Allusion- Babel

"...in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues"- 46

This is an allusion to Genesis 11:1-9, a story in the bible. It it is a story about men who want to build a tower to the havens and are stopped by God. God stops them by stopping communication between them by changing there language. In Jane Eyre The talking amongst a group of girls was stop almost like the inability to communicate between the men in the bible story.