Social Realism in Charlotte Bronte's The Professor
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Charlotte Bronte'sThe Professorvigorously stands as an outstanding novel
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unfolding the socio-economic situation of the Victorian society. This work basically
focuses on the pathetic condition of oppressed class people inEngland. It reflects the
tussle between the upper class and lower class people in their attempts to raise their
socio-economic status. To show the social reality, the novelist has created above
mentioned two sets of characters based on the socio-economic condition. The central
characters William and Frances Henry are working as labourers under capitalist mode
of society. Wherever they go they cannot be free form the claws of bourgeois that
make their life deplorable and poverty. The whole situation of human degradation has
been portrayed as an inevitable consequence of private accumulation of capital,
overwhelming gulf between poor and rich. Edward, Mr. Hunsden, M. Pelet, Zoraide
Reuter belong to upper class of people. They present their cruel behaviour with the
workers in their factory, private schools etc. William moves from one after another
job for the hope of getting a respectable social economic status.