"I am not talking to you now"

Question 1

finish this quote: “I’m not talking to you now”

Answer 1

“through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even mortal fles; it is my spirit that address your spirit; as if we have passed through the grave and we stood at God’s feet, equal, as we are!”

Question 2

what is happening before this quote?

Answer 2

• nature symbolically mimics Jane’s feelings
• Jane notes the sky is “burning with the light of red jewel and furnace flame at one point”
• world offers various sensual pleasures
• as jasmine and rose have yielded “a sacrifice of incense”
• this moment combines material pleasures with spiritual pleasures
• and Jane’s feelings she could “haunt” the orchard forever

Question 3

what happens at the end of the chapter?

Answer 3

• the chestnut tree under which Rochester proposed is “writhing and groaning”
• thunder lightning, Jane and Rochester forced back into house

Question 4

what does the splitting of the tree symbolise?

Answer 4

• relationship reached apex of ripeness
• raging storm=tragedy coming
• night, lightning splits tree half way
• foreshadows seperation soon to befall
• strong base of tree anticipates Jane’s return to Rochester
• strong love connected them

Question 5

why does Jane say this quote?

Answer 5

• confirms her secondary status as she address him “master”
• creates love essentially and uncontrollably beyond bounds
• creates equality by moving the relationship outside of material world and into spiritual

Question 6

what was Bronte’s intentions?

Answer 6

• strips away everything that Victorians deems important to status
• in this life none of it matters we will all return to God with nothing but our deeds
• constraints are preventing a whole new world yet to experience
• social rules creates loss of identity but tarnishes right to feel

Question 7

what would a Victorian audience think?

Answer 7

• subverisve elements across the whole novel
• these elements undermine religious, social and political conventions
• novel rejecets Christianity
• advocates gender and class equality which is outrageous

Question 8

what would a modern audience think?

Answer 8

• modern critics praise novel for same subversive qualities
• advocates Christianity in which we are all equal before God regardless age, gender, class

Question 9

what could “it is my spirit that addresses your spirit” also link to?-

Answer 9

• communion of souls
• with beings that are not of blood and flesh
• connected right at the heart
• labels the core God created us with