Jane Eyre Flashcards
Gateshead hall
“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”
Lowood school
- 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”
Thornfield hall
- sees prejudice against governes
- “betwixt and between”
- “While I breathe and think, I must love him”
- “demonaic laugh”
Wedding crashers
“The veil, torn from top to bottom in two halves!”
- Eden like proposal / primarive presentation of Bertha
Moor house
- casts herself into poverty
“I should not like to belong to poor people” - rivers family
- St. John wife as missionary to India
Return to Thornfield/ferndean
“As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you”
AO2 gateshead
“bullied and punished me”
“Mrs Reed was blind and deaf”
“Like a mad cat”
“I am glad you are no relation of mine”
AO3 Gateshead
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”
AO5
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
AO2 lowood
“Introloper and an alien”
“Black pillar”
“I was asleep, and Helen was - dead”
AO3 lowood
- truck treatment of her sister Maria at Cowan Bridge
- taken home ill and died
- brocklehurst ‘extreme Calvinism’ based on a Reverend Carus Wilson
AO5 lowood
King - “present childhood as a potent image of vulnerability”
AO2 Thornfield
"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"
AO3 Thornfield
“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
AO5 Thornfield
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”
AO2 Wedding crashers
“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”
AO3 wedding crashers
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”
AO5 Wedding crashers
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”
AO2 Moor house
“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”
AO3 moor house
Fear of poverty - 1834 Poor Law led to establishment of workhouses
AO3 proposal
March of 1839 - refused to marry Reverend Henry Nussey - should marry a “mild, pious lady” not a “romantic, eccentric-seeming person like herself”
AO5 Rochester
“Her declaration that she is Rochester’s equal is at the heart of the novel” - Smith
AO5
Quotes
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”
Key words
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
