Jane Eyre, Hamlet And Keats :: essays research papers fc

     To convey a sense of argument, imagery and perspective, authors use various types of language, syntax and vocabulary to give this. An extract from Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, a soliloquy from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare and Ode to Autumn, by John Keats all have a number of impinging similarities between them, as well as a few differences, which leave behind be analysed to show.     Unlike Hamlet and Autumn, the extract from Jane Eyre, doesnt have whatsoever particular argument, but the use of language is similar to that of Keats and to some consequence Hamlet. Jane Eyre is a character existing in a narrative in the first person, as is Hamlet in his soliloquy. This shoots a sense of acknowledgement and realism to the reader, I did not feel the cold, though it froze keenly (Bronte, p143) indicated the narrators feelings and experience. The narration is written in the past tense, in those long time I was young (p143) to add t o the affect of a recollection and to bring the sense of an autobiography.     Jane is not an omniscient narrator, like Hamlet, therefore the reader toilet see things she does not, such as the gloomy significance of the extract and how it is an recitation of her future relationship with Mr Rochester, and Thornfield. The whole of the novel is written in elaborate, heterogeneous sentences, which perhaps is the authors way of demonstrating Janes intelligence and eloquence. The genius of language and it usage is similar to that of Keats. Bronte uses active verbs such as ascent moon and blended clouds (p143) and noise breaking out, and integrates them into the elegant prose to bring a sense of movement to Janes surroundings. An idea of sound is also achieved by the use of onomatopoeic words such as tinkle of the nigh stream and whispering (p143) this brings a sensuous aspect to the prose, something that Keats also manages to achieve in his Ode to Autumn. There is even a small degree of beginning rhyme wave wanderings (p143) something, which Keats also uses.     The imagery in Jane Eyre is plentiful, for instance the moon is personified as female, The rising moon . . . she looked over Hay (p143) the images are conjured up with pictorial descriptions used by Jane, as with Keats. We get the impression that Thornfield is more or less intimidating, we know the hall is grey and battlemented (p143) and that the woods are dreary.