In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Bronte manipulates literary devices, such as imagery and diction, to convey a tone of constraint to her audience. Bronte’s usage of imagery helps the audience creates a picture of the situation or setting the main character finds herself. Bonte details, “ … the cold winter wind… further outdoor excise was out of the question.” By using dark phrases, like “cold winter wind”, Bronte illustrates the harsh weather that prevents the protagonist from learning the house: thus, the audience receives a sense of imprisonment. Even though, it is later stated that the character was grateful for the status of the weather, the character continues to feel out of place, which contributes to the melancholy tone. In addition
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In the novel Jane Eyre, the author Charlotte Bronte utilizes devices to represent that she feels trapped. Bronte uses diction and imagery to represent her feelings to illustrate that she feels imprisoned.
In the novel "Jane Eyre" the atmosphere is conveyed through the author's use of syntax. Charlotte Bronte description of the surroundings portray the feelings of constraint and imprisonment. Thus, she implements imagery and dialogue to resemble Jane's internal feeling by the use of diction. Notably, Bronte began by describing the day's weather. For example, she conveys an atmosphere of dullness by stating,"... the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so somber and rain so penetrating... outdoor exercise was... out of the question..."
In life, a person can be constrained and imprisoned both physically, and mentally. In the novel Jane Eyre, an orphan girl by the name of Jane experiences both of those methods of constraint and imprisonment. The author communicates this to the reader through the implementation of diction and imagery. In the beginning of the text, the author's employment of diction helps to illustrate how the unfavorable weather confines jane into staying indoors.
Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre incorporates vibrant descriptions of nature and weather, which intertwine literally and metaphorically throughout the novel to reflect the protagonist’s state of mind. Furthermore, Bronte’s meticulous description of everyday objects and experiences provide a world that is both real and tangible to the reader. The novel defies the expectations of social-class, and gender, and transcends various literary genres, while the setting purposely enhances the characters inner feelings and emotions meritoriously, allowing more freedom for commentary, and the expression of taboo topics than solely through the dialogue of the characters.
The first chapter of Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, creates the feeling of constraint and imprisonment that the main character is experiencing. The author conveys this feeling to the readers by utilizing diction and imagery. With these literary elements the reader is able to comprehend the emotions the main character feels. Charlotte Bronte applies imagery to demonstrate how the character is affected by what she sees. In the chapter it states, "...
Brontë, Charlotte, Fritz Eichenberg, and Bruce Rogers. Jane Eyre. New York: Random House, 1943. Print.
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In the novel, Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, Bronte utilizes literary devices to evoke a somber feeling with in the text. The feelings of constraint are produced through the use of imagery and diction. Bronte constantly describes dark settings throughout the novel, as well as using vivid adjectives to evoke a greater sense of darkness. Bronte utilizes imagery when describing a winter afternoon. Bronte states, "...it offers a pale blank of mist and cloud; near, a scene of wet lawn and a storm beat shrub with ceaseless rain sweeping away avidly before a lamentable blast.
Figurative Language in Jane Eyre and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Throughout Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the symbols of fire and water shape the novel and support the novel’s main theme. Jane Eyre continually struggles to find a middle ground between ‘fire’ and ‘water,’ as she is both aggressive and submissive. In Eric Solomon’s critical analysis, “The Symbolism of Fire and Water in Jane Eyre” Solomon accurately describes this struggle. It is important to note that Jane conflicts with authority, defeats the struggle by her inner confidence, and progresses into separation. Although Solomon clearly describes Jane’s struggles in her journey to find an equal balance between ‘fire’ and ‘water,’ other examples highlight crucial moments in the novel, by adding symbolism that enhances the struggles that Jane faces.
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre displays cases of physical and social restriction, along with instances of avant-garde emotional freedom in terms of Jane Eyre’s freedom of choice in leaving Mr Rochester and rejecting St John River’s proposal.
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre emerges with a unique voice in the Victorian period for the work posits itself as a sentimental novel; however, it deliberately becomes unable to fulfill the genre, and then, it creates an altogether divergent novel that demonstrates its superiority by adding depth of structure in narration and character portrayal. Joan D. Peters’ essay, Finding a Voice: Towards a Woman’s Discourse of Dialogue in the Narration of Jane Eyre positions Gerard Genette’s theory of convergence, which is that the movement of the fiction towards a confluence of protagonist and narrator, is limited as the argument does not fully flesh out the parodies that Charlotte Bronte incorporates into her work. I will argue that in the novel