“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to
eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by
education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones” (275).
The particular diction in this quote helps to illustrate the
known idea of prejudices. What I like most is that this quote embodies a lot of
what people must learn in order to lessen prejudices. Often prejudices can be
made without people knowing that they are doing it. Bronte really puts it best
when she says they are “firm as weeds among stones”. The words “soil”, “firm”,
and “weeds” all significantly stood out to me. Prejudices are indeed like
weeds, and sometimes we disguise them as flowers.
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