Ferndean

Question 1

“reader, do you think I feared him in his blind ferocity?” chapter 37

Answer 1

Jane’s love will last forever

Question 2

“my little darling!” chapter 37

Answer 2

happy Jane has come back to him

Question 3

“it cheers my withered heart” chapter 37

Answer 3

implies Rochester was dying without Jane

Question 4

“there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you… tomorrow, I fear I shall find her no more” chapter 37

Answer 4

metaphor for loss of Jane

Question 5

‘I led him out of the wet and wild into some cheerful fields’ chapter 37

Answer 5

metaphorical/literal sunshine. his perspective has changed

Question 6

‘Jealousy had got hold of him’ chapter 37

Answer 6

deliberate - abstract noun - personification when Jane mentions St John - Rochester becomes interrogative

Question 7

“all my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain” chapter 37

Answer 7

total love and commitment

Question 8

“I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut tree” chapter 37

Answer 8

Romantic imagery - Rochester compares himself to the chestnut tree

Question 9

“To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth” chapter 37

Answer 9

Jane’s response to Rochester’s proposal - mutual need

Question 10

“my heart swells with gratitude to the beneficent God of this earth just now” chapter 37

Answer 10

they see God in the same way as generous. God took Jane away from Rochester, now Bertha is dead Jane is back to him. God has facilitated their reunion

Question 11

chapter 37

Answer 11

profound sense of balance between the two protagonists. Jane’s rise - masculine. Rochester’s loss of property ‘feminised’ him

Question 12

‘I served both for his prop and guide’ chapter 37

Answer 12

Jane cast herself as a literal and metaphorical ‘prop and guide’ she may hold him up but she also shows him the way - balanced - goodness and rightness

Question 13

‘reader, I married him’ chapter 38

Answer 13

position of power and confidence - unusual for victorian ‘I’

Question 14

“our honeymoon will shine our life long” chapter 38

Answer 14

Rochester. feel like newly weds for whole marriage

Question 15

‘ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh’ chapter 38

Answer 15

their closeness is illustrated by the Biblical sounding “bone of my bone” allusion. ‘we talk… all day long’ - conversation what sustains them - Jane completes him

Question 16

‘he eventually recovered the sight of that one eye…when his first born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes… god had tempered judgement with mercy’ chapter 38

Answer 16

a magical happy ending. bountiful God.

Question 17

‘as to St John Rivers, he left England: he went to India…the toil draws near its close…amen; even so come, Lord Jesus’ chapter 38

Answer 17

unconventional ending - challenge perception that she had written a ‘love story’. last point of the book is about St John. echo of Helen Burns