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Jane Eyre - College Term Paper

Jane Eyre

In by Charlotte Bronte, good weather is Bronte’s tool to foreshadow positive events or moods and poor weather is the tool to set the tone for negative events or moods. This technique is exercised throughout the entire novel, alerting the readers of any up coming atmosphere.
In the novel, Jane’s mood was, to a degree, determined by the weather mentioned. For example, after Jane was publicly, falsely accused of being a liar by Mr. Brocklehurst, an upcoming positive event was predicted when Jane described her surroundings, “Some heavy clouds swept from the sky by a rising wind, had left the moon bare; and her light streaming in through a window near, shone full both on us and on the ...

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morning at Thornfield. A positive mood was foreshadowed when Jane described the weather as, “The chamber looked such a bright little place to me as the sun shone in between the gay blue chintz window and carpeted floor, so unlike the bare planks and strained plaster of Lowood, that my spirit rose at the view” (90). Thus, this not only foreshadowed the positive mood of Jane, but also the experience she’ll have in the near future living in Thornfield. She will soon discover her husband to be Mr. Rochester and appreciate her companies such as Mrs. Fairfax and Adele who in the first time in her life treats her as an equal. All positive weather described in the novel foreshadowed either a positive mood or event and sometimes both. Bronte was consistent with this use of the weather.
On the other hand, poor weather in the novel was used to foreshadow negative events or moods. In the opening of the novel, when Jane was living in Gateshead, while she was reading an unpleasant visit of ...

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Added: 10/3/2004 05:01:51 AM
Category: Book Reports
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