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Bronte's JANE EYRE.(Emily Bronte)(Critical Essay)
From: The Explicator
Date: 20010622
Author:TAYLOR, SUSAN B.
In chapter 13 of Jane Eyre, Jane shows Rochester a portfolio of her artwork from which he chooses three paintings for closer inspection: a cormorant perched on a sunken ship near a drowned woman, a personified Evening Star, and an Arctic scene of a colossal head representing Death. Scholars have analyzed these intriguing paintings from several perspectives, including their foreshadowing of the novel's subsequent plot and their symbolism as visionary representations of Jane's psyche. [1] Other critics have explored connections between these paintings and the engravings in Thomas ...
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