To draw on Susan Meyer once more, she states, 'By making these sly, intermittent allusions to non-white races when describing the British aristocracy, Bronte gives the 'dark races' the metaphorical role of representing the presence of oppression in the novel.' ... This assumption of white superiority can be seen most starkly in Bertha. ... Thirdly, they are associated with savage animals; 'wild beast', 'snarling, canine noise' and 'like a tigress'. ...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In one dance a spectator noted that, slaves would gather, and form a ring of singers, they would then utter a kind of melodious chant that gradually increased in strength and in noise until trebles were felt throughout the property. ... Spirituals - Were a genre of religious folk song founded in American black and white musical traditions. Black and white spirituals share many tunes and texts; blacks and whites mingled at camp meetings, and musical influences probably traveled both ways. ...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In stanza 15 he personifies the cracking ice as it "growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!... Life-in-Death is a woman that's described as having skin "as white as leprosyWho thicks man's blood with cold" (3.45). ...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate