Romantic and Realistic Aspects in the Bronte Sisters’ Novels

This study chose the novels of the Bronte sisters as a literary specimen to test the different theories accounting for what falls within the scope of Realism and what of Romanticism. Why the Bronte sisters? Because they lived within the same family circle, hence have the same experiences and social circumstances. Similarity is enhanced by their femaleness. Their being siblings would overcome the ‘mistaken’ association between Romanticism-upper class of luxury and ivory towers and Realism-middle and lower classes of poverty and disease dichotomy, which is the first of melting,vanishing ‘dividing-lines.’ These three sisters produce three different literary renderings of somehow identical experiences (backgrounds).

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