child Jane Flashcards
“picture of passion”
Jane is defined by her emotions and does not act how a girl at that time should
“rebel slave”
By alluding to ‘rebel slave’ Jane evokes ideas of unjust captivity, horrific mistreatment, and oppression of the most violent and disturbing kind
red room
“deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle”- red- death/warning, religious imagery.
“superstition was with me at that moment”-gothic genre
Jane is confined to the red room as a form of punishment, reflecting the limited options and freedoms available to women during that time period.
serves as a metahore for Jane’s own emotional and psychological state. It is a space of isolation and fear, mirroring Jane’s feelings of being an outsider and her struggles with her own identity.
Red colour evokes a sense of passion and intensity, highlighting Jane’s fiery spirit and determination to assert herself in a world that constantly tries to suppress her.Reflection of Jane’s inner turmoil
“black pillar”
metaphor- brocklehurst is a puritan
‘pillar’- upstanding
‘black’- serious, death, depression
“you have a wicked heart and you must pray to God to change it, to give you a new one, and clean one- to take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh”
Ironic as mr b is described as stone
metaphor
religious hypocrisy beginning
“i saw myself transformed under mr bs eye into an artful, noxious child”
people view jane as her identity
“i was a discord at Gateshead Hall”
metaphor of musical disharmony
“uncongenial alien”
foreigner, from somewhere diff
she doesn’t fit in
“a desperate thing”
she is reduced to her emotions
