Tuesday, December 1, 2009
JE #15
“They’ve like nobody to tak’ care on ’em but me. I’m like to look sharpish” (436). Bronte uses dialect through Hannah’s character. Hannah is the only character to have a distinguished dialect throughout the entire novel, excluding the many people speaking French. Almost everyone that Jane comes across is well educated, until she meets Hannah. Bronte uses this dialect, not to debase the importance of Hannah’s character, but to easily reveal that she is in fact not well-educated. In this passage Bronte shows how valuable it is to have a decent education.
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That's a really interesting observation -- not one I would have keyed in upon. What is important about Hannah as a character that helps prove Bronte's position that a decent education is inherently valuable? In what ways is it clear that Bronte sees Hannah as a negative character/flawed individual?
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