Directions Your task in this project is to learn more about Charlotte Brontë's life and work, and to read and evaluate an essay written
by Virginia Woolf about Jane Eyre. To carry it out, you will conduct a webquest, examining content from multiple reliable
Internet sites in order to gather information to address a research question evaluating Virginia Woolfe's critique on the
lasting appeal of Bronte's Jane Eyre. Focus on the following topics as you search:
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• the cultural norms during Brontë's time, especially in regard to women's roles
• Brontë's own personal background and how it may have shaped the development of her novel
• the literary period which influenced Brontë and how she also influenced the literary period
the characteristics of Brontë's novel which were unique, or new, to the time, not only in content, but also in literary
form
• the reception the novel received upon initial publication, as well as how others have received it over the years
• the ideas and experiences that shaped Virginia Woolfe's reading and response to Brontë's novel

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant