Tuesday, September 9, 2014

LITERATURE ANALYSIS #1

1) The plot of the story is that Jane Eyre, an orphan, lives with her evil aunt and her cousin who abuses her. One day she gets locked in a room for being troublesome and she faints because she believes it's haunted. A doctor sees her and requests that she be sent to school. The request is approved and jane is sent to a private school but the conditions there are worse. Her only friend ends up dying of a disease which puts the teachers in a sort of spotlight and they are fired. Jane spends a couple more years there but with better conditions thanks to the new staff. Once she leaves she becomes and governess and ends up falling in love with the man of the house. He ends up proposing to jane and she accepts but later finds out that he already has a wife, so they do not say their vows. His wife is terribly mentally sick and so jane runs away heartbroken. She ends up meeting some long lost cousins and learns that her uncle left her his fortune. Her cousin, St. John, proposes to Jane but she denies because she still loves Mr. Rochester. She runs back to him and finds that his crazy wife burned the house down and lost her life, but Rochester got everyone out but lost his sight and a hand. They get married and live happily ever after ;)
2) I can't recognize an obvious theme but I would say something a long the lines of love, belonging somewhere and hierarchy. Jane was not shown much love from family, because she didn't have one, and because she didn't belong. Which ties all three together. She didn't belong anywhere because she was poor. If you were poor, you were unimportant. Which was a huge struggle for Mr. Rochester because Jane didn't have any money and he was a very wealthy and popular man.
3) The authors tone was very affectionate. She created jane to be a loving girl even though she didn't have many reasons to love. She was insecure but other characters seemed to be able to bring her confidence back up. She knew she didn't belong because she recognized that the things she did was very different from the way her cousins would act. “Jane Eyre 
"I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.”  “I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.”  “He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.” 
4)
A) Symbolism- The Red Room: Jane was traumatized in it as a child. It represented a "womb" being born again but coming out with a new attitude.  
B) Setting- England is already a very droopy place. It set the atmosphere for having pity for Jane. 
C) Mood- The mood was set through imagery and dialogue. You would be able to tell what people were thinking or feeling through their dialogue. 
D) Allusions- There were many references to history in this book. Many being biblical. 
E) Antithesis- The thesis was love. Having someone love you for you were, not for social standing and have much money you had. Jane wanted that but always denied herself that pleasure of believing Rochester could actually love her. She tries to push him away and fortunately it doesn't work. 
F) Repetition- The author repeats fire and ice many times throughout the book. Fire and ice were also symbols for sexual appetites and getting away. 
G) Foreshadowing- The tree being split in half foreshadowed Rochester being confused about his relationship with Jane. When Bertha tore the wedding veil, it foretold that the wedding would not happen. 
H) Imagery- She used a lot of descriptive words to create a setting, most of the time it had to do with nature. The weather would change depending on the emotions of the moment. 
I) Irony- The whole love story was ironic, Jane was an orphan who had no money and ended up falling in love with a wealthy man. Then when Rochester 
lost everything, Jane came back with roughly 12,000 pounds. 
J) Tragedy- Jane was completely in love with Rochester and ended up not being able to marry him because he was already married and she ran away. She made that fatal mistake and realized it, then came running back to find the house 
burnt down and Rochester blind, missing a hand. 
5) There was mainly direct characterization in this book because Jane was very opinionated. Whenever she talked about someone, she always gave you the full story about them. Like with her "brother" or cousin, she outright said he was a 
bully. Indirect was more expressed with dialogue. Jane never talked about 
herself but other people would express her as plain or determined. She showed herself smart and strong with her becoming a governess from such an awful background. 
6) The author was very straightforward with janes emotions. You always knew
what she felt, when she was feeling and how she was feeling it. She did a good
job with syntax and diction in dialogue. Jane would use stronger words when she was angry, longer words when she was upset, and simple kind words while she was talking to friends or children.
7) I would say Jane was both. She knew what she always wanted ever since she was little and she was hopeful she would find it. So in the end when she did,
she realized there was some changes she needed to make. Like faith that
Rochester actually could love her even if she had no money and that he wouldn't leave her.
8) I wouldn't say like I met a character because she reminded me of myself. I'm very opinionated with people. I can see right through them. I get that from my
mom and grandma. But needing to have faith and trust in someone that they truly love you for you and that they don't care about certain aspects of your life that you may find troublesome. 

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