Question

"Will you walk this way, ma'am?" said the girl; and I followed her across a square hall with high doors all round: she ushered me into a room whose double illumination of fire and candle at first dazzled me, contrasting as it did with the darkness to which my eyes had been for two hours inured; when I could see, however, a cosy and agreeable picture presented itself to my view. (Jane Eyre; Chapter 11, pp.63-64)

In the excerpt above, the brightness of the fire symbolizes the _____ to be discovered at Thornfield.
security
passion
familial warmth
Victorian domesticity

Answer 1

The correct answer is passion.

Answer 2

In the excerpt above, the brightness of the fire symbolizes the passion to be discovered at Thornfield.

Jane Eyre is a 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë. The novel gave new honesty to the Victorian epic with its sensible depiction of the internal existence of a lady, taking note of her battles with her natural desires and social condition.