Examples Of Supernatural In Jane Eyre

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In the novel Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, one main theme of the book is recurring supernatural events. Throughout the novel there are little and big moments that sceme supernatural or just unnatural. Some of the events are not supernatural but they are something that normally do not happen in someone's life. First, in the second chapter jane is looking at herself in the mirror and what she sees herself as does not sceme right. For example, “All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp ...” This quotation represents how Jane perceives herself. She sees herself as a character such as a ghost or a fairy. The reader also see her being perceived as a ghost and a fairy in the …show more content…

There is no way that someone could hear this . she says’”"What have you heard? What do you see?’ asked St. John. I saw nothing, but I heard a voice somewhere cry— ‘Jane! Jane! Jane!’—nothing more. ‘O God! what is it?’ I gasped. I might have said, ‘Where is it?’”from this passage we can see that she could hear voices in her head and had no idea where they came from. Right after that she is confused and says, “‘it did not seem in the room—nor in the house—nor in the garden; it did not come out of the air—nor from under the earth—nor from overhead. I had heard it—where, or whence, for ever impossible to know! And it was the voice of a human being—a known, loved, well-remembered voice—that of Edward Fairfax Rochester; and it spoke in pain and woe, wildly, eerily, urgently.’” From this passage the reader can infer that she is trying to find out where the voices are from and and what or who said the