Donde los niños son confinados a la casa por el frío
exterior y Jane no recibe el mismo trato que sus primos. Jane se siente sola y
abandonada, se refugia en la lectura. Del clásico de Charlotte Brontë, Jane
Eyre.
En vocabulario
buscamos shrubbery,
chilly, nipped, chiding, sprightly, y caviller. También se
menciona A History of British Birds, que toma Jane para ojear. Bueno, te
contamos un poco sobre el libro más
abajo. Fijáte…
Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, “She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at…
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There was no possibility of taking a walk that
day. We had been wandering, indeed, in
the leafless shrubbery
an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company,
dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a
rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the
question.
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks,
especially on chilly
afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes,
and a heart saddened by the chidings
of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical
inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.
The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now
clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by
the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling
nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me,
she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, “She regretted to be under
the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from
Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in
good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more
attractive and sprightly
manner—something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were—she really must
exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little
children.”
“What does Bessie say I have done?” I asked.
“Jane, I don’t like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is
something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. Be seated somewhere; and until you can speak
pleasantly, remain silent.”
A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I
slipped in there. It contained a
bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be
one stored with pictures. I mounted into
the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and,
having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double
retirement.
Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the
right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not
separating me from the drear November day.
At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the
aspect of that winter afternoon. Afar,
it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and
storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and
lamentable blast.
I returned to my book—Bewick’s History of British Birds:
the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there
were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as
a blank. They were those which treat of
the haunts of sea-fowl; of “the solitary rocks and promontories” by them only
inhabited; of the coast of Norway… (Jane
Eyre, chapter 1, by Charlotte
Bronte)
La novela
Jane
Eyre
sigue las emociones y experiencias de esta heroína, desde su niñez hasta su
adultez, incluyendo su amor por el señor Rochester, en Thornfield Hall.
Pertenece al género Bildungsroman,
sobre el crecimiento moral y psicológico del personaje. La novela contiene
elementos de crítica social, con una fuerte carga de moralidad. Algunos la
consideran adelantada a su tiempo dado el carácter individualista de Jane y la exploración de clasismo,
sexualidad, y religión.
Vocabulario
Shrubbery:
A shrubbery, shrub
border or shrub garden is a part of a garden where shrubs, mostly flowering
species, are thickly planted (arbustos).
Chilly:
cool, breezy, fresh, sharp, penetrating. It was a chilly afternoon.
Nipped:
nip: to harm or hurt (something) with cold.
An early frost nipped the crops.
Chiding:
to criticize (someone) usually gently so as to correct a fault.
My wife chided me for forgetting to offer our guests some refreshments.
Sprightly:
having much high-spirited energy and movement.
A sprightly
child who often claims to be too tired to move when it's time to do chores.
Caviller:
as
in criticizer. A person given to harsh judgments and to finding faults.
The chronic cavillers who are going to complain no matter what
the mayor does.
Para saber
A
History of British Birds es un libro de historia natural de
Thomas Bewick, publicado en dos
volúmenes. El volumen 1, Land Birds,
apareció en 1797. El volumen 2, Water Birds, apareció en 1804. El libro es admirado
principalmente por la belleza y claridad de los grabados de Bewick, que se consideran ampliamente su
mejor trabajo, y entre los mejores en ese medio.
Los Birds
de Bewick se convirtieron
inmediatamente en un éxito de ventas.
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