(70, 71 generous associated with love, warmth, romantic poetry suggestions of submerged emotion, unsettled yet depressed) What can we tell of her Caroline's character and situation from her conversation? Otherwise perhaps Caroline might at first seem somewhat uninteresting.) (Hortense prissy and self-righteous, domineering, unable to adjust to English life-again, we are expected to feel sympathy for a character from contrast. How is Hortense presented, and what function does she serve in this chapter? What do we first learn of Caroline Helstone's character, and how does the narrator's point of view affect our sympathies? (67) How does Joe Scott describe himself? (59-60) What do we know about Moore's first hypothetical opponent? (16) In what other contexts do we first hear of working people? (30) (contrast between their politics, 37-Moore a Whig in contrast with Yorke, he advocates what Bronte presents as moderate political views, 56-57)) What are some contrasts between the characters of Malone and Moore? (19) Between Helstone and Moore? (contrasted with frivolous curates, seen as brave, solitary curates don't wish to help him, 14 he resents gossip about his possible marriage, 23 is devoted to his business causes) How is Robert Moore described? (27) What is significant about his background and character? How does the novel's portrayal affect the reader's sympathy for his position? (25) (anti-romantic manifesto, intends to discuss issues of work preserves some comic distance from its characters) What is the effect and tone of the opening paragraphs? Can you comment on some features of Bronte's narrative style? For what themes does the narrator seem to prepare us? Although Bronte's novel vividly represents the limitations on Victorian middle-class women, however, it demonstrates how difficult it was for Bronte, as for most mid-Victorian writers, to portray working-class activism without resorting to stereotypes. Bronte was also influenced by her friend Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1847), which had portrayed the emotions of John Barton, a Chartist, with at least limited sympathy. 1848 was the year of the Great Charter and widespread social unrest Shirley was Bronte's attempt to widen the scope of her writing after having published Jane Eyre, an intensely subjective novel about the life of a governess.

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