Chapter 23: “It’s Never Just Heart Disease…and Rarely Just Illness”
• Heart disease in literature is metaphorical and lyrical
• The heart has been the symbolic source of emotion since ancient times
• Homer has characters describe other characters as having “a heart of iron” to mean that that character is hard-hearted or tough-minded
• All great writers use the heart as a center of emotion
• Writers use it because readers feel emotion in their hearts
• Writers can use heart ailments as a way to show a character’s problems such as loneliness, cruelty, disloyalty, cowardice, or bad love
• Heart ailments are also used as social metaphors (not as often as above)
• Socially, heart ailments can stand for the above matters on a larger scale or for …show more content…
Helen was a very religious person and was not bitter about dying because she felt that it was God’s plan for her. As mentioned in the above notes, death from consumption has a sort of bizarre beauty and often the sick person looks like a martyr from medieval paintings. The death of a martyr fits Helen’s role as a spiritual person who helps Jane realize more about her own faith.
Chapter 25: “It’s My Symbol and I’ll Cry If I Want To”
• Some symbols are common and well known (Ex: river = change, flow, flood, or drought; rocks = resistance to change, permanence, stasis)
• A conceit is an extended metaphor that occurs throughout a work
• In conceits, the figurative device seems to be more important than the
• Heart disease in literature is metaphorical and lyrical
• The heart has been the symbolic source of emotion since ancient times
• Homer has characters describe other characters as having “a heart of iron” to mean that that character is hard-hearted or tough-minded
• All great writers use the heart as a center of emotion
• Writers use it because readers feel emotion in their hearts
• Writers can use heart ailments as a way to show a character’s problems such as loneliness, cruelty, disloyalty, cowardice, or bad love
• Heart ailments are also used as social metaphors (not as often as above)
• Socially, heart ailments can stand for the above matters on a larger scale or for …show more content…
Helen was a very religious person and was not bitter about dying because she felt that it was God’s plan for her. As mentioned in the above notes, death from consumption has a sort of bizarre beauty and often the sick person looks like a martyr from medieval paintings. The death of a martyr fits Helen’s role as a spiritual person who helps Jane realize more about her own faith.
Chapter 25: “It’s My Symbol and I’ll Cry If I Want To”
• Some symbols are common and well known (Ex: river = change, flow, flood, or drought; rocks = resistance to change, permanence, stasis)
• A conceit is an extended metaphor that occurs throughout a work
• In conceits, the figurative device seems to be more important than the