"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"

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Anne Bronte wrote a book not unlike her sister Charlotte's romantic "Jane Eyre" and Emily's brooding "Wuthering Heights". The paper shows that the books all have a similar setting, the moorlands of northern England and a manor house set in the isolated landscape. The paper explains how "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" contains the bleakness and despair found in "Wuthering Heights" and the heroism in the character of "Jane Eyre".

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"Helen is a virtuous woman, and behaves in the way she has been brought up to do, only to find herself subject to cruelty by her husband. She endures the sham marriage, she is tempted by another man but resists that temptation. She finally leaves to make her own way, and finds that as a single mother supporting herself, there is no place for her in society, but she takes satisfaction from the knowledge that she has followed her principles. The motif of the book is the disparity between the sexes, and the general moral degradation of the men in the leisure classes."

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