Essay Archive - Nature and Its Elements in Jane Eyre
Nature and Its Elements in Jane Eyre
The passage I have chosen to do the close critical reading on is from Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte. This passage is part of vol. II chapter 10 and is as follows:
"It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through space. Descending the laurel-walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut tree; it stood up, black and riven: the trunk, split down the center, gaped ghastly. The cloven halves were not broken from each other, for the firm b....
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