Worlds Apart in the Same World: A Study of the Bronte Sisters

Sisters know each other’s biggest dreams and greatest fears. Sisters remain when everyone else has left. Sisters hate each other, cry together, laugh together, and most of all they love. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte were sisters who lived together all of their lives. Most of the time their only companions were each other, and they were close friends. All three sisters wrote and found their strength through expressing their beliefs in their novels. However, even though Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte were close sisters, they had very different worldviews. Each sister had a unique belief about reality, morality, and what is valuable that they expressed through their writing. In spite of the sisters’ shared experiences, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne were women were worlds apart living in the same world.