Essay
'The Bildungsroman is a fundamentally optimistic genre'. Discuss with reference to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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As Ellis notes, ‘Jane Eyre retains all the key thematic elements of the Bildungsroman’, and certain passages within her narrative offer an optimistic outlook and conclusion to her tribulations. Thus, I will examine the view that ‘the Bildungsroman is a fundamentally optimistic genre’, whil...
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