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  2. Jane Eyre - Wikipedia

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    Jane Eyre (/ ɛər / AIR; originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. [2]

  3. Things Fall Apart - Wikipedia

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    Things Fall Apart is the 1958 debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It portrays the life of Okonkwo, a traditional influential leader of the fictional Igbo clan, Umuofia. He is a feared warrior and a local wrestling champion who opposes colonialism and the early Christian missionaries.

  4. Jane Eyre (character) - Wikipedia

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    Jane Eyre is the fictional heroine and the titular protagonist in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name.The story follows Jane's infancy and childhood as an orphan, her employment first as a teacher and then as a governess, and her romantic involvement with her employer, the mysterious and moody Edward Rochester.

  5. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    The key thesis of the book: "However many characters may appear in a story, its real concern is with just one: its hero. It is the one whose fate we identify with, as we see them gradually developing towards that state of self-realization which marks the end of the story.

  6. Literary modernism - Wikipedia

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    Modernism, with its sense that 'things fall apart,' can be seen as the apotheosis of romanticism, if romanticism is the (often frustrated) quest for metaphysical truths about character, nature, a higher power and meaning in the world. [11] Modernism often yearns for a romantic or metaphysical centre, but later finds its collapse.

  7. Edward Rochester - Wikipedia

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    Edward Rochester is the oft-absent master of Thornfield Hall, where Jane Eyre is employed as a governess to his young ward, Adèle Varens.Jane first meets Rochester while on a walk, when his horse slips and he injures his foot.

  8. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, which is known as "the classic example of first-person narrative" A classic example of a first-person protagonist narrator is Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre (1847), [ 1 ] in which the title character is telling the story in which she herself is also the protagonist: [ 6 ] "I could not unlove him now ...

  9. List of fictional antiheroes - Wikipedia

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    Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe: 1958 [37] Elric of Melniboné: Elric of Melniboné: Michael Moorcock: 1961 [38] Yossarian: Catch-22: Joseph Heller [39] Alex: A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess: 1962 [14] Paul Atreides: Dune: Frank Herbert: 1965 [40] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Tom Stoppard: 1966 [41 ...