Jane Eyre Flashcards
5 Quotes describing Jane; Chapters 1-4
“She really must exclude me from privileges intended for only contented, happy little children.”
“she’s like a mad cat.”
“Did ever anybody see such a picture of passion!”
“I strove to fulfil every duty; and I was termed naughty and tiresome, sullen and sneaking, from morning to noon, and from noon to night”
“a strange child she could not love”
3 Quotes describing John Reed; Chapters 1-4
“he was not quick either of vision or conception”
“You are like a murderer- you are like a slave driver- you are like the Roman emperors!”
“large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.”
3 Quotes describing Mrs. Reed; Chapters 1-4
“she was a woman of robust frame, square-shouldered and strong-limbed.”
“she had a somewhat large face, the under-jaw being much developed.”
“Jane I don’t like cavaliers or questioners;”
Quotes describing/comparing Georgiana Reed and Jane Eyre; Chapters 1-4
“long curls and her blue eyes and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted.”
“a beauty like Miss Georgiana would be more moving in the same condition
3 Quotes describing Bessie; Chapters 1-4
“I remember her as a slim young woman, with black hair, dark eyes, very nice features and good clear complexion.”
“she had a capricious and hasty temper, and indifferent ideas of principal and justice”
“I believe I am fonder of you than all of the others.”
3 Quotes describing Brocklehurst; Chapters 1-4
“grey eyes which twinkled under a pair of bushy brows.”
“he seemed to me a tall gentleman,”
“a black pillar!”
“all the lines of his frame were equally harsh and prim.”
“straight narrow and sable-clad shape.”
3 Quotes about class systems/Jane’s status; Chapters 1-4
“as well as her nature would permit her: but how could she really like an interloper, not of her race”
“‘it is only on condition of perfect submission and stillness that I shall liberate you then.’”
“No; you are less than a servant”
4 Quotes describing Jane: Chapters 5-10?
“I am a defective being, with many faults and few redeeming points”
“it was not the power to be tranquil that had failed me, but the reason for tranquillity was no more.”
“When we are struck at without reason, we should strike back very hard; I am sure we should.”
“I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.”
4 Quotes describing Helen Burns, Chapters 5-10?
“she was qualified to give those who enjoyed the privilege of her conversation, a taste for far higher things”
“Helen’s large, mild, intelligent and benign looking forehead”
“the fury of which she was incapable had been burning in my soul all day”
“like a reflection from the aspect of an angel” -Jane describing the change in her face when she talks about God.
3 Quotes describing Brocklehurst, Chapters 5-10?
“looking longer, narrower and more rigid than ever”
“his absence was a relief to me”
“transacted”, “lectured”, “questioned” -Jane describing what he does when he comes to Lowood.
3 Quotes describing Miss Temple, Chapters 5-10?
“She looks tall, fair and shapely”
“her face, naturally pale as marble, appeared to be assuming also the coldness and fixity of that material” -her response to Brocklehurst.
1 Quote describing Bessie, Chapters 5-10?
“you are genteel enough; you look like a lady”
2 quotes about light and dark, chapters 5-10?
‘Rain, wind and darkness filled the air’
‘Helen Burns considered things by a light invisible to my eyes.’
3 quotes about fire?
‘the uncertain light from the hearth’
‘I felt their eyes directed like burning glasses against my scorched skin.’
‘to brand me as a bad child forever:’
3 quotes about cold, books 5-10?
‘it was bitter cold, and I dressed as well as I could for shivering,’
‘the cold and dimly-lit schoolroom’
‘all was wintry blight and brown decay’
Cold links to Jane’s lacking and constant desire for more.
2 quotes about rain/pathetic fallacy, books 5-10?
‘darkened by a drizzling yellow fog’
‘I could distinguish from the gleeful tumult within, the disconsolate moan of the wind outside
4 Quotes describing Bertha, books 11-27?
‘The clothed hyena rose up and stood tall on it’s hind feet’
‘intemperate and unchaste… gross, impure, depraved.’ -her madness described as a predatory nymphomania
‘the roll of red eyes’
‘the foul German spectre -the vampire’
4 quotes about Jane falling for Rochester, books 11-18?
‘I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because he had ceased to notice me.’
‘the ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint: the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him.’
‘sense would resist delirium: judgement would warn passion. Too feverish to rest,’ -After the fire chapter 15
‘He made me love him without looking at me.’ -chapter 17
4 quotes about Rochester, books 11-15?
‘he searched my face with eyes that I saw were dark, irate and piercing.’
‘I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination: but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape,’
‘The fire shone full on his face. I knew my traveller,’ -chapter 13 when she sees Rochester again for first time after road. use of possessive pronoun ‘my’
‘I am sure most people would have thought him an ugly man; yet there was so much unconscious pride in his port; so much ease in his demeanour… that, in looking at him one inevitable shared the indifference…and… put faith in the confidence’-about how he’s ugly but hot.
3 quotes about fire, books 11-18?
‘the fiery mosaic I had been piecing together’ -chapter 13, just before she meets Rochester properly for the first time.
‘his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.’
‘Tongues of flame darted around the bed’ -this is in chpt 15 just after the above, a little ironic.
2 quotes about Adele, books 11-27?
‘she is not bright, she has no talents: yet in a short time she has made much improvement.’
‘coquetry runs in her blood, blends with her brains, and seasons the marrow of her bones
5 quotes about Jane, chapters 11-18?
‘you, with your gravity, considerateness and caution were made to be the recipient of secrets’
‘I thought unaccountably of fairy tales, and had half a mind to demand whether you had bewitched my horse: I am not sure yet.’
‘I had more colour and more flesh, more life, more vivacity, because I had brighter hopes and keener enjoyments.’
‘I knew the pleasure of vexing and soothing him by turns; it was one I chiefly delighted in,’
‘“Portrait of a Governess, disconnected, poor and plain.”’ - the portrait she does of herself
3 quotes about pathetic fallacy, chapters 11-18?
“Something of daylight still lingered, and the moon was waxing bright”-first time she meets Rochester as the traveller.
“A heavy, oppressive sky seemed to press down upon me, as if the very heavens were conspiring against my happiness” (Chapter 18).
“The wind howled like a banshee, mirroring the turmoil within me”
Proto-feminist quote from chapter 12?
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do”
