The three Bront sisters
Charlotte (Charlotte Bront) (1816-1855)
Charlotte is like the character she successfully created, Jane. Love is the same, short in stature, unattractive in appearance, full of wisdom and independent spirit. Although she looks old-fashioned and silent, she has a gentle and sensitive heart. After the unfortunate early death of her two sisters, she became the eldest daughter in the family. She had a sacred sense of caring for others since she was a child, and with her delicate body, she took on the important task of developing the family's external relations. Constant self-improvement and striving for progress have become the main theme of her life. Her temperament is a unique combination of romance and rigor, which makes her enthusiastic, unrestrained, and full of fantasy, and full of challenging spirit; at the same time, she is conservative and steady, restrains herself, and abides by traditional moral standards. She is not only a good daughter, a good sister, a good wife, and a good friend, but also has a gentle and passionate side. At the same time, she is a warrior who despises the hypocrisy of the upper class and makes sharp satire on the ugly world. The two aspects of her personality constitute her restless and rich inner world, which also makes her works more passionate and innovative, with shocking artistic charm. Charlotte's neither humbleness nor arrogance, innocence and enthusiasm, humility and simplicity are all reflected in the heroines in her works. Her works can be said to be the natural outpouring of her intelligent mind and passionate heart. Thackeray said in his article "The Last Sketch" in memory of Charlotte: "Anyone who has read her books cannot admire this woman's ardent love for truth, her courage, her innocence, Her indignation against evil, her fervent love and faith, her passionate sense of honor were the characteristics of this woman." This passage may be said to be true of Charlotte. Portrait. Charlotte's works mainly describe the loneliness, resistance and struggle of the poor petty bourgeoisie, and she belongs to what Marx called the "excellent group" headed by Dickens. "Jane Eyre" is her debut novel and her representative work, which is still popular among readers. In fact, the three Bronte sisters have been passionate about writing since they were children. They often wrote novels about the earl in their notebooks together, but unfortunately they were all lost in the future. Charlotte also published a collection of poems. Her other novels include: Shirley (1849), Villette (1853). Among them, "Villette" can be regarded as her personal autobiography in the form of a novel, which is very similar to her life experience. This female writer who was born with a frail body is a bright pearl in the British literary world in the 19th century. Emily Bront Emily (1818-1848)
Sister of Charlotte Bront, sister of Anne Bront. Beginning to write poetry as a teenager, the three sisters published a self-published collection of poems in 1846, focusing on Emily. The style of her poems is often direct and emotional, and the descriptions of scenery are often remote and lonely. But her novel Wuthering Heights overshadowed her poetry. Emily Bronte was considered the most gifted of the three sisters. She is taciturn, autistic, arrogant and eccentric. She loves the wilderness and has almost no friends in her life. But she had amazing imagination and outstanding literary talent, and created a large number of lyric poems. She is famous in the literary world for her only novel "Wuthering Heights", and is known as the most unique female writer in the history of British literature in the 19th century. "Wuthering Heights" is considered to be one of the strangest and most shocking novels in the history of British fiction. This tragic novel describes the story of Heathcliff, an abandoned gypsy boy who was adopted by the old owner of the mountain villa. Due to humiliation and failed love, he went out to get rich. When he came back, he took revenge on the landowner Linton who married Catherine and his children. . The novel is full of a strong spirit of struggle against oppression, and the inner world of the characters shown has an extraordinary passion and rebellious spirit. The text of the novel has been called "a perfect and moving narrative poem." Charlotte and the biographer tell us that Emily was independent, open-minded, innocent, resolute, passionate and introverted by nature. She is quite masculine and loves the wilderness where she grew up. She has always lived in isolation. Apart from brotherhood, she most likes to be friends with nature. From her poems and her life's actions, we can see the expression of her cosmology and outlook on life. , some people regard her as a mystic because of this. In fact, the relationship between man and nature has always been an important proposition in the history of human civilization. Emily is just following in the footsteps of philosophers, hermits, scientists, and artists of all ages. Through life and creation, she has personally explored the relationship between man and nature. Because Emily's life experience was short, she neither received a complete systematic education nor had any actual experience in love and marriage. People were puzzled that she could write such a profound and unique love song as "Wuthering Heights". Some people have long explained this problem with the "genius theory", and after more than a hundred years of research and textual research, biographers and critics have come up with more convincing evidence. Although Emily and her sisters grew up in the cold and monotonous Yorkshire, their father, Patrick Bront?, was from Northern Ireland, and their mother, Maria Branwell, was from Wales. The ancestors of this pair of parents were both Celts with an impulsive and romantic temperament, and both of them had the talent to write poems and articles: Patrick had always had literary ambitions and had published a collection of poems at his own expense; Maria wrote a poem before she got married The love letter to Patrick is also brilliantly written.
Inheriting the genetic genes of her parents and being nurtured by the spirit of the wilderness, Emily's artistic genius is undoubtedly not without a source; and her family's parsonage on the edge of the wilderness, although it looks cold and shabby on the outside, has a few interior features. Children with extraordinary talents are close to each other and are warm and pleasant. They encouraged each other and discussed each other since childhood, and enjoyed reading and writing. On the one hand, this greatly dilutes the suffering of material scarcity; at the same time, it also cultivates and exercises their writing skills. Emily's writing began with poetry. During the sixteen or seventeen years before she started writing "Wuthering Heights", she successively wrote the study poem "The Legend of Gondal" and short poems. As of now, there are only nearly 200 poems. . Regardless of their own artistic value, these words are at least a useful preparation for creating the immortal work "Wuthering Heights". In other words, her writing of "Wuthering Heights" was a continuation of her poetry writing. Her poems are sincere, powerful, rough, deep and noble, which is also the style of "Wuthering Heights". Anne Bront (Anne Bront) (1820-1849)
The youngest girl in the Bront family, she was gentle and demure, quiet and introverted, and slightly less talented than her two sisters. . She only lived to be 29 years old, and in the last ten years of her short life, her depressing job as a governess took up a lot of her time, but she still wrote two novels, "Agnes Grey" and "Wilder". "The Tenant of Phil's House" occupies a certain position in the history of British literature. The novels written by her are just like herself, giving people a sense of tranquility. The protagonists all have pure moral character and bravely pursue independence and happiness. This is also a portrayal of Anne's heart. The directness and clarity of Ann's writing are more reminiscent of the eighteenth-century writings than of the Victorian writers of her time. Anne has been reading with her sisters since she was a child and participated in their literary games. She was eagerly immersed in the kingdom of dreams and wrote a large number of sad little hymns. She has beautiful light brown hair, lovely blue eyes with a tinge of violet, fair skin, and a gentle and lovely appearance. She is deeply loved by her aunt. She and Emily were like twin sisters, inseparable and close. They often wrote diaries together or roamed in the wilderness, and gave beautiful names to the places they were familiar with. She has a thin and sweet voice, and likes soft harmonies. She plays the piano and sings in her spare time, but this kind of pleasant pleasure is too rare in her life. Later, Ann went to Miss Wooler's school with her sister Charlotte for a period of time, but soon she fell ill, had difficulty breathing, coughed constantly, and her body gradually weakened. Thinking of her two sisters who died of illness, Charlotte was worried and decided to take Ann back to Haworth. After returning to his free and peaceful home, An En's illness slowly improved. In order to make a living, in April 1839, she went to Blake House in Muerfield and worked as a tutor at Mrs. Ingham's house. Later, she worked as a governess at Edmund Robinson's house in Thorpe Green. Her experiences as a tutor directly provided a lot of material for the novel "Agnes Grey". The publisher Mr. Smith has a precious description of Anne: "She is a gentle, quiet, and quite self-denying person. She is not beautiful at all, but her appearance is very pleasant. Her attitude is strangely that of asking for protection and support. "An En was frail and sick all his life, but underneath his frail appearance, he had a strong will and a brave and persistent heart. Every adult has a childhood, and every child has dreams of seven colors. Dreams are illusions: suspended, misty, and easily lost. But there are a few girls who hold on to their dreams tightly. They persist in the weaving of dreams, and finally turn their fantasies into reality and gain the eternity of the value of life. This is a cultural phenomenon provided by the three Bront? sisters who appeared in the British literary world in the 19th century.