In the quote “…my night was wretched, my rest broken: the ground was damp, the air cold,” Charlotte Bronte sets Jane’s disparity for warmth and hospitality after wandering the streets of an unknown town. “Damp” and “cold” are negatively connotated because cold is usually correlated to death and damp is not a comfortable living condition. Atwood uses hues representing tranquility and youth to set a spring setting and a mellow mood: “FAITH, in square print, surrounded by a wreath of lilies. FAITH is a faded blue, the leaves of the lilies a dingy green.” The author uses similar connotations regarding word choice. These two novels are in the same curriculum because of many reasons. A woman struggling her way through society is often a quest and the outcome can often be unpredictable. Although the times these two novels have a mass time difference, the struggle for women does not differ. Jane Eyre and The Handmaid’s Tale point of view also makes it easily accessible as to what women feel when they are being suppressed by society. It is important to take notice of the issues happening in the novel because they relate to present day at
In the quote “…my night was wretched, my rest broken: the ground was damp, the air cold,” Charlotte Bronte sets Jane’s disparity for warmth and hospitality after wandering the streets of an unknown town. “Damp” and “cold” are negatively connotated because cold is usually correlated to death and damp is not a comfortable living condition. Atwood uses hues representing tranquility and youth to set a spring setting and a mellow mood: “FAITH, in square print, surrounded by a wreath of lilies. FAITH is a faded blue, the leaves of the lilies a dingy green.” The author uses similar connotations regarding word choice. These two novels are in the same curriculum because of many reasons. A woman struggling her way through society is often a quest and the outcome can often be unpredictable. Although the times these two novels have a mass time difference, the struggle for women does not differ. Jane Eyre and The Handmaid’s Tale point of view also makes it easily accessible as to what women feel when they are being suppressed by society. It is important to take notice of the issues happening in the novel because they relate to present day at