ARTHIST 2DF3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spiritualism, Androgyny, Omen
10 Dec 2014
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Outline responses to these questions to prepare yourself for the discussion" component of the internal assessment: discuss the fire and ice imagery in the novel. Images of ice and cold, often appearing in association with barren landscapes or seascapes, symbolize emotional desolation, loneliness, or even death. The death-white realms of the arctic that bewick describes in his history of. British birds parallel jane"s physical and spiritual isolation at gateshead (chapter 1). Lowood"s freezing temperatures for example, the frozen pitchers of water that greet the girls each morning mirror jane"s sense of psychological exile. Finally, at moor house, st. john"s frigidity and stiffness are established through comparisons with ice and cold rock. Jane writes: by degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind. I fell under a freezing spell (chapter 34). When st. john proposes marriage to jane, she concludes that [a]s his curate, his comrade, all would be right.
