Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë describes how “flowers peeped out amongst the leaves; Snowdrops, Crocuses, purple Auriculas and golden-eyed Pansies.”

In <em>Jane Eyre</em> (1847) Charlotte Brontë establishes the most romantic horticultural atmosphere possible for Mr Rochest


Though Jane turns to the garden for respite, it is never fully obtained. During the “sweetest hour” of an “Eden-like” midsummer’s eve, she cannot prevent the scent of Rochester’s cigar smoke polluting the “sweet-briar and southern-wood, jasmine, pink and rose” perfuming the air.


Jane Eyre

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