I’d like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope you can spend some time with people you love. Thank you for reading my posts, commenting, and liking. You are my greatest incentive. Today, I’ve prepared a special post about Christmas celebrations and symbolism in Jane Eyre. Some of Jane Eyre’s happiest andContinue reading “Christmas in Jane Eyre”
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There was no possibility of taking a walk that (November) day.
November is a dark and ominous month in Jane Eyre’s life. Firstly, she is locked in the red room, as a child, at Gateshead. Secondly, she is lonely at Thornfield Hall, before Rochester’s arrival. Finally she is leading a solitary life in Morton, while her cousin, whom she doesn’t love, proposes to her. Gateshead TheContinue reading “There was no possibility of taking a walk that (November) day.”
Fictional Houses: from Thornfield to Eyre Hall
Throughout literature houses, or buildings where people have converged have become central elements and powerful symbols in the creative process. According to Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space ( La Poétique de l’Espace, 1958), the house becomes the representation of the universe. It can also be examined as the manifestation of the soul throughContinue reading “Fictional Houses: from Thornfield to Eyre Hall”
Rereading Jane Eyre 