Jane Eyre Flashcards
(INDEPENDENT) “I am no…
bird and no net ensares me: I am a free human being with independent will”
(SOCIAL CLASS/EQUALITY) “Do you think Sir,…
that you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I?”
(LOVE J) “I would rather..
be happy than dignified”
(LOVE J) “I am no angel..
I asserted and I will not be one till I die; I will be myself”
(LOVE J) “There is no happiness like…
that of your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort”
(LOVE J) “Reader..
I married him”
(SELF-CARE AND SELF RESPECT J) “I care for..
myself, the more solitary, the more friendless.. the more I will respect myself”
(SELF-CARE AND SELF RESPECT J) “I can live..
alone if self-respect, and circumstances allow me so to do”
(MORALITY J) “Laws and principles..
are not for times when there is no temptation… If at my individual convenience I might break them what would they be worth?”
(HELEN BURNS) “If all the world..
hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends”
(HELEN BURNS) “It is not violence..
that best overcomes hate - nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury”
(LOVE J) “All my heart is yours..
Sir: it belongs to you “
(THEME OF EYES) “The soul fortunately..
has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye”
(COMPANIONSHIP) “I ask you to pass through..
life at my side - to be my second self, and best earthly companion”
(ST JHN TO J) “A missionary wife..
you must - shall be. You shall be mine, I claim you - not for my pleasure but for my Sovereign’s service”
