Jane Eyre Flashcards
What happened while at Jane was at Lowood School?
At breakfast the porridge is burnt so Miss Temple served the girls bread and cheese.
Miss Scatcherd shames and flogs Burns for being a “dirty, disagreeable girl”.
Brocklehurst visits and calls Jane a liar. Burns comforts her.
Jane and Burns spend an evening in Miss Temple’s room.
Girls start becoming sick and Helen dies. “I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.”
Jane stays 8 more years; 6 learning, 2 teaching.
After Miss Temple leaves, Jane follows. “I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon”
What happens when Jane is at Gateshead Hall?
Jane gets sent to “the red-room”. She thinks it’s haunted and passes out.
Mr Lloyd asks her if she would like to leave and suggests school.
Mr Brocklehurst visits and Mrs Reed convinces him that “the Evil One” possesses her.
Jane tells Mrs Reed that “the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty.”
Bessie and Jane become friends before she leaves for Lowood. “Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
What does Jane think when she returns to Rochester?
“extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong!”- happy positive imagery, “germs”= infected and negative, ! Overjoyed
How does Bronte present a negative view of love?
“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt… never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love”
What quotes show Jane’s reluctance to love Rochester?
“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to”
“Mr Rochester might probably win that noble lady’s love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?”
“though rank and wealth sever us widely”
“I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons; because her rank and connexions suited him; I felt he had not given her his love”
What quotes show Jane and Rochester’s connection?
“I feel akin to him,- I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.”
“My bride is here… because my equal is here, and my likeness.”
How does Jane reflect her want to be free?
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
What is Jane’s reaction to St John’s proposal?
“Can I receive form him the bridal ring, endure all the forms of love (which I doubt he would scrupulously observe) and know that the spirit was quite absent?”
How does Jane describe Rochester at the end of the novel?
“And was Mr Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I liked best to see, his presence ins room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”
What is Blanche’s view of marriage?
“Whenever I marry… I am resolved my husband shall not be a rival, but a foil to me.”
