Paired Extracts:Wide Sargasso Sea & Jane Eyre

‘Under what auspices?’ meaning ‘under what circumstances?’ which give us some idea that it is quite historical. The surrounding area is described in an old fashioned way because the door is described as a ‘Portal’ and the windows, ‘Chamber lattices’.

The story is written in first person narrative so that Jane is telling us the story. Because a woman is telling the story, many feelings are expressed. For example, the story includes rhetorical questions, which are answered as the story is told. The narrative technique used

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