The quotation comes from Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (Chap. 26) | Genius
Quotation: My hopes were all dead—struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. I looked at my love: that feeling which was my master’s—which he had created; it shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it; it could not seek Mr. Rochester’s arms—it could not derive warmth from his breast.
Context: Jane had known her bridegroom, Mr. R, was married.
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Hi everyone! I don’t quite understand the bold part. I try to interpret it as below. Is it correct?
The first-born… => This is what the LORD says: "About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh… Plagues of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Subtle => 11.11 Working imperceptibly or secretly, insidious; as in my thread my blood felt their subtle violence as it had never felt frost or fire
Doom => 3 b : DEATH, RUIN (from M-W dictionary)
The sentence => My hopes were all dead—struck with a subtle doom (= a insidious death), such as (= the subtle doom = a insidious death), in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt (=all the first-born …. were killed).
Quotation: My hopes were all dead—struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. I looked at my love: that feeling which was my master’s—which he had created; it shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it; it could not seek Mr. Rochester’s arms—it could not derive warmth from his breast.
Context: Jane had known her bridegroom, Mr. R, was married.
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Hi everyone! I don’t quite understand the bold part. I try to interpret it as below. Is it correct?
The first-born… => This is what the LORD says: "About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh… Plagues of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Subtle => 11.11 Working imperceptibly or secretly, insidious; as in my thread my blood felt their subtle violence as it had never felt frost or fire
Doom => 3 b : DEATH, RUIN (from M-W dictionary)
The sentence => My hopes were all dead—struck with a subtle doom (= a insidious death), such as (= the subtle doom = a insidious death), in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt (=all the first-born …. were killed).