Chapter1: Introduction

Background of Study

Charlotte Bronte a novelist belongs to early Victorian Age, the age which is undoubtedly
considered as the most glorious epoch in the 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 novel.

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 which governed human action. W.M. Thackeray was the first to use the
novel for satiric purposed to express conscious eroticism of life; Thomas Hardy raised the
regional novel to the level of universal there by giving it a philosophical appeal. It Anthony
Trollope and Mrs. Gaskell were typical victorious adapting to the contemporary institutional
values; the Bronte sisters proved to be truly new visionary foraging their romantic view of
life which concerned itself with paring of the human soul. George Eliot and Meredith also
represent the intrinsic struggle of human but when it comes to pausing the deeper anguish of
soul they were incomparable to Charlotte Bronte and her two other sisters named Emily
Bronte and Anne Bronte. The introduction of passionate love wandered 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 disappointment they faced in
their personal life but were certainly outshined by the genius and talent they possessed in
storytelling. The spontaneous pouring of their anguished heart 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 fictions. All the fear her novels bear is a
testimonial to the kind of life she had 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 Maria and her husband
Patrick Bronte, an Irish Anglican clergyman. In1820, 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 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 permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened the death
of Maria (born1814) 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 enroll 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 the
inspiration for some 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 whilst preserving their initials, thus Charlotte was ''Currer Bell'. ''Bell'' was the
middle name of Haworth's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls whom charlotte married of the
decision to use 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 notice 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 which ''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 favorable 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 broke 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 judgment 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, 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 become seriously ill shortly after
Branwell's funeral, and died of pulmonary tuberculosis in December 1848. Anne died of the
same disease in May1849. Charlotte was unable to write at this time.

After Anne's death Charlotte resumed writings 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 form 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 can barely reach his elbow. My own personal
impressions are that she is somewhat grave and stern specially to forward little girls who
wish to chatter... Every one 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 more dim, the ladies sat round still
expectant, my father was too much perturbed by the gloom and the silence to be able to cope
with it at all... after Miss Bronte had left, I was surprise 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... long afterwards. 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, whilst not necessarily close, was significant in
that Gaskell wrote Charlotte's biography after her death in 1855. Charlotte's third novel, the
last 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 difference
from her own, and where she falls in love with a man ('Paul Emanuel') whom she cannot
marry. Her experiences result in a breakdown, but eventually she achieves independence and
fulfillment 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 January1854 she had accepted his proposal. They
gained the approval of her father by April, and 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 in 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 twice completed by recent authors, the more famous
version being Emma Brown; 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 analyzing her subject's achievements, she
concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life emphasizing aspects which countered the
accusations of 'coarseness' which had been leveled 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
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 in1844. 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 as an example of literary self-
dramatization and other 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 all three sisters called a thunderstorm in literature in the Victorian
period of the world. Compared to other siblings Charlotte Bronte has more achievements that
are distinctive. Her life is extremely interesting, melodramatic, and fascinating according to
her novels (Sanders2020). She always had a 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 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 also included in the list of the novels inspired by her lifetime
incidents. According to Sanders (2020) Even though she mixed all her life experiences in her
writings it was her writing skill, technique, and quality style invented by her brain which
makes an intelligent connection between her personal life feeling and the fictional world
created by her. Every novel written by Charlotte connects a person, incident, or place from
the phrase of the child to the adult. This connection between fictional characters and her
personal experiences brings to another level in the literature of the Victorian period era. Jane
Eyre published in 1847 became a grand success for Charlotte Bronte; it brought her fame
from all over the world, along with 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 behaviors provided to women
by the reviewers of literature. Although only two copies of the book were sold and all of them
got a lucky chance again state 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 in a new
level in the literary world. In the entire literary discoveries of charlotte Bronte, she always
has 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 considers an outcast because her thoughts have made her higher than the people roaming
around her. Although, Bronte's name is also listed in good books of many more romantic
poets and novelists. She was greatly influenced by William Wordsworth's poetry and also
was very familiar with S.T. Coleridge's writing. She was also in favor of Shelly. In many
poems by Bronte, several examples are there which proved 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 the society which 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 shall mainly focus on how her novel are connecting 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 will be written by a man. In Bronte's writings, she had elevated herself to
such a level where no one can define her personally as a woman. She always presented her
novels worked 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 are bound to write and project the
central character as a household worker or always celebrating home, 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 visible
from their writing contents. The goal for this type of literary romantic walk doesn't reach a
particular physical destination but certainly to a mental one by making free all mental
contemplations to jump into memory and 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 can be seen deeply. Charlotte's
contemporaries always prefer to walk and similarly their own feet bring them to their
idealized destination. The protagonists are led to their inner self 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 in English literature after they decided to
become Novelists in their career. 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 every
novel and maximum characters in those are connected with the childhood of Charlotte
(Barotovna 2021). As her childhood was full of bitter experiences her fictional characters had
the same situations throughout their life.

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 been produced from 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
(Heitzman2019). Standing on the strength of characters and situations, the word gives
suggestions about the words like artistic meditation, hope, fear, fantasy, image-making,
nervous depression, etc. As a result, these words have a disgrace with the words like cause,
reality, fact, duty, conscience, and society. Some novels welcome imagination more carefully
than others. As a result few victory upholders always are serving facts with practicality well
with equality. To co-operate with society and its demands other upholders should make a
barrier of their imaginations and then implementation in literature if that results unpleasant to
the society. Charlotte Bronte's writings are a perfect combination of a proper balance of
imagination and fact in a large quantity.

The second objective of this study is to find out the women's perspective. Being a woman
her strong character making in her novels (Bayley2018). Her fictional characters always
protested against female domination by the male writers as much as possible. In that time
female writers were admired by critics or male writers only if they showed their characters as
they love only homemaking, they are very careful and attentive about other's happiness, etc.,
type reasons where there are 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 restriction
borders that were made by the 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 feeling of
imagination before her first novel was published. The letters written by Bronte also proves
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 getting disrespected by her. Bronte's early attachment
was always with 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 major Bronte's novels, she remade the
helmsman ship between the imaginary world and the factual real world. Each standard-bearer
had 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 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 form and impacted both social and economic
conditions. In 1840, England was considered the biggest merchant society and largest
colonial center all over the world. While the upper and middle classes of Victorian England
were getting more and more prosper, then 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 of 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 but the middle or lower
class hadn't any choice to prefer their job according to their qualifications (Rutherford2022).
A few writers like Mathew Arnold remarked that time England society was getting more and
more distracted by culture and art from the main subject of these socio economic
disturbances. While poetry and romanticism identified the renaissance period, Victorian
England was also famous for its novel. At that time several things were growing like fiction
but the most important thing was the growth of the middle classes rapidly. This study mainly
goes through the connection between the imaginative world and the real world of Charlotte
Bronte and also 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 comes 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 tended toward
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 admired the novel she could not restrain herself in saying that
Charlotte Bronte's Characters spoke like ''the heroes and heroines of police reports." To some
other critic Jan Eyre appeared to be purely 'unrealistic'(Simonton2020), some others labeled it
as ''an anti-Christian composition''. Few critics also praised the novel's bold language and the
unity of plot.

The commentary with the 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 Yorkshire
church and chapel. It was fallowing the frame work of Maria Edge worth 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 the
works of Bronte. Admiration for Bronte's writings was at its peak from the first published
novel of Bronte (Tupa 2021). In every case Bronte's heroine characters don't find lovers who
are devoted and humble, after traveling 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 'picture of love from a woman's
standpoint along with lyricism.

Structure of the Study

As 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 a lot of ups and downs in her life with
bitter experienced and her works are a clear reflection of that the genius she possessed gave
her strength, name and fame. Every novel is connected to such experiences whenever a reader
reads it he/she can experience the clear relationship between the private and fiction, world 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 point 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
inside the novel, such as the image of a stormy sea, flying birds, gothic imaginations,
telepathic relationship etc. After Jane saves Rochester's life, she provides metaphors for their
relationship. Another interesting image is Bronte's treatment of birds(Steere2020). We
witness quickly how Jane had identified with the bird. According to her birds is the way of
escape, the solution to fly above the everyday problems in life. The narrator also guides to
feed 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 nourishments. Further, the integral relationship
between her personal and fictional world to that of the contemporary social world shall be
also studied in this chapter.

Chapter III: Plot construction (Four Novels)

Charlotte Bronte was one of the well-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 it in the imaginary world of literature. The main literary
constructions which 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 of 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 the last novel that was published in her lifetime (Diniz 2020). This novel's
plot wasalsoextremelyentertainingandenthusiastictopulltheinterestofthereaders 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 published unfortunately afterthedeathofCharlotte
Brontein1857.Theplotconstruction of Charlotte Bronte was though, not as immaculate as that
of Jane Austen but they show the ramblings of 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 written in extraordinary expressions with powerful statements by the
characters making it unique from the usual novels. Voerman(2020) stated that in Jane Eyre
the style and the 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 in studying and analyzing the stylistic designs of the novelist.

Chapter V: Narrative Art

A narrative text can be based upon 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 instinct of human
psyche. In the conventional method it cannot be called lyric or poetry. It rambles from
present to past and vice-versa. The narrative art is also enforced to go beyond conventional
methods to express the spontaneous outpouring of the soul of the author. Jane Eyre was
written in the first-person point of view, where the narrator is Jane (HAMOU 2020). Jane
mainly narrates from ten years earlier from start to end. Actually charlotte Bronte has mixed
the narrative style of the 'omniscient' author with the' first person singular' technique in her
novels. Consequently, all the four novels shall 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 the unique
literary work from the view of writing style, narrative art but also it is a silent protest by her
against the male dominance. It is also observed that whatever be the situation Bronte didn't
give up and kept on writing and created a permanent niche for herself. In fact, the 'conclusion'
shall be an attempt in establishing the fact that the intense moods of her own heart and
imagination found way in expressing the moods of her fictional characters, there by touching
the nerve and the mood of the race.

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