The following quotes describe Thornfield and set the stage
for the story. In many ways Thornfield is another character of the story, taking on
different moods as the plot unfolds.
It was three storeys high, of proportions not
vast, though considerable: a gentleman’s manor-house, not a nobleman’s seat: battlements
round the top gave it a picturesque look. Its grey front stood out well from the
background of a rookery, whose cawing tenants were now on the wing: they flew over the
lawn and grounds to alight in a great meadow, from which these were separated by a sunk
fence, and where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks,
at once explained the etymology of the mansion’s designation. - Chapter
11
Farther off were hills: not so lofty as those
round Lowood, nor so craggy, nor so like barriers of separation from the living world;
but yet quiet and lonely hills enough, and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a
seclusion I had not expected to find existent so near the stirring locality of Millcote.
- Chapter 11
"... I like Thornfield, its antiquity, its
retirement, its old crow-trees and thorn-trees, its grey façade, and lines of dark
windows reflecting that metal welkin: and yet how long have I abhorred the very thought
of it, shunned it like a great plague-house? How I do still abhor—” - Mr. Rochester,
Chapter 13
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