Tuesday, December 1, 2009
JE #13
“A Christmas frost had come at midsummer: a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hay-field and corn-field lay a frozen shroud” (383). Through this one passage Bronte creates a vivid image of frigidness and death in the reader’s mind. The reader is submerged into Jane’s concealed thoughts and exact feelings at this precise moment where she feels abandoned. She states that the cold of winter instantly shrouded the merriment and excitement of summer--her marriage to her beloved Mr. Rochester.
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take a look at your first two sentences -- how can each get that much more specific? "creates a vivid image" -- a vivid image of . . . ? "Jane's thoughts" -- how might you characterize/describe those thoughts?
ReplyDeleteI like the connection made here between the seasons, the weather, and her feeling.