Jane Eyre

Question 1

Gateshead hall

Answer 1

“a discord in Gateshead Hall”
“a tendency to deceit”
“Take her away to the red room and lock her in there”
“All the house belongs to me”

Question 2

Lowood school

Answer 2

• religious hypocrisy
• cruel treatment Mr B+Miss Scatch
  “Bread and cheese” temple
  “She neither wept nor blushed” Helen
  “Not to accustom them to habits of luxury and indulgence”
  “She married, removed with her husband”
  “I shall escape great sufferings”

Question 3

Thornfield hall

Answer 3

• sees prejudice against governes
• “betwixt and between”
• “While I breathe and think, I must love him”
• “demonaic laugh”

Question 4

Wedding crashers

Answer 4

“The veil, torn from top to bottom in two halves!”

- Eden like proposal / primarive presentation of Bertha

Question 5

Moor house

Answer 5

• casts herself into poverty
  “I should not like to belong to poor people”
• rivers family
• St. John wife as missionary to India

Question 6

Return to Thornfield/ferndean

Answer 6

“As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you”

Question 7

AO2 gateshead

Answer 7

“bullied and punished me”
“Mrs Reed was blind and deaf”
“Like a mad cat”
“I am glad you are no relation of mine”

Question 8

AO3 Gateshead

Answer 8

Sarah Ellis - “the women of England are deteriorating in their moral character”

Alexander - “the unhealed wound of motherlessness was made its mark on her life and her writings”

Question 9

AO5

Answer 9

Showalter - “Red is symbolic of passion which Jane must learn to suppress if she is to mature”
Bildungsroman

“womb in which Jane is reborn” - Forgacs

Question 10

AO2 lowood

Answer 10

“Introloper and an alien”
“Black pillar”
“I was asleep, and Helen was - dead”

Question 11

AO3 lowood

Answer 11

• truck treatment of her sister Maria at Cowan Bridge
• taken home ill and died
• brocklehurst ‘extreme Calvinism’ based on a Reverend Carus Wilson

Question 12

AO5 lowood

Answer 12

King - “present childhood as a potent image of vulnerability”

Question 13

AO2 Thornfield

Answer 13

"I desired liberty"
women "suffer from too rigid a restraint"
"A demoniac laugh"
"You have a right to command me"
"You saved my life"
"Disconnected, poor and plain"

Question 14

AO3 Thornfield

Answer 14

“Bronte had fallen in love with married French scholar, Constatin Heger, ‘the first man to treat her as a potential equal”

• took temporary post as governess - humiliating “inferior”
• Bro Branwell set fire to bed

Question 15

AO5 Thornfield

Answer 15

Alexander - once told her sisters “wrong to make all their heroines beautiful, and had declared she would show them ‘a heroine as plain, and as small as myself”

William Thacheray “a fire and fury raging in that little woman, a rage scorching her heart”

Question 16

AO2 Wedding crashers

Answer 16

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will”
“Future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world”
“What it was, whether beast or human being”

Question 17

AO3 wedding crashers

Answer 17

Harman - locked in attic for fear of what havoc she might cause (Branwell)

Critics described Bertha “too horrid” she said “insanity which may be called moral madness”

Question 18

AO5 Wedding crashers

Answer 18

Macpherson - “Bertha is that hungry angry solitary woman vengefully haunting the two lovers who dream of their escape”

Haman “novel is thoroughly ago this in its use of dark stairways, mad women, mysterious laughter, fire, exile”

Question 19

AO2 Moor house

Answer 19

“I thought she loved me, outcast as I was” (nature:no breeze)
“Like a lost and starving dog”
“If you are Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime”

Question 20

AO3 moor house

Answer 20

Fear of poverty - 1834 Poor Law led to establishment of workhouses

Question 21

AO3 proposal

Answer 21

March of 1839 - refused to marry Reverend Henry Nussey - should marry a “mild, pious lady” not a “romantic, eccentric-seeming person like herself”

Question 22

AO5 Rochester

Answer 22

“Her declaration that she is Rochester’s equal is at the heart of the novel” - Smith

Question 23

AO5

Quotes

Answer 23

Smith - “declaration that she is Rochester’s equal is at the heart of the novel”
Macpherson- “Bertha is a hungry angry solitary woman vengefully haunting the two lovers who dream of their escape”
Harman “wrong to make all their heroines beautiful: ‘a heroine as plain, and as small as myself’”
King - “present childhood as a potent image of vulnerability”
Showalrer - “red is symbolic of passion which Jane must learn to suppress if she is to mature”

Question 24

Key words

Answer 24

antagonist 
Authorial voice
Bildungsroman 
Byronic hero 
Denouement - end of: plot strands are drawn together, conflict resolved, questions answered
Hyperbole - exaggeration
Narrative - manner in which told
Pathetic fallacy - human feelings to nature
Personification
Simile - as _ as a : similar
Symbolism