Characters

Question 1

Jane 1

Answer 1

“I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”

Question 2

Jane 2

Answer 2

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.” (Jane on her love for Rochester)

Question 3

Jane 3

Answer 3

‘And was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see’

Question 4

Jane 4

Answer 4

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Question 5

Rochester 1

Answer 5

“I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.” (Rochester’s proposal)

Question 6

Rochester 2

Answer 6

“You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.” (Rochester’s feelings for Jane)

Question 7

Rochester 3

Answer 7

‘He laid a heavy hand on my shoulder, and, leaning on me with some stress, limped to his horse. Having one caught on the bridle, he mastered it directly and sprang to his saddle.’ The first meeting between Jane and Rochester-chapter 12

Question 8

Rochester 4

Answer 8

‘The caged eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson.’ Jane’s description of Rochester after he is blinded.

Question 9

Helen 1

Answer 9

‘Revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end.’ (Helen Burns-chapter 6)

Question 10

Helen 2

Answer 10

“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”(Helen says this to Jane)

Question 11

Helen 3

Answer 11

“It is not violence that best overcomes hate–nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.” –Helen Burns

Question 12

Bertha 1

Answer 12

‘In the deep shade, at the farther end of the room, a figure ran backwards and forwards…it grovelled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing.’ Chapter 26, description of Bertha.

Question 13

Bertha 2

Answer 13

“Fearful and ghastly to me—oh, sir, I never saw a face like it! It was a discoloured face—it was a savage face. I wish I could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments!” Description of Bertha

Question 14

Bertha 3

Answer 14

“This, sir, was purple: the lips were swelled and dark; the brow furrowed: the black eyebrows widely raised over the bloodshot eyes. Shall I tell you of what it reminded me?” “You may.” “Of the foul German spectre—the Vampyre.”’ Description of Bertha

Question 15

Bertha 4

Answer 15

“The laugh was repeated in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an odd murmur.”

Question 16

Mr Brocklehurst

Answer 16

“teach them to clothe themselves with shame-facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel.”

Question 17

St John Rivers

Answer 17

“God and nature intended you for a missionary’s wife.”

Question 18

Blanche Ingram

Answer 18

“I have just one word to say of the whole tribe; they are a nuisance.”

Question 19

Mrs Reed

Answer 19

“Children must be corrected for their faults.”