from different points of view.
For example, Charlotte Bronte uses the imagery of nature mostly in Jane Eyre, where she
comments on both nature and its relationship with human nature. Many natural themes run
through the novel, such as the image of a stormy sea, flying birds, gothic imaginations,
telepathic relationships, etc. After Jane saves Rochester's life, she provides metaphors for
their relationship. Another interesting image is Bronte's treatment of birds (Steere 2020). We
witnessed quickly how Jane had identified with the bird. According to her birds, it is the way
of escape, the solution to flying above the everyday problems in life. The narrator also guides
and feeds the birds very often. Possibly Bronte is telling us that this idea of flying is just an
idea because the bird has to come back for nourishment. Further, the integral relationship
between her personal and fictional world and that of the contemporary social world will also
be studied in this chapter.

Chapter III: Plot Construction (Four Novels)

Charlotte Bronte was one of the best-known writers of the Victorian England era. Her novels
have been called a revolution in English literature. She had a different view of understanding
life, which she implemented in the imaginary world of literature. The main literary
constructions that made her famous overnight were Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), Villette
(1853), and The Professor (1857). Jane Eyre was the most famous novel by Bronte in which
the first-person narrative style was introduced by the writer. Although a female writer was
writing with a male pseudonym of Currer Bell, the feminine mark could not be missed.
Shirley was the second publication by Charlotte Bronte. This is also written with the male
pseudonym Currer Bell. This novel is mainly based in Yorkshire in 1811–12, during the
depression period due to the industrial revolution resulting from the Napoleonic Wars.
Villette was the third and last novel that was published in her lifetime (Diniz 2020). This
novel's plot was also extremely entertaining and enthusiastic, which piqued the interest of the
readers without any doubt. The first written novel by Charlotte Bronte was The Professor, but
due to the lack of interest of publishers, this novel was unfortunately published after the death
of Charlotte Bronte in 1857. The plot construction of Charlotte Bronte was, though, not as
immaculate as that of Jane Austen but they show the ramblings of the poetic and imaginative
mind quite successfully.

Chapter IV: Stylistic Design

Charlotte Bronte's writing style was her own. It was quite innovative for her time. In her
writings, she had extraordinary expressions with powerful statements by the characters,
making them unique from the usual novels. Voerman (2020) stated that in Jane Eyre, the
style and syntax of the sentences are complex, and phrases and clauses are connected
elaborately. After studying the biography of Charlotte Bronte, it is clear that the personal
experiences of the writer are recreated in the novel and are very balanced. Thus, this chapter
will be an honest effort at studying and analysing the stylistic designs of the novelist.

Chapter V: Narrative Art

A narrative text can be based on various aspects, like oral or written, the articulated activity
of language, etc. A proper novel remains in the present tense all the time (McCarthy 2019).
But Bronte's novels represent exceptional form. It follows the instincts of the human psyche.
In the conventional method, it cannot be called lyric or poetry. It rambles from the present to
the past and vice versa. The narrative art is also forced to go beyond conventional methods to
express the spontaneous outpouring of the soul of the author. Jane Eyre was written from the
first-person point of view, where the narrator is Jane (HAMOU 2020). Jane mainly narrates
from ten years earlier, from start to finish. Actually, Charlotte Bronte has mixed the narrative
style of the 'omniscient' author with the' first person singular' technique in her novels.
Consequently, all four novels will be studied from this point of view.

Chapter VI: Conclusion

After going through the study of the literary works by Charlotte Bronte and also after
discussing the background and heart-touching sorrowful life story of the writer, it can be
uncovered as a conclusion that Charlotte Bronte's literary works are not only unique literary
works from the view of writing style and narrative art but also a silent protest by her against
male dominance. It is also observed that whatever the situation, Bronte didn't give up, kept on
writing, and created a permanent niche for herself. In fact, the 'conclusion' shall be an attempt
to establish the fact that the intense moods of her own heart and imagination found a way to
express the moods of her fictional characters by touching the nerve and the mood of the race.

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