“Bessie…fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and older ballads; or (as at a later period I discovered) from the pages of Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland” (3).
Here, Jane shows her age more clearly and accurately. Before this, it is difficult to believe that Jane is a child around the age of ten. Her dialect and diction suggest an older, more mature Jane, not the ten-year-old Jane that she is at the beginning of the novel. Brontë employs a literary device, allusion, to depict Jane’s age. Brontë alludes to two novels, Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland, both romantic novels that a girl of Jane’s age would find enthralling during the 19th century.
Here, Jane shows her age more clearly and accurately. Before this, it is difficult to believe that Jane is a child around the age of ten. Her dialect and diction suggest an older, more mature Jane, not the ten-year-old Jane that she is at the beginning of the novel. Brontë employs a literary device, allusion, to depict Jane’s age. Brontë alludes to two novels, Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland, both romantic novels that a girl of Jane’s age would find enthralling during the 19th century.
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