Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2016

Lucy’s Ambition for Stable, Content and Meaningful Life in Villette

Dr. P. Ramachandra Rao

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 As a revolting, unpleasant, disrupted and restricted novel; Charlotte Bronte’s Villette has contradictory responses. Villette is related to the experiences of an English girl Lucy. Both peacefulness and disturbance are seen in her life. As a teacher Lucy leads solitary life at Madam Beck’s establishment in Villette. Later she realises that she is one of the sufferers in the plan of God. Nobody avoids her dreamy and unpleasant mood. She accepts her condition rather than solution from others. In this way she wants herself to be done. She is a woman of self- reliant. She is good at her work. She has the life of thought and the life of reality. To overcome her grief she wants to bury a jar filled with letters at the root of a tree. As a companion of an old lady, a nursery governess and a school teacher she feels herself she is a rising character. After betrothing M. Paul Emanuel she has established her own school. She is waiting for M. Paul as he has left the country for a period of three years. After coming M. Paul she was able to lead joyful life for a while. After seeing some differences in their life she wants to lead solitary life. It indicates the strength of will would overcome any kind of obstacle. The differences of social status prevent the possibility of the marriage between Lucy and Dr. John. Lucy’s independence may be the reason for the death of M. Paul. Charlotte Bronte has succeeded in inging out the conflicts between self-reliance and independence for women to transform into a conflict of religious ideology. There is neither M. Paul’s domestic help nor Lucy’s adjustment. Finally Lucy has decided to lead independent life which is stable and meaningful life to her.

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Dr.P.Ramachandra Rao Lucy¥s Ambition for Stable, Content and Meaningful Life in Villette Global Journal For Research Analysis, Vol.5, Issue : 6 JUNE 2016

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