Chapter 27 – Bertha story and Jane leaves

Question 1

Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat

Answer 1

Personification; Jane is being logical, rather than ruled by passion

Question 2

‘I was supported by Mr Rochester.’ juxtaposed to ‘Mr Rochester I must leave you.’
- ‘I pity you.’ (Jane to Rochester)

Answer 2

Whilst she is lower than him in class, she is higher than him in status

Question 3

Rochester refers to Bertha as a ‘filthy burden’

Answer 3

Could again, be a post-colonial reading

Question 4

to live familiarly with inferiors is degrading

Answer 4

This is ironic of Rochester because in the eyes of society, Jane is inferior to him