Jane Eyre: Emotional Subtext

• Weather: emotional content.
• Rain = new beginning --> meeting Rochester
• Biblical allusion --> baptism
• Temperature: changes a lot
• Colors
• "looks can be deceiving" i.e. Brocklehurst, Mrs. Reed
• Main character = black & grey
• "evil" Blanche Ingram = white
• Black & white: no in-between
• Red: anger @ beginning, love in middle
• Drawings
• self-portrait vs. hypothetical Blanche ----> self-deprecating
• Art
• Bewick --> icy, desolated places
• Portfolio w/ Mr. Rochester
• Music: lengua fraca = common language
• piano
• singing
• Pathos vs. Bathos
• Pathos
• good feelings
• feel to fix = sympathy
• understand = empathy
• Bathos: overdone to such an extent that it is funny
• Phrenology (leads to) eugenics: concept that one race is better than others, proven "scientifically" with phrenology; something should be done to emphasize the superiority
• Mason --> stone mason: builds foundations & walls