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Study Guide : Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre: genre, structure, language & literary devices

Use of structure in Jane Eyre

When analysing structure, we should be thinking about how Brontë has ordered her text and put it together. There are two aspects we should be thinking about here:

Text level - this is how the text is constructed as a whole, thinking about the opening, middle and ending of Jane Eyre. Within this, you can look at how a character or a theme progresses and develops in the narrative.

Sentence level - this is how the text is constructed at a sentence level: sentence types, lengths and the ordering of events. continue reading...

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