life; and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended—a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence. Jane Eyre - Página 104por Charlotte Brontë - 1922 - 457 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Linda S. Kauffman - 1988 - 340 páginas
...stagnation." As she tries to overcome her sense of repression and powerlessness, her sole relief is "to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended—a...that I desired and had not in my actual existence" (95—96). The passage is a frank revelation of a discourse of desire, a first step toward Jane's ultimate... | |
| Nancy Rebecca Harrison - 1988 - 322 páginas
...solitude of the spot ad allow my mid's eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it ... ad, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended—a tale my imagination created, ad narrated continuously: quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired ad had... | |
| Eugenia C. DeLamotte - 1990 - 367 páginas
...ended—a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident,life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence. (141) In the final closure of the happy ending, women's Gothic bounds the Gothic horrors of repetition,... | |
| Betsy Erkkila - 1992 - 294 páginas
...electrified Dickinson about Jane Eyre was the figure of a woman who resisted her confinement by opening her "inward ear to a tale that was never ended—a tale...that I desired and had not in my actual existence" (Bronte 95-96). What Jane Eyre suggested was not only a heroic model of the female life but the ways... | |
| Carol J. Singley, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney - 1993 - 432 páginas
...passage's emphasis on writing as the answer to Jane's restless desires. For “best of all” to her is “a tale that was never ended—a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously.” My interpretation of Brontë's three novels—Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villetteargues that their heroines'... | |
| Regina Barreca - 1994 - 204 páginas
...will shatter the convenient containers prescribed for narrative truths, however, because she intends to "open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended—a...that I desired and had not in my actual existence" (141). Like Jane Eyre, Lucy Snowe of Villette is divided from her own responses; while it seems at... | |
| Lyndall Gordon - 1995 - 466 páginas
...alone can she open her inward ear to a tale that never ends — a tale her imagination creates — ‘quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling,...that I desired and had not in my actual existence.' The source of Jane's outburst lies in a few disconnected scraps — rather different from the formal... | |
| Stefanie Hohn - 1998 - 250 páginas
...trouble, expanded it with life; and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended - a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously;...that I desired and had not in my actual existence. It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and... | |
| Sue Hosking, Dianne Schwerdt - 1999 - 228 páginas
...passionate existence of which she is as yet unaware, symbolised by Rochester's first wife. This enables her to open 'my inward ear to a tale that was never ended-a...that I desired and had not in my actual existence' (141). This is a highly significant statement because it shows that while Jane will allow feeling and... | |
| Susanne Becker - 1999 - 352 páginas
...pain sometimes. Then my sole relief was ... to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended — a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously;...that I desired and had not in my actual existence. (ii 2) This reflection corresponds to Rosemary Jackson's view of fantasy. She sees fantasy as ‘produced... | |
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