Jane Eyre Chpt 20
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- Jane Eyre chpt 20
- The weather at the start of the chapter juxtaposes the evening
- Gothic atmosphere at the start of the chapter
- “It came out of the third story; for it passed overhead. And overhead - yes, in the room just above my chamber - ceiling” Page 238
- Bertha’s prison is above Jane’s room
- Emphasises how Bertha is Jane’s alter ego
- Suggests if Jane was to stay with Rochester she would go mad as well
- “I heard thence a snarling, snatching sound, almost like a dog quarrelling” Page 241
- Simile
- Alliteration
- Imagery
- Anthropomorphism
- “wild beast or the fiend” page 243
- Gothic Language/Imagery
- The description of the flowers outside on pg 249 suggest a sense of freedom and contradict what’s happening inside Thornfield
- Gothic weather
- “He gathered a half-blowed rose, the first on the bush, and offered it to me.” page 249
- Connotations of Beauty and the Beast
- Represents Rochester’s damaged past - he’s not perfect
- Page 250 Rochester explains why Mr Mason must be kept in the dark about Thornfield
- Foreshadows Mason stopping the wedding
- “‘I like to serve you, sir and to obey you in all that is right.’” page 250
- Jane stays true to her morals and principles, very gothic heroine like
- “The west wind whispered in the ivy round me; but no gentle Ariel borrowed its breath as a medium of speech: the birds sang in the tree tops; but their song, how ever sweet, was inarticulate
- Alliteration
- Personification
- “‘ A strapper - a real strapped, Jane: big, brown and buxom; with hair just such as the ladies of Carthage” page 253
- Big and shapely
- Describes Betha as well as Blance trying to marry Rochester just like Bertha
- Foreshadows Mason stopping the wedding
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