PROJECT: ANALYSIS ESSAY OF JANE EYRE AND EMILY BRONTË OBJECTIVES
Convey complex ideas clearly and accurately.
Write literary analysis with a focus on clarity and precision of expression.
Develop writing topic thoroughly using a variety of effective supporting content.
Support textual analysis with strong textual evidence.
Integrate textual support selectively and appropriately.
Distinguish between quoted material and paraphrased ideas.
Format quotations and works cited according to MLA guidelines.
Apply conventions of formal language when speaking and writing.
Use writing process to develop and strengthen writing for purpose and audience.
Express ideas clearly and persuasively in collaborative contexts.
Before You Begin
You have just spent several lessons studying and analyzing the novel, Jane Eyre, and its author, Charlotte Brontë. Brontë uses that novel as a mechanism for revealing some of the gender and class issues common to the Victorian Era. Moreover, it can be argued that the character Jane Eyre is a reflection of the author herself.

You are going to do some research, using a webquest, to compare and contrast Jane Eyre and Charlotte Brontë. You will have a chart that you will need to complete; the information in this chart will help to support a thesis in the essay you will be assigned to write. The topics in the chart should guide your research and help you focus on important details that will support your project.

Create a chart (see the example below) with information that you find during your webquest. This chart should be a useful tool in helping you compare and contrast the character Jane Eyre with her creator, Charlotte Bronte. You will have to utilize some of the information from this chart in an essay. Be sure to indicate the source from which you retrieved the information in each box.

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Physical description
Gender roles/gender issues
she encountered
Social class roles/social class
issues she encountered
Personality traits
Now, you will use the information you gathered in your chart to write your essay.

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Analyze your chart. You spent time figuring out characteristics in each poem and the literary period to which your poems belong. Your notes will be helpful in structuring your comparative essay. Compare only two or three points. Don’t try to cover too much material. That way, you will be able to show a more thorough understanding of the two periods.

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Directions
Respond to the following prompt by writing a comparitive essay of at least 750 words.

Jane Eyre was first published under the pseudonym of "Currer Bell." Ten years earlier, Charlotte Brontë sent a sample of her work to the Poet Laureate of the time, Robert Southey. His reply gives us an insight into society’s opinion of women writers in 1837:

“ . . . Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life, and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure she will have for it, even as accomplishment and a recreation. To those duties you have not yet been called, and when you are you will be less eager for celebrity . . .”

Explain how both the author and her character represent “the outsider,” the free spirit struggling for recognition and self-respect in the face of rejection by a class-ridden and gender-oriented society. 750 Words (doesn't have to be at least 300)