Jane Eyre is very responsive to mature and its moods.

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Nature is used by Charlotte Bronte in Jane Eyre to develop and emphasize Jane’s emotions, thoughts and moods throughout the novel, as well as exaggerating and metaphorically pre-empting the shaping of her story. In Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte uses natural descriptions of weather, light and references to vivid colours linked with nature as a means of echoing and developing Jane Eyre’s moods. Pathetic fallacy is threaded thought the events of Jane’s story in order to echo Jane’s emotions and thoughts, and develop similar attitudes in the reader. “Midsummer shone (…) suns so radiant” this natural description in the opening sentence of chapter XXIII reflects Jane’s happiness and comfort in her situation whilst also revealing her over whelming passion for Mr. Rochester. The use of pathetic fallacy is frequent in this novel and Bronte used it to resonance numerous different emotions or moods at different points of the novel; “the rain still beating continuously (…) wind howling (…) cold as stone.” This an example of pathetic fallacy used earlier on in the novel, when Jane is trapped in the red room as a child. The “continuous rain” echoes Jane’s feelings in the red room of time standing still, the “howling wind”, her desperation to escape, and her lack of warmth demonstrates that Jane neither feels at home or happy in Gateshead Hall. Charlotte Bronte also depicts the wide range of colours which Jane Eyre uses to punctuate her descriptions of nature. Like the pathetic fallacy used by Bronte, the colours present in Jane’s surroundings echo and exaggerate her moods and feelings affected by events in the novel. “Deeply tinted, contrasted well with the sunny hue” this description of nature presents an image in the mind of the reader of very romantic colourings; strong reds crimsons contrasted with golden, yellow hues. These contrasting colours reveal, subconsciously, a strong

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