Gateshead

Question 1

“Cold winter wind brought with it clouds so sombre, and rain so penetrating”

Answer 1

Pathetic Fallacy

Question 2

“I was conscious that a moment’s mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths” Techniques:

Answer 2

Techniques: Alliteration; Language; Allusion.

Question 3

“With ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly”

Answer 3

Jane’s wild nature (c.f to wild animal pg 5)

Question 4

“History of British Birds”

Answer 4

Jane referred to as a bird

Question 5

Bird imagery

Answer 5

Birds represent freedom and release

Question 6

“You rat!”

Answer 6

Animalistic abuse

Question 7

Significance of the red room

Answer 7

Red - Sexual undertones
Gothic imagery
Child abuse
Cf to Bertha chapters about her confinement
Jane and Bertha’s mirroring personalities

Question 8

“”Unjust! - unjust!” Said my reason”

Answer 8

Suggests Jane’s unjust treatment

Question 9

“I began to recall what I had heard of dead men;…bending over me with strange pity”

Answer 9

Jane’s indescribable trauma and terror

Question 10

“For herself and her children she employed a physician”

Answer 10

Jane’s lack of status prevents her from seeing a doctor

Question 11

“She should have that fit: I wonder if she saw anything”

Answer 11

Gothic imagery

Question 12

“You thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities”

Answer 12

Victorian children

Question 13

“Paradise of peace” “bird of paradise”

Answer 13

More Bird imagery

Question 14

“Over the path of the poor orphan child”

Answer 14

Foreshadowing Jane leaving

Question 15

“A more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner - something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were - she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy little children”

Answer 15

Whilst Jane is clearly rebellious, her punishment is often unjustly de

Question 16

“I was conscious that a moment’s mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths” Interpretation:

Answer 16

Whilst Jane is clearly rebellious, her punishment is often unjustly severe and creates further passion within her. She links here to Bertha Mason for the first time.

Question 17

“I was conscious that a moment’s mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths” Analysis:

Answer 17

The alliterative “moments mutiny” stresses how even a “moment’s” rebellion is crushed by Mrs Reed. “Mutiny” highlights Jane’s natural independence. By alluding to “rebel slave” Jane evokes ideas of unjust captivity, horrific mistreatment, and oppression of the most violent and disturbing kind. “Strange penalties” emphasises freedom Mrs Reed has to act however she wishes, without fear of being punished. As Jane feels “desperation” and goes “all lengths” we see an explicit link to Bertha Mason and her desperate actions.