Dreams and Visions Flashcards
‘presentiments are strange things!…
one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key’
apparition of her mother’s spirit occurs urging her to leave Rochester:
“My daughter, flee temptation!” “Mother, I will”.
“Jane! Jane! Jane!’…
wildly eerily, urgently where or whence for ever impossible to know’
telepathic summons recall Jane telling R
‘I beheld you in imagination so near me, I scarcely missed your actual presence’
“Down superstition!” she commands her own skepticism.
“This is not thy deception, nor thy witchcraft: it is the work of nature. She was roused and did - no miracle - but her best”.
What does Robert B. Heilman say about the visions occurring in moonlight?
‘an aesthetic staple [which] reveals an author groping for… a reality beyond the confines of everyday reality, toward an interplay of private consciousness and mysterious forces at work in the universe’
infant dream -
‘baby-phantom’ nightmare directly before Jane is physically summoned to her past to see dying Aunt Reed
infant reappears in two dreams on the evening of her wedding
- Jane ‘following the windings of an unknown road’ ‘burdened’ with the child, watching Rochester ahead
- Jane finds Thornfield ‘a dreary ruin’ and hears R riding away, loses balance as she climbs over a wall and the child rolls away
Gilbert and Gubar on the infant child
the child represents the burden of Jane’s past, just as Bertha stands for Rochester’s.
