Charlotte Bronte’s novel uses literary techniques to characterize the phases of life her protagonist is leaving and entering. She starts off her novel with her character, Caroline Helstone who is eighteen years old. Charlotte says that at eighteen, she still doesn’t know the meaning of life. This stuck with me because if she is eighteen and still doesn’t know the meaning of her life then what phase is she in? This passage referred to the life before eighteen years old as a tale, a marvelous fiction.I like how the author used this because it is basically saying that you will experience the real world (adulthood) when you turn eighteen and life before that is “almost always unreal”. The word “fiction” makes me realize that your early life doesn’t
