![]() ![]() On Nunnwood-the sole remnant of antique British forest in a region whose lowlands were once all silvan chase, as its highlands were breast-deep heather-slept the shadow of a cloud the distant hills were dappled, the horizon was shaded and tinted like mother-of-pearl silvery blues, soft purples, evanescent greens and rose-shades, all melting into fleeces of white cloud, pure as azury snow, allured the eye as with a remote glimpse of heaven's foundations. The deep valley robed in May raiment on varied meads, some pearled with daisies, and some golden with king-cups… all this young verdure smiled clear in sunlight transparent emerald and amber gleams played over it. As Caroline and Shirley are taking a walk, they stop to admire: Both socially and environmentally, the novel races towards dystopia, particularly for the female sex.īefore drastically altering the landscape of Yorkshire at the end of the story, Bronte intentionally focuses on how beautiful the natural environment is. The land is completely desecrated in favor of creating profit and the two leading ladies of the story lose their identities that they worked so hard to build to marriage. ![]() The novel grapples with the radical transformation of the town of Yorkshire and its people at the hands of industrialization in a way that is undeniably pre dystopian. ![]() Although Shirley by Charlotte Bronte is typically identified as a Victorian romance, it is far more than that. ![]()
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