Brontë’s The Professor: An Educational Perspective

Abstract

Charlotte Brontë wrote The Professor as a result for her stay at Brussels. She tries to immortalize her experience as a student there at a girls’ school. And due to the fact that the most part is about schooling and students, I intend to explore this aspect from an experienced teacher’s perspective. The paper aims to analyse and address the narrative and focus on the educational elements that Brontë hints at. The outcome of this analysis shows that teachers are human and that they share most of the traits that one encounters in schools. Despite the prestige of their position, teachers tend to act in ways that are dictated by their ideologies, tendencies, and sense of belonging, which they strive to instil in their students.