Friday, October 5, 2007

Ch. 21

Jane goes to Mrs Reed's deathbed.

  • Here she also finds out that she does actually have a living relative- Mrs Reed was worse than she thought. Jane accepts this though- she no longer needs the love of Mrs Reed like she did when she was a child. Similarly, Jane is no longer intimidated by Eliza and Georgiana.

  • A supernatural theme is played upon at beginning of chapter, with Jane having unlucky dreams. An omen of bad things to come for the reader. Mr Rochester also sees Jane as a supernatural figure throughout the book- a bad omen for him too?

2 comments:

Donald said...

Jane as supernatural. Can you elaborate? An interesting notion.

Megan said...

I meant that Jane is always described by Rochester as being unearthly- he can't quite believe she's real.