Title: Class Consciousness in Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor (1857)
Alphonse Sambou
Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor/Senegal
Abstract
This article is a reflection on the Victorian society as described by Charlotte Bronte. It tries to highlight the different evils of English society in the 19th century. Indeed, it shows to what extent the themes of class struggle, solitude, gender, and, finally, social injustice, are « boisterous metaphors » to the writer Charlotte Bronte.
Keywords:
society, solitude, struggle, stratification, injustice, poverty, social class, man, woman
How to Cite this Paper:
Sambou, A. (2023). Class Consciousness in Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor (1857). Atras Journal, 4(2), 108-118.
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