Gateshead

Question 1

‘chilly afternoons’ chapter 1

Answer 1

pathetic fallacy at the start demonstrates a lock of love in Jane’s life

Question 2

“what does Bessie say I have done?” chapter 1

Answer 2

Jane is shown challenging her Aunt straight away

Question 3

‘the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone’ chapter 1

Answer 3

Example of the sublime and introduced to ice and fire

Question 4

‘he bullied and punished me’ chapter 1

Answer 4

Jane talking about John Reed being abusive to her

Question 5

“you ought to beg and not to live here with gentlemen’s children like us” chapter 1

Answer 5

John’s response to Bronte challenging social norms as property ownership is totally, utterly and unfairly masculine

Question 6

'’lock her in there’’ chapter 1

Answer 6

Lack of support and love from Mrs Reed - inhumane

Question 7

chapter 2

Answer 7

transition from girlhood to womanhood - passionate Jane taught to be passive and restrained

Question 8

‘rebel slave’ chapter 2

Answer 8

Jane is aware that she has no rights

Question 9

‘the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me’ chapter 2

Answer 9

ignominy means making you feel even worse therefore the Red Room indicates the Reeds want to stop Jane from blossoming into an adult

Question 10

‘it is your place to be humble, and to try to make yourself agreeable to them’ chapter 2

Answer 10

Miss Abbot talking about social class

Question 11

‘looking-glass’ chapter 2

Answer 11

foreshadows like to Bertha Mason

Question 12

‘I was a discord at Gateshead hall’ chapter 2

Answer 12

metaphor for disharmony how Jane does not belong

Question 13

‘I endeavoured to stifle it - I endeavoured to be firm’ chapter 2

Answer 13

Jane knows her uncle died in the red room - her imagination is very vivid and she has a passionate character

Question 14

'’let me go into the nursery!” chapter 2

Answer 14

Exclamation mark shows Jane’s cry for help and nursery becomes a metaphor for a child

Question 15

‘Mrs Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in… unconsciousness closed the scene’ chapter 2

Answer 15

confirmed Jane is going to be subject to Mrs Reed’s unjust behaviour

Question 16

‘I felt so sheltered and befriended’ chapter 3

Answer 16

apothecary is kind

Question 17

“comfort and hope to the poor orphan child” chapter 3

Answer 17

Bessie’s song reflects Jane’s condition which is sadness

Question 18

‘children can feel but they cannot analyse their feelings’ chapter 3

Answer 18

Bronte understands that children have legitimate feelings

Question 19

“one really cannot care for such a little toad as that” chapter 3

Answer 19

Abbot being harsh

Question 20

‘appointing me a small closet to sleep in by ,myself, condemning me to take my meals alone, and pass all my time in the nursery’ chapter 4

Answer 20

Bronte uses language of the law which implies Jane has been a prisoner at Gateshead

Question 21

“what would uncle Reed say to you, if her were alive?” chapter 4

Answer 21

rhetorical question which is the antithesis of victorian childhood as Jane is passionate and outspoken but children should be seen and not heard

Question 22

‘to this crib I always took my doll; human beings must love something’ chapter 4

Answer 22

Jane is still a child alternatively shows she misses her mother

Question 23

‘a black pillar!’ chapter 4

Answer 23

Jane uses exclamation mark to describe Brocklehurst showing her shock and the pillar is a metaphor for him being a cold, hard, unchangeable, and untouchable character with a suggestion of him being threatening through ‘carved mask’ in next line

Question 24

‘what a great nose! and what a mouth! and what large prominent teeth!’ chapter 4

Answer 24

fairytalesque imagery shows the innocence of Jane and there is connotations of evil which explicitly implies that Brocklehurst is the big bad wolf. exclamatory

Question 25

“do you know where the wicked go after death?”chapter 4

Answer 25

Brocklehurst is highly religious and thinks Jane is a ‘naughty little girl’ and this is an old testament presentation

Question 26

to avoid hell “I must keep in good health, and not die” chapter 4

Answer 26

unorthodox response from Jane and she knows what she is meant to say - religion and fear are inextricably linked

Question 27

‘speak I must: I had been trodding on severely, and must turn: but how?’ chapter 4

Answer 27

after Mrs Reed asking if she can go to Lowood. real mark of Jane’s childish indignation - italics on ‘speak’ and ‘must’ emphasises Jane’s passion

Question 28

“I will never call you aunt again… and if anyone asks… I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty” chapter 4

Answer 28

Jane growing up also shows her as being desperate fore love but her aunt Reed can’t give her love and she feels the ‘stangest sense of freedom’ after accusing her

Question 29

‘it was the hardest battle I had fought and the victory I had gained’ chapter 4

Answer 29

semantic field of war is an extended metaphor and shows her time at Gateshead