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1、TheBronteSistersLifeandWorks苦难与激情的自我写照It’simpossibletospeakofCharlotteBrontewithoutspeakingofherfamily,asThackeraydescribedthem,“thatfamilyofpoetsintheirsolitudeyonderonthegloomyNorthernmoors.”TheBrontesisters”referstoCharlotteBronte,writerofJaneEyre,EmilyBronte,writerofWutheringHeights,andAnneBront
2、e,writerofAgnesGrey.IAfamilyofWritersHowtheBrontesistersbecamewritersisamysterytowesternscholars.Explanationsmightbefoundintheirfamilyoriginaswellastheirsurroundingenvironment.1.FamilyOriginCharlotte(1816-1855),Emily(1818-1848)andAnne(1820-1849)werethedaughtersofapoorclergyman.Theirmotherdiedearly.T
3、heBrontesistersinheritedtheirstrongemotionfromtheirparents.TheirfatherwasanIrishwhowasbornintoapeasantfamilyandbyworkinghardenteredCambridgeandfinallybecameaclergyman.TheirmotherwasofCelticorigin.(memberofthelastgroupofimmigrantstosettleinBritainbeforethecomingofAnglo-Saxons)TheCelticbloodexplainsth
4、eirstrongemotionsandtheirbraveryinthesearchforspiritualindependence.2.SurroundingEnvironmentAnotherfactorwasthemoorland.ExceptforshortsvisitstoBrusselsbyCharlotteandEmilyandtheirbriefstayataboardingschool,thesisterswerepracticallylivinginisolation,inadistantvillagesetinthewildmoorsofYorkshire.Amoori
5、sawildopen,oftenraisedarea,coveredwithheath,roughgrassorlowbushesandisnotfarmedbecauseofbadsoil.Surroundedbymoorlandandsteephills,theplacewascutofffromindustrialism.Lackingamusement,thechildrencouldonlyrunwildonthemoors.Themoorsnurturedtheirimagination.Theyfoundpleasureinthepurpleheather,theblackroc
6、k,thepaletoughgrassandtheuntouchedmoorlandwilderness,wherethestrongwindalwaysblewpowerfullyandfreely.Andfromtheirchildhoodtheywouldreadliteratureandwritechildishstories.TheBronteParsonage,wherethesistersgrewupandwrotethenowfamousnovels.3.LiteraryInfluenceTheylivedatthetimewhenthedominantliterarytren
7、dturnedfromRomanticismtoRealism.Andtheywereinfluencedbyboth.TheywereveryfamiliarwiththeworksoftheRomanticmovementandCharlotteandhisbrotherintheirearlytwentiesevenwroteletterstoWordsworthandSouthey,beg