Core Ideas And Themes In Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre

Introduction of core ideas and themes in chapters 2 and 3 of Jane Eyre Of the various themes attributed to and found in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, many are introduced within the first chapters, providing a base to be mirrored, re-used and developed later on. As a recurring element of the Gothic genre, the supernatural and its association with the human mind are a crucial part of the novel’s atmosphere, and act as a constant ominous presence in Jane’s life, starting with her early reading materials and, more significantly, with the red room scene. Jane Eyre is also qualified as a bildungsroman, following an individual and their evolution from childhood to adulthood, and the first part of the book provide, through its description of†¦show more content†¦Jane’s claustrophobic fear of the red room is increased by the fact that she cannot leave it. When she realizes that the door is locked, the room seems to take a whole different dimension, changing shape as her fear grows. When she returns to her place and looks in t he mirror, she remarks: All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie’s evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travellers. The realization of her confinement seems to be the trigger of Jane’s fear of the supernatural. Despite the already heavy atmosphere of the room, she had only mentioned concrete, physical and factual things up to this point. This suggests that her mental distress may be the cause of her sudden dread of ghosts and other creatures. Her thoughts spiral out of reason until she convinces herself that Mrs. Reed’s bad treatment of her is going to anger Mr. Reed’s spirit, causing him to come back to haunt them all. It seems even Jane is somewhat aware that her emotions are causing these thoughts, and might make the situation worse,Show MoreRelatedTextual Reading/ Literary Analysis on Dracula1720 Words   |  7 Pagesthere is a hero that is struggling against an inescapable fate. Bram Stoker uses gothic elements such as isolated settings, gloom and doom, and secret passages in Dracula in which portray it to be an excellent gothic genre in relations to Jane Eyre, a novel b y Charlotte Bronte. Stoker uses isolated settings to perpetuate fear of the unknown. Just like telling myths, stories, and grim tales, inside of each kind, there are always those spooky, mysterious, and petrifying â€Å"things† that makes everyone goRead MoreStructuralism and Interpretation Ernest Hemingways Cat in Ther Ain9284 Words   |  38 Pagesg., - this enterprise has been Northrop Frye (1957) and Frank Kermode (1966) almost exclusively dominated by European scholars - Propp, Bremond, Greimas, Levi-Strauss, Todorov and Barthes, among others. Crucial to this tradition of enquiry are the ideas of function and transformation. In the theory of Greimas for instance, all narrative consists essentially of the transfer of an object or value from one actant to another. An actant performs a certain function in the story which may be classified as