“Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues” (45).
Again, Brontë references the Bible, this time with a story from Genesis. The Tower of Babel was a tower to Heaven built by men who spoke the same language. God interfered with the building of the tower by giving the men different languages, inhibiting their ability to understand each other, and scattering them throughout the Earth. Brontë compares the school full of young girls to the Tower of Babel to show how varying the girls are and how difficult it is to quell the uproar.
Again, Brontë references the Bible, this time with a story from Genesis. The Tower of Babel was a tower to Heaven built by men who spoke the same language. God interfered with the building of the tower by giving the men different languages, inhibiting their ability to understand each other, and scattering them throughout the Earth. Brontë compares the school full of young girls to the Tower of Babel to show how varying the girls are and how difficult it is to quell the uproar.
Works Cited:
Dolphin, Lambert. "The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Languages." 16 Apr. 2000. 30 Nov. 2008 http://ldolphin.org/babel.html
Maas, Anthony. "Tower of Babel." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 30 Nov. 2008 http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15005b.htm.
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