Jane Eyre Flashcards
Jane
“I would always rather be happy than dignified” (chapter 34)
“I was a discord in Gateshead Hall; I was like nobody there” (chapter 2)
Mrs Reed
“I felt at once that her opinion of me… was unchanged and unchangeable” (chapter 21)
“Poor, suffering woman!…She had ever hated me-dying, she must hate me still” (chapter 21)
Mr Rochester
“Little girl, a memory without a blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure” (chapter 14)
“You - poor and obscure, and small and plain, as you are - I entreat accept me as a husband” (chapter 23)
John Reed
“bad animal” (chapter 1)
Mr Brocklehurst
“Punish her body to save her soul” (chapter 7)
Bessie
“Oh you are quite a lady, Miss Jane! I knew you would be” (chapter 10)
Mr Mason
“She sucked the blood: she said she drained my heart” (chapter 20)
St John Rivers
“Refuse to be my wife, and you limit yourself forever” (chapter 34)
“Rosamond a sufferer, a laborer, a female apostle? Rosamond a missionary’s wife? No!” (chapter 32)
Helen Burns
“You are too impulsive, too vehement; the sovereign hand that created your fame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources.” (chapter 8)
“It is not violence that best overcomes hate–nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.” (chapter 6)
Miss Temple
“Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air” (chapter 6)
Bertha
“demoniac laugh” (chapter 15)
“she sucked the blood, she said she’d drain my heart” (chapter 20)
Adele
Mr R: “She is not bright, she has no talents” (chapter 13)
Blanche Ingram
“Blanche was moulded like a Dian” (chapter 17)
“She could not charm him” (chapter 18)
Gothic
Jane: “I was oppressed, suffocated; endurance, broke down; I rushed to the door and shook the lock in desperate effort” (chapter 2)
Jane: “I watched her come…as though some word of doom were to be written on her disk…then, not a moon, but a white human form” (chapter 27)
Bildungsroman
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will” (chapter 23)
