Two Love Stories: Similarities And Differences

Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte are two of the most outstanding women writers in the nineteenth century English literature. Their masterpieces Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are among the most widely read and frequently studied of English novels. They are both imaginative and passionate, oppose to the traditional matrimony and appeal for the true love. And both of their masterpieces are with love as the main theme. At the same time, however, their differences are very clear. It is from the unparalleled natures of theirs and the different influences of the moors that the unparalleled works come into being. This paper tries to use a comparative approach to illustrate the similarities and differences between the two novels, with the emphasis on the family and environmental influences. The striking contrast between the Bronte sisters' personalities and the environment they lived in played, as we shall see, an important part in forming the distinctive features of their works. The paper is an attempt to explore the differences between these two novels, based on the analysis of their similarities, dealing with the causal elements, so as to further probe into the relevance between these two novels.