Sunday, October 26, 2014
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Fancy Language Outcast?
After reading the Jane Eyre excerpt from chapter 7, I chose to answer the question...
How do the elevated diction and elaborate syntax contrast with the feelings of the narrator in paragraphs 11-12?
I think that elaborate syntax and elevated diction is something readers expect with more formal things. For example, a textbook, poem, a speech from a president, an academic journal, etc.. But we have Jane as a narrator, who in all seriousness, is just a girl who doesn't want to be called out and wants to be left alone. I think that's a rather normal feeling amongst people. So it is a strange contrast to have an ordinary girl with ordinary feelings using all this elaborate speech (she's not in IB, she doesn't need to sound fancy). I think the fact that Jane does use all this "fancy" language adds to the idea of her being "abnormal." She is literally put on a stool and made to feel like an outcast, so it is possible that her syntax and diction are supposed to add to that idea.
Any thoughts? Comment below!
How do the elevated diction and elaborate syntax contrast with the feelings of the narrator in paragraphs 11-12?
I think that elaborate syntax and elevated diction is something readers expect with more formal things. For example, a textbook, poem, a speech from a president, an academic journal, etc.. But we have Jane as a narrator, who in all seriousness, is just a girl who doesn't want to be called out and wants to be left alone. I think that's a rather normal feeling amongst people. So it is a strange contrast to have an ordinary girl with ordinary feelings using all this elaborate speech (she's not in IB, she doesn't need to sound fancy). I think the fact that Jane does use all this "fancy" language adds to the idea of her being "abnormal." She is literally put on a stool and made to feel like an outcast, so it is possible that her syntax and diction are supposed to add to that idea.
Any thoughts? Comment below!
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