Thornfield Hall: Lexical fields - Brightness, Mystery - 'snug small room', 'cheerful fire' - warm place, Jane maybe found a haven of joy, bright prospects. 'My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir'.
Imagery - 'A very chill and vault-like aire pervaded the stairs and gallery', 'Cheerless ideas of space and solitude', 'Eerie impression made by that wide hall...' - Cold place with hints of supernatural, loneliness. Theme - supernatural; comes up again as at Gateshead, suggests the rich don't necessarily have the nicer lives, they look good on the outside yet there are troubles and mysteries that lurk underneath. Theme - social standing.
Thornfield mayn't be completely joyful and bright - may be future troubles for Jane to face alone. Foreshadowing. 'I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me - one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils'. (Writers' technique - name of hall itself is foreshadowing - field of hope, yet with thorns'.
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