"Do you think I am an automaton?"

Question 1

finish this quote:”Do you think I am an automaton?”

Answer 1

“A machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup?”

Question 2

what is happening in this quote?

Answer 2

• Mr Rochester dupes Jane into believing that he will marry Blanche
• expects Jane to stay at Thornfield Hall
• Jane says why she’ll leave him despite her feelings
• asserts her worth as an individual despite being a women and not of upperclass
• proclaims moral code

Question 3

what is the effect of the repetitive rhetorical questions?

Answer 3

• produces emphasis, clarity, amplification aswell as emotional effect
• invites reader to reflect on passionate nature
• to evaulate her personality
• doesn’t say “I’m not..”

Question 4

what is the effect of the violent verbs?

Answer 4

• ‘snatched’: take hold of something suddenly and roughly
• ‘dashed’: hitting with great force causing damage
• both impactful describing her feelings of pain and betrayal

Question 5

what effect does the metaphor of an ‘automaton’ have?

Answer 5

• compares Jane to encrypted robot who is set to fulfil the submissive and obedient role of women
• indicates Jabe expected to conform to passive nature of women by performing specific role
• defies this by challenging traditional role and vocalising her thoughts
• rather than being subservient wife society expects her to be
• amplifies importance of individuality for society to function

Question 6

what effect does the religious symbolism have?

Answer 6

• bread and water=body and blood of Christ
• necessities in order to survive=needs his love in order to survive
• religious illusion as Mr Rochester becomes her idol of blood and body
• link to false idols ideally a sin
• foreshadows their doomed love as Jane nearly comitted sin and condoned in bigamy

Question 7

what does this whole quote tell us about Jane?

Answer 7

• Jane difers because she wants to marry for love
• Blanche marrying for her benefit
• knows she is equal to Mr Rochester, isn’t afraid to stand up to him

Question 8

what was Bronte’s intentions?

Answer 8

• Jane questions Rochester and his values
• portrays dismissal of traditional notion of typical passive Victorian woman
• creates jane with these beliefs to comment on how brutal Victorian expectations were
• lashes out that they’re conditioned to suppress all emotion