Not exactly. Did anyone else find the ending kind of awkward? There were plenty of places to end the chapter. There was the moment Jane accepted Rochester, when they left the garden place, or when the went inside and kissed, yet Bronte Chooses to to end the chapter with a conversation Adele makes with Jane. Why is that?
Honestly, I'd usually do a really long, drawn-out commentary on it, but I've already done my two comments and I kind of want to just see other people react to that, so, if that could be a part of conversation, I would appreciate it.
I agree with Alex, the last chapter for this reading was not only awkward, but completely random. I realized that Rochester brought up marrying Blanche in order to arouse Jane’s jealousy in the gardens, but it still seemed so completely random in this chapter when Rochester proposed and then switched from Blanche to Jane. Obviously I was excited because I was hoping eventually this would happen :) but when reading, the timing of the proposal definitely threw me off. As my motif is weather and I have been following that, I agree with the posts on the other question by Yeji and Song; I think it is really interesting that there is a storm that breaks right after Jane accepts Rochester's proposal, AND that the tree they sat under was struck by lightening and split in half. This seems to really stick out to me and makes me suspicious of what is to follow/ what this storm is possibly foreshadowing in the future. As the storms and dark weather are not exactly the "best" kind of weather one could hope for when getting engaged, it seems to me that something is not quite happy and right with the marriage, and thus I wonder what could happen in the future. Back to Alex's comment about the conversation with Adele though, I think it was a great spot for Bronte to stop. The brief conversation mentioned at the end of the chapter signified the darkness that seems to be hovering in the future that I mentioned just before. For the chapter to end beforehand, with the engagement or the kiss, there would be a happier tone to the engagement, but Bronte adds the storm and the tree being struck to really shift the tone and show the reader a little bit of that other side to the engagement. She shows the reader, although subtly I think, that this engagement may not be all that great.
I agree with both of you, the conversation at the end was sort of awkward of an ending to this chapter after the earlier events, but its the very end that gets to me and about the tree getting struck but the weather was not what I looked at for foreshadowing, but rather the tree itself. I see the tree as a symbol of their relationship and the split proving hard times to show in the chapters to come. It really draws in the reader as this is the last line of the chapter and makes you want to continue to read to find out what this is trying to show.
Not exactly. Did anyone else find the ending kind of awkward? There were plenty of places to end the chapter. There was the moment Jane accepted Rochester, when they left the garden place, or when the went inside and kissed, yet Bronte Chooses to to end the chapter with a conversation Adele makes with Jane. Why is that?
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I'd usually do a really long, drawn-out commentary on it, but I've already done my two comments and I kind of want to just see other people react to that, so, if that could be a part of conversation, I would appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Alex, the last chapter for this reading was not only awkward, but completely random. I realized that Rochester brought up marrying Blanche in order to arouse Jane’s jealousy in the gardens, but it still seemed so completely random in this chapter when Rochester proposed and then switched from Blanche to Jane. Obviously I was excited because I was hoping eventually this would happen :) but when reading, the timing of the proposal definitely threw me off. As my motif is weather and I have been following that, I agree with the posts on the other question by Yeji and Song; I think it is really interesting that there is a storm that breaks right after Jane accepts Rochester's proposal, AND that the tree they sat under was struck by lightening and split in half. This seems to really stick out to me and makes me suspicious of what is to follow/ what this storm is possibly foreshadowing in the future. As the storms and dark weather are not exactly the "best" kind of weather one could hope for when getting engaged, it seems to me that something is not quite happy and right with the marriage, and thus I wonder what could happen in the future. Back to Alex's comment about the conversation with Adele though, I think it was a great spot for Bronte to stop. The brief conversation mentioned at the end of the chapter signified the darkness that seems to be hovering in the future that I mentioned just before. For the chapter to end beforehand, with the engagement or the kiss, there would be a happier tone to the engagement, but Bronte adds the storm and the tree being struck to really shift the tone and show the reader a little bit of that other side to the engagement. She shows the reader, although subtly I think, that this engagement may not be all that great.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you, the conversation at the end was sort of awkward of an ending to this chapter after the earlier events, but its the very end that gets to me and about the tree getting struck but the weather was not what I looked at for foreshadowing, but rather the tree itself. I see the tree as a symbol of their relationship and the split proving hard times to show in the chapters to come. It really draws in the reader as this is the last line of the chapter and makes you want to continue to read to find out what this is trying to show.
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