How does Charlotte Brounte Create Sympathy For Jane In The First Two

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How does Charlotte Brounte Create Sympathy For Jane In The First Two

Chapters Of The Novel?

Jane Eyre is a fictional autobiography which was written in 1848. It

is about a young girl who is abused and tortured by her aunt and

cousins, (the people she lives with).

There are many ways that Charlotte Brounte creates sympathy for Jane

in the first two chapters. However the four main ways are: the

setting, the language used, the structure of the chapters and finally

the social content.

In the first chapter, the setting is in a room where Jane is reading a

book. The writer uses pathetic fallacy in this chapter to describe

the weather as well as how Jane is feeling. ‘Chilly afternoons’

describes the weather which was then followed by ‘dreadful to me’;

this shows the way Jane was felling. The writer firstly describes the

weather and then describes and then describes the link to how Jane is

feeling. (The cold walks that are described in this chapter are also

tied to the cold treatment Jane gets). This is effective because it

gives the reader the image of a dull, cold da...

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