Right from the beginning of the passage, Brontë utilizes advanced literary techniques by comparing the life of one under the age of eighteen to a “marvellous fiction.” This analogy paints the picture of what the author is trying to accomplish; before we reach adulthood, life is a tale of unexpected turns filled by the grace of fascination because we do not know any better. Young adolescents are still naïve to reality’s setting. Before reaching the age of eighteen, the author claims that our lives as humans seem to oscillate between the extremes of divinity and mortality. In a nutshell, everything is much more amped up in this era of our lives compared to when we face initiation into reality. An example of this comparison is found in Line
