Abstract:It is analyzed the episode of a child leaving home for school in the novels «David Copperfield» and «Bleak House» by Charles Dickens and «Jane Eyre» by Charlotte Bronte. Studying at a boarding school and leaving home for it was quite a typical episode of life for the Victorians, but for the main characters of C. Dickens’ and Ch. Bronte’s novels the circumstances of leaving home are paradoxical and unusual so much, that it becomes a part of the initiation process. All of them are not happy at home. In fact, bei… Show more
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