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Analyze Jane's character in Chapter 36 and describe the main technique Bronte employs in the chapter for characterization.

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Posted by hip1980vn on Friday June 12, 2009 at 3:03 AM and tagged with analysis, character, jane.

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  1. scarletpimpernel Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

    Jane's character in Chapter 36 is a mature, more independent, and determined woman than she was when she first arrived at Thornfield.  She has finished her figurative journey of self-discovery at this point in the novel and embarks on a literal journey back to Thornfield to address the premonitions that she now attends to rather than squelching them.

    To illustrate this major change in Jane's once timid character, Bronte relies mainly upon stream-of-consciousness writing.  While the whole novel is told in first person, this chapter gives the reader more of a glimpse into Jane's thought process. The reader sees her inner conflict through several longer passages that are Jane's conversations with herself. For example, at the beginning of the chapter when St. John takes off, Jane thinks,

    "My spirit . . . is willing to do what is right" (423)

    and she continues to think about what choices lie ahead of her. Later when she views Thornfield again after several years, she lapses into another soliloquy (in her mind) about her feelings toward Rochester and the action she is about to take (426).  This technique allows Bronte to make Jane's character more proactive than she has been before to the reader.

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    Posted by scarletpimpernel on Friday June 19, 2009 at 1:37 PM