Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
"and was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No, reader. Gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire."
Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
"I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gaped ghastly … their great boughs on each side were dead, and next winter’s tempests would be sure to fell one or both to earth: as yet, however, they might be said to form one tree—a ruin, but an entire ruin."
Religion: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte
"He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol."
Religion: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte
"So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality."
Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
"I saw only the hedge and a pollard willow before me, rising up still and straight to meet the moonbeams."
Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
"strange energy was in his voice, strange fire in his look"
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