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Jane Eyre: A Stylistic Analysis of The Story
Jane Eyre: A Stylistic Analysis of The Story
JANE EYRE
By: Charlotte Bronte
INTRODUCTION
Born in 1816, the eldest and most famous of the Bronte
children, charlotte was a poet and novelist best known for
her novel Jane Eyre (1847).Charlotte went to the clergy
daughters' school in 1824 with her three sisters, Emily,
Maria and Elizabeth. She blamed the school's deplorable
conditions on the deaths of her two older sisters and her own
poor state of health. Charlotte used her school as the basis
for the Lowood school in Jane Eyre. She served as the
motherly friend to her younger sisters, encouraging their
literary talents and willingness to publish their work. After
withdrawing his surviving children from boarding school,
their father schooled them at home, where they were
confined to a quiet room most of the day, so as not to disturb
their father's work. The Bronte children created their own
literary fictional worlds, which inspired their respective
literary careers.
PHONOLOGY
-It tells us what sounds are in a language, how they do and can combine into
words, and explains why certain phonetic features are important to identifying a
word.
<e> sound
“And then my mind made its first earnest effort to
comprehend what had been infused into it concerning heaven
and hell; and for the first time it recoiled, baffled; and for the
first time glancing behind, on each side, and before it, it saw
all round an unfathomed gulf”.
<e> sound
“I went to my window, opened it, and looked out. There were
the two wings of the building; there was the garden; there
were the skirts of Lowood; there was the hilly horizon. My
eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the
blue peaks; it was those I longed to surmount; all within their
boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile
limits”.
<o> sound
Phonology is largely concerned with the
contrastive sounds of a language.
Example:
<b> and <i> are contrastive
Examples:
Prefixes:
Indeed, profound, resolve, and
unless
Suffixes:
painful, inferiority, lighter, and
suggestion
SEMANTICS
-determine our reading comprehension, how we
understand others, and even what decisions we make as
a result of our interpretations.
“The close of the afternoon service was a hilly road, where the
bitter winter wind, blowing over a range of snowy summits to
the north, almost flayed the skin from our faces”.
A simile is a direct comparison using like or as.
“I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged like a Turk;
and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double
retirement”. “All John Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sisters’ proud indifference, all
his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like
a dark deposit in a turbid well”. “I heard the rain still beating continuously on the
staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew by
degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank”.
1. My seat, to which Bessie and the bitter miss abbot had left me
riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney -piece; the bed
rose before me; to my right hand there was the high, dark
wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its
panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking -glass
between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room.
Ottoman
; (Merriam Webster dictionary) a low piece of furniture that has soft
top and that you can put your feet on when you are sitting
;introduced into Europe in the late 18th century from Turkey, where,
piled with cushions, it was the central piece of domestic seating.
2. .... nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and
rosebuds,
convolvuli ; (finedictionary.com) a twining plant with trumpet-shaped flowers, some
kinds of which (such as bindweed) are invasive weeds, while others, especially
morning glories, are cultivated for their bright flowers.
sotto voce