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It is said that art is like a mirror to the soul, a way to see what the artist is feeling deep down in their heart. It is as if their most personal thoughts and ideas are reflected in their work, either consciously or unconsciously. Charlotte Brontë utilizes t ....

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.... and nurturing contact and shunned by humanity. Two excerpts from her stay at Gateshead illustrate this fact, her reading of Bewick's “History of British Birds,” and her punishment for striking Master John, the stay in the red room of Gateshead. In the opening scene, Jane is found perusing a copy of Bewick's “History of British Birds,” concentrating on the descriptions of the certain landscapes in which some of the birds live. Her words paint a mental picture, one that represents her childhood, “Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's b ....