16. Jane Eyre: (pg. 377)
“ ‘Jane! Jane! Jane!’ – nothing more.”… “ ‘Where are you?’ I exclaimed.”…The hills beyond Marsh Glen sent the answer faintly back. ‘Where are you?’ I listened. The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush.”
A moor is a large land area where most things cannot grow because of poor soil quality. Moors are boggy areas. It is interesting that Bronte would have the voice of Jane’s love coming to her from a moor; you would think that a character who hears a voice coming out of a barren wasteland would think the voice was bad or evil (popular creepy tone again). Instead, Jane recognizes hearing the voice as a good sign. This falls in line with the romantic tone that Bronte develops in the novel and her theme of finding love. Jane’s character believes in love and recognizes love even when it calls to her from strange places.
"Moor." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2009. Merriam-Webster Online. 1 December 2009 http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Moor
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nice analysis .. especially in the last couple of lines
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