Jane Eyre: Foreshadowing - PowerPoint Presentation

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Jane Eyre:

Foreshadowing

William Li

Camryn Adamson

Gabriel Roden

Emilly Frausto

Natalia Rivera

Tyler

CutshawSlide2

What This Means

Foreshadowing

is where the writer gives

a hint of what is to come later in the

story, and helps the reader develop expectations about the coming events in a story.

Breaking it down: our prompt asks us to identify three things – SpeakerOccasion

How it ForeshadowsSlide3

Examples

“ ‘How do you like Thornfield?’ she asked. I told her I liked it very much.

‘Yes,’ she said, ‘it is a pretty place; but I fear it will be getting out of order…’ ” (91).

Similar to her previous residences, the name of her new home, Thornfield, foreshadows another rough patch ahead for Jane (almost like how a field of thorns would be…). Slide4

Examples

“ ‘…it is my wish; don’t neglect it…Good-night, my ––’ He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me” (170).

Along with the other hints sprinkled through the novel, this evening exchange in particular made evident the affection Rochester harbored for Jane. Thus, it didn’t come as much of a surprise when he later confessed his love to her and asked for marriage.Slide5

In Context

Charlotte Bronte uses foreshadowing throughout the entire novel to foresee Jane’s emotional development and the events of her relationships, especially with Mr. Rochester. For instance, the night Rochester proposes to Jane, “the great horse-chestnut at the bottom of the orchard had been struck by lightning in the middle of the night, and half of it split away” foreshadows how their relationship will be split apart because part of Rochester’s mysterious past will be revealed to Jane (244). Slide6

Back to the Prompt

Quote A: “Before I left my bed in the morning,

little Adele came running to tell me that the

great horse chestnut at the bottom of the

orchard had been struck by lightning in the night

, and half of it split away.” (Vol. II 257)The Speaker is Jane Eyre.

This happened during a violent thunderstorm during the night, a day after Jane had gotten engaged to Rochester by that tree.Slide7

Back to the Prompt

Quote B: “The cards of address alone remained to nail on: they lay, four little squares, on the drawer. Mr. Rochester had himself written the direction.

… I could not persuade myself to affix them, or to have them affixed. Mrs. Rochester! She did not exist; she would not be born till to-morrow, some time after eight o’clock A. M. …” (Vol. II 275)

The speaker in this passage is Jane.

This passage takes place the night before Jane and Rochester’s wedding. Jane is in her chamber, thinking to herself after having finished packing her trunks.The commonality between this passage and the others is their focus on the relationship between Jane and Rochester. Through Jane’s apprehension to accept the identity of “Mrs. Rochester,” this passage foreshadows the fact that Jane and Rochester do not actually get married the following day, making “Mrs. Rochester” not exist at all by the next day.Slide8

Back to the Prompt

Quote C: “ ‘Jane! Jane! Jane!’ ”

The Speaker is Edward Rochester.

In Chapter 35, Jane had reluctantly accepted St. John’s proposal when she thinks she hears Rochester’s voice call to her from outside the house.

The quote is foreshadowing the events in Chapter 37, when Jane and Rochester are reunited, and its revealed that Rochester had been calling out to Jane from his bedroom in anguish.Slide9

Back to the Prompt

Quote D: “ ‘Did you speak these words aloud?’ ”

The speaker is Jane Eyre.

Quote E:

“I did… if any listener had heard me, he would have thought me mad, I pronounced

them with frantic energy.” (Vol. III 447)

The speaker is Rochester (it is a conversation between Rochester and Jane) Jane is asking Rochester if he really shouted her name the night she heard him in her head that made her come looking for him

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The passages

foreshadow the supernatural events that

cause Jane

and Rochester to split and then come back together

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Literary Devices

Foreshadowing – The use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur. Foreshadowing and presentiment are the focus of the topic, making foreshadowing a naturally important literary device.

Ex: “But joy soon effaced every other feeling; and loud as the wind blew, near and deep as the thunder crashed, fierce and frequent as the lightning gleamed, cataract-like as the rain fell during a storm of two hours’ duration, I experienced no fear and little awe.” (Vol. II 488)Slide11

Literary Devices

Imagery – The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. Imagery can be associated with emotions or events and have different connotations, which can be used to foreshadow future events.

Ex: “A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the

centre

; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany.” (Vol. I 19)Slide12

Literary Devices

Pathetic Fallacy – A type of personification, in which inanimate aspects of nature, such as the landscape or the weather, are represented as having human qualities or feelings. Pathetic fallacies are often used to foreshadow future developments, which relates to the topic, which focuses on foreshadowing and presentiment.

Ex: “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner … the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so

sombre

, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.” (Vol. I 1)Slide13

Significant Moment: Jane’s Nightmare

In Chapter 25, Jane recounts her strange dream about chasing Rochester through the ruins of Thornfield while holding an infant in her arms. She then wakes and sees a large, mad looking woman rummaging through her closet, and tearing up her wedding veil.

This is an important event in the novel, as Jane is just about to be wed and should be happy and content, yet her dreams and visions seem to mirror her doubts and foreshadow terrible things to come (more specifically, the reveal of Rochester’s current wife and the eventual destruction of Thornfield).Slide14

Significant Moment: Inheritance

In Chapter 33, Jane is told by St. John (after finding out her true identity) that her uncle John Eyre had left her a large sum of money, about 20,000 pounds, and St. John, Mary, and Diana are all revealed to be nephews and nieces of John Eyre, making them cousins of Jane

This is a very significant point in the book, as Jane finally could be considered a wealthy, independent woman. She has not only the money, but also a new found family to call her own, as for the most of the book she had been lonely, with no real family to speak of. Her uncle’s eventual presence in Jane's life has been foreshadowed over the course of the book.Slide15

AP Prompt

Palestinian American literary theorist and cultural critic, Edward Said has written that “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Yet Said has also said that exile can become a “potent even enriching” experience. Select a character from the novel who experiences such a rift and becomes cut off from “home,” whether that home is the character’s birthplace, family, homeland, or other special place. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the character’s experience with exile is both alienating and enriching and how this experience illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole

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In Jane Eyre, after getting in a fight with her cousin inside of her home, Jane is exiled from her family. Even before the altercation, Jane is alienated from her family because after her uncle died, her aunt wanted nothing to do with Jane. This alienation continues with her fellow classmates once she is sent away from

Gateshead to Lowood

. This exclusion then becomes enriching due to the fact that it enhances Jane’s individuality and makes her have more of a voice. However, the primary tone after Jane gets exiled is gloomy, depressing and suspenseful foreshadowing how Jane will be treated by others everywhere she goes throughout the rest of the novel. Slide16

Citations

“Bamboo Balance.” WallpaperCave, wallpapercave.com/green-bamboo-wallpaper

.Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre: Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates

. Bantam Books, 1987.Chapter 25 pgs

268 -270Chapter 33, pgs 360 - 369

Chapter 35, pg 401Chapter 37, pg

428“Foreshadowing.” 

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