Jane Eyre Rhetorical Analysis

I remember first reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte in ninth grade. I thought it was a wonderful love story between a smart, ambitious girl and a wealthy, conceited, handsome man. Now, as I go back and read the story again, I find more of what Bronte was trying to convey. She uses many different literary devices to enhance her work and aid in understanding such as diction, imagery, tone, and characterization.

Charlotte Bronte uses diction from the eighteen hundreds to better immerse the reader in the setting, as well as to better accentuate the beautiful language. "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones”(492). This quote gives insight on Jane’s personal beliefs and opens her mind to the reader just a little more. Despite the story being ultimately described as a love story, I feel as though there is underlying inspiration to it. Bronte seemed to incorporate ambition and strength into her work. “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give”(289).

Jane Eyre shows that if a person works hard, and chooses to follow their heart, everything will work out in the end. I would definitely recommend others to read Jane Eyre, if not to inspire and intrigue, for a good love story if anything