Jane Eyre Chpt 11
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- Jane Eyre chpt 11
- “A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play;” pg 111
- Reminds the reader its fictional Bronte is narrating that line
- “I am warming away the numbness and chill contracted by sixteen hours’ exposure to the rawness of an October day” pg 111
- Warming as she leaves Lowood Pathetic Fallacy
- “inexperienced youth” pg 111
- Jane has no experience of the real world
- “At Lowood, indeed, I took that resolution, kept it, and succeeded in pleasing; but with Mrs Reed, I remember my best was always spurned with scorn.” pg 112
- Still looking back with bitterness Anti-Gothic heroine
- Description of Thornfield pg 116 archaic nature
- Typical of the Gothic Genre
- “cheerless ideas of space and solitude” pg 116
- Reflects Bertha in the attic
- “I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer: I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight nose, and small cherry mouth” pg 117
- Jane wishes to have beauty
- Juxtaposes Blanche
- Jane wishes to have beauty
- “but yet quiet and lonely hills"
- Location of Thornfield reflects Rochester
- Location much more spacious
- Juxtaposes Lowood where Jane was trapped
- Location much more spacious
- Location of Thornfield reflects Rochester
- “the old lady seemed to regard his existence as a universally understood face, with which everybody much be acquainted by instinct” pg 118
- Bronte mocking the ideology of the upper class
- “perhaps seven or eight years old - slightly built, with a pale, small-featured face, and a redundancy of hair falling in curls to her waist” pg 119
- Shows how upper class children were trained for adulthood
- “It was a curious laugh for an instant. It began louder” pg 126
- Supernatural
- “A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play;” pg 111
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