Chronotopes In Jane Eyre

Chronotopes are formally constistuted category of novels. The choice of chronotopes is central in novels ,it is the type of space and time that the novelist takes in order to organize his work. Chronotopes even define genre of a piece of a work and different genres have distinctive chronotopes .Chronotopes are very significant as they are the “organizing centre for the fundamental narrative events of the novel .The chronotope is the place where the knots of narrative are tied and untied .The events of any narrative are structured around the chronotopes as they make the events abstract . The plot of a novel is manipulated within the chronotopes . They make the events realistic as time and

Bakhtin’s major chronotopes that he pays attention to in the essay are the chronotope of the road ,castle ,salon a nd threshold .All these chronotopes are delineated in the novel Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is the story of an orphan girl who grows up into a self possessed individual .The novel is Bildungsroman in nature as it highlights the hardships, growth and struggle of the protagonist who finally in the end leads a peaceful life.

The chronotope of the road in a novel is characterized by rapid changes of a scene and situation in the novel. The road unlike the homogeneity of domestic chronotope. is highlighted as a space where people of different classes intersect.In it’s classic manifestation ,the road is that which runs to exotic terrains and places. The chronotope of the road has relation to the encounters as

The chronotope of the threshold is also usually combined with the “motif of encounter” but “ its most fundamental instance is as the chronotope of crisis and break in a life. .The word threshold in literal terms means “the breaking point of life, the moment of crisis ,the decision that changes a life. In this chronotope time is “instantaneous” and has no fixed duration and spaces are that which extend to the open air-“ are the main places of action in his works, places where crisis occur ,the falls, resurrections ,renewals ,epiphanies ,decisions that determine the whole life of a man