{"product_id":"a-bronte-bestiary-von-caryl-casson","title":"A Brontë Bestiary","description":"\u003cp\u003eContrary to the enduring myth that the Brontë sisters led lives of isolation, they were in fact acutely aware of contemporary events.  These included important developments in human and animal welfare.  In their three greatest works, each sister uses animals to comment on the morality of her characters. In Agnes  Grey, the treatment of animals is a reliable compass  to the devout religiosity and uncomplicated morality  of good people.  Although clearly a lover of  animals, Anne Brontë shows her characters''  animalistic tendencies and associations in a negative  light. Charlotte Brontë''s Jane Eyre uses animals in  a more complex way. In the novel, man''s similarity  to animals is not portrayed as necessarily bad, but  it is each main character''s ability, or lack  thereof, to master his animal instincts that acts as  an indicator of morality. Meanwhile, in Wuthering  Heights the barriers between man and animal break  down, allowing Emily Brontë to call into question  polite society''s belief in its own superiority to  other life on earth, be it human or animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783838351056\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Moral Function of Animals in Agnes Grey, Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783838351056","offer_id":39499070996573,"sku":"9783838351056","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/2ada11bb-1a69-46ec-8fdc-90ce16e86d1c.jpg?v=1759211669","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/a-bronte-bestiary-von-caryl-casson","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}