Villette - Part II (Esprios Classics)

Brontë's third novel the last published in her lifetime was Villette which appeared in 1853. Its main themes include isolation how such a condition can be borneand the internal conflict brought about by social repression of individual desire. Its main character Lucy Snowe travels abroad to teach in a boarding school in the fictional town of Villette where she encounters a culture and religion different from her own and falls in love with a man (Paul Emanuel) whom she cannot marry. Her experiences result in a breakdown but eventually she achieves independence and fulfilment through running her own school. A substantial amount of the novel's dialogue is in the French language. Villette marked Brontë's return to writing from a first-person perspective (that of Lucy Snowe) the technique she had used in Jane Eyre.