Jane Eyre and Twilight: The Effects of the Gothic Romance Genre on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, the Modern Heroine, and Stephenie Meyer’s the Twilight Saga
When people read novels in the new millennium they aren’t reading into whether the book reflects the views of a novel written over 150 years ago. Most books written in the past ten years have reflected to changing nature of the great novels of the past. Yet similar themes have shown up in many novels over the past one hundred and fifty years. Many writers today draw inspiration from novels they read growing up. The characters in their books have many similarities to one or two characters in books from their childhood. Or even the nature of love and marriage has similarities such as meeting and courting significant others. Yet the theme that stands out the most is the struggles that are faced from the point of view of the main female and male characters. The significance of their relationship to one another as well as their struggles towards each other is a major role to the overall story. Char...