Two Different Topics

Here's our moment...

This is the time people...

Our moment of reckoning.

I'm stuck on two different topics for the thesis of this paper. Both are very interesting but one looks at the entire book as compared to the latter which dissects one single scene in the novel. My first topic focuses on the scene that Jane first encounters Thornfield. She describes it as "heavenly" and it is beyond anything she has ever experienced. Jane comes from an extremely humble background, where her needs or interests have never been taken into account or cared of in the slightest. Her personal worth has been degraded by all her superiors, having been trapped in the dying Red Room of her uncle and forced to stand on a stool for her peers. She reaches Thornfield and it is literally beyond anything she has ever experienced. The immediate sincerity and niceness given to her by Mrs Fairfax confuses Jane and the beautiful mansion sparkles like nothing Ms Eyre has ever seen. This first scene at Thornfield shows us how bad her personal life has been up to this point and how she has never even experience the act of common courtesy towards her. She is in an entirely new world.

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How the long descriptions of the physical world surrounding Jane give us more insight into her emotions than the actual dialogue and expression of how she is feeling. The crazy unpredictable weather of the night Rochester proposed to her, or the cold, barren, snowy, desolate, dead nature around Thornfield the morning after Bertha Mason is discovered reflects Jane's emotions immediately. Bronte brilliantly allows the world around Jane to show us her feelings and thoughts. These are sometimes much more imperative than any other text in the novel.