“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte was born in Yorkshire, England on April 21, 1816. Because of the death of Charlotte’s mother her aunt helped to raise his children – three of sisters—Maria, Elizabeth, and Emily. At a young age, the children created a fictional world they named Angria, and their many stories, poems, and plays were early predictors of shared writing talent that eventually led Emily, Anne, and Charlotte to careers as novelists. As adults, Charlotte suggested that she, Anne, and Emily collaborate on a book of poems. The three sisters published under male pseudonyms: Charlotte’s was Currer Bell, while Emily and Anne wrote as Ellis and Acton Bell, respectively. When the poetry volume received little public notice, the sisters decided to work on separate novels but retained the same pseudonyms. Anne and Emily produced their masterpieces in 1847, but Charlotte’s first book, The Professor, never found a willing publisher during her lifetime. Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre (1849) later. The book, a critique of Victorian assumptions about gender and social class, became one of the most successful novels of its era, both critically and commercially.
“Jane Eyre” draws the picture of people and scenes of the romantic style. The style is extraordinary powerful and expresses the meaning accurately. Bronte’s style is characterized by a command of language, spontaneity, simplicity. The main feature of the extract under analysis is its statics – it’s greatly demonstrated here – the description of landscape where the time almost stops, no event is happening. The main function is to create the atmosphere and express emotions, to reveal the true feelings of characters – it’s brightly shown on the example of the extract.
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'Emily Jane Bronte was born at Thornton in Yorkshire on 30 July 1818, the fifth of six children of Patrick and Maria Bronte (nee Branwell). Two years later, her father was appointed perpetual curate of Haworth, a small, isolated hill village surrounded by moors. Her mother died shortly after her third birthday and she and her sisters and brother were brought up by their aunt, ElizabethBranwell. ...
At the very beginning of the extract the author brings the reader to the description of the landscape images where we meet the major character, Jane Eyre, going to Thornfield in the evening. It is clearly seen that that the events are presented through the perception of the heroine herself. The narration starts from the description of her way, here the author uses parallelism and asyndeton “the ground was hard, the air was still, my road was lonely” to reveal the inner feelings of the heroine, to indicate her tension, moreover, short similar sentences are used to increase the rhythm of her steps. Then the sentences become more extended in order to share the character’s emotions with the reader. The charm of night is portrayed by numerous epithets and metaphors: “low gliding and pale-beaming sun”, “coral treasures in hips”, “leafless repose”; similies: bushes as still as stones, brown birds looked like russet leaves. All these stylistic devices create the atmosphere of calmness and harmony around the heroine. By use the inversion “above me sat the rising moon” the author draws reader’s attention to to the description of the moon, comparing its colour with cloud’s (simile – “pale as a cloud”), moreover he endows it with human capacities (personification – “she looked over Hay”, “sat the rising moon”).
That creates an effect of the moon being Jane’s attendant at night. Also, the author brightly depicts living Hay by using personification too – “its thin murmurs of life”, “becks threading their passes”. The description of the living nature creates an impression of being involved in the happening events and makes the reader feel all the heroine’s emotions. But suddenly the author breaks these calmness and silence by the use of onomatopoeia, which creates the sounds of that “rude noise” – “tramp, a metallic clatter, mass of crag, the rough boles of a great oak, drawn in dark, strong”. But then the “rude noise” disappears in “azure hill”, “sunny horizon”, “clouds where tint melts into tint”. With a help of onomatopoeia used in the last part we clearly imagine the scene around, it makes us able to hear the sound of nature.
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Literary Essay: "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" At times, in order for one to be happy, one may sometimes base and compare their happiness on the misfortunes of others. The Child, in the story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula K. Leguin, is used as a significant symbol to effectively create emotional responses in the readers mind, and is also used to criticise the members of ...
The author’s idea is clearly seen to the reader thanks to all stylistic devices used in the extract. Reading this extract the reader feels himself near the main character, experiencing the same emotions and feelings, enjoying the beauty of nature. Every little thing around becomes important in the description, no item can escape from reader’s attention. Here the time stops and reader has a chance to think over some things in surrounding silence, calmness and harmony.