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The passage I have chosen to do the close critical reading on is from Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte. This passage is part of vol. II chapter 10 and is as follows: "It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind deliver ....

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... right to hold fast to each other,' I said: as if the monster-splinters were living things, and could hear me. 'I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be little sense of life in you yet; rising out of that adhesion at the faithful, honest roots: you will never have green leaves more - never more see birds making nests and singing idylls in your boughs; the time of love and pleasure is over with you; but you are not desolate: each of you has a comrade to sympathize with him in his decay.'" As reflected in the passage above, nature plays an integral part as a thematic element in Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte consisten ...