Tuesday, September 16, 2008
ghosts
These last chapters are getting weird. I'm starting to think Thornfield might be haunted. It's the only thing that explains the odd behaver of everyone at Thornfield including Rochester.Grace is acting more and more unhumanlike. She sneaks around and causes mischief for no good reason and nobody says anything about it. Even Rochester tries to hide Grace's behavior from everyone. Why is he hiding so many secrets from everyone including Jane? Also since the begining of the book, Jane has talked about ghosts. And when she first saw Rochester, she thought he was a ghost because of the scary stories she was told as a kid about the ghost horse with the dog walking next to it. This book started out realistic, but now it seems mystical and out there. This is just an idea and maybe there is no ghosts and Grace is just a crazy and Rochester is just a creepy old man who holds many secrets.
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Nice post, Justin! I like your notion of the place being "haunted" (and, as you rightly ask: by what? by whom?). I'm also pleased that you made the connection between the "gothic" elements of the novel and the tales Bessie told to Jane as a child. Very astute. I'm anxious to see your reaction to events yet to unfold.
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