As I made my set of useful quotations from Jane Eyre, I also took note of
some of the literary elements, such as:
Symbolism:
“I…deluged the bed and its occupant, flew back to my own room, brought my own
water-jug, baptized the couch afresh, and by God’s aid, succeeded in
extinguishing the flames which were devouring it” (127). This is symbolic of baptism. Rochester is saved from the fires of
Hell. It also prefigures the burning of
Thornfield, symbolic of his baptism by fire.
Foreshadowing: “It
has seemed to me more than once when I have been in a doze, that my dear
husband, who died fifteen years since, has come in and sat down beside me; and
that I have even heard him call me by my name, Alice, as he used to do. Now, can you tell me whether it is actually
true that Mr. Rochester has asked you to marry him?” (225). Jane and Rochester’s marriage is cut short
because it is made known that he already has a wife whom he married fifteen
years ago. She emerges, as if
from the dead, out of the third-story attic.
Allusion: “No; you shall tear yourself away, none
shall help you: you shall, yourself, pluck out your right eye: yourself cut off
your right hand: your heart shall be the victim; and you, the priest, to
transfix it” (254). The reference
is to Jesus’ redefinition of the Old Testament concept of adultery (Matthew
5:27-32).
I really like those. Were they able to help with your paper at all?
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