12. Jane Eyre: (pg. 234)
“...Wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.”
A sylph is a mythological creature that inhabits the air. Saying someone is a sylph is representing them to be a beautiful and slim woman. In this passage, Bronte depicts Jane Eyre as a beautiful, mythological person rather than the short, plain character she has previously been portrayed as. Bronte perhaps makes these changes because it is Mr. Rochester describing Jane. Do not all lovers see their significant other beautiful in someway?
"Sylph." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2009. Merriam-Webster Online. 29 November 2009. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Sylph
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