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Jane Eyre Flashcards

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Jane Eyre

What book does Jane read at the beginning?

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Bewick’s History of British Birds

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Jane Eyre

What’s the beginning of Chapter 11?

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A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw the curtain this time, reader – you must see…

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A new chapter in a novel…

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is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw the curtain this time, reader – you must see…

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What genre is Jane Eyre?

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Front page calls it an autobiography.
Bildungsroman
Fiction novel
Gothic mode

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What quote shows Jane openly declaring the book as a fiction, whilst burying it in realist detail?

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A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw the curtain this time, reader – you must see…

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What’s the purpose of Jane Eyre drawing attention to itself as a fiction?

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw the curtain this time, reader – you must see…

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Calling the reader to look for literary devices such as symbolism, mirroring, figures.

A challenge for the reader not to get wholly absorbed into the story.

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In what way does Marx’ Communist Manifesto clash with the bildungsroman genre?

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Bildungsroman is about someone learning to succeed in society, rather than breaking the rules.

Jane Eyre rises in class through proper means. Not by marrying Rochester while he was married to Bertha.

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What quote shows Jane as an animal?

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‘She is like a mad cat’

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Jane ‘is like a mad…’

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cat

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What quote is used to describe the bed in the red-room?

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‘the vacant majesty of the bed and room’

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What quote is used to describe the bed in Bertha’s attic?

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‘great bed and pictorial chamber’

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Jane and Bertha mirroring.
What quote pairs with the ‘great bed and pictorial chamber’ of Bertha’s room?

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‘the vacant majesty of the bed and room’

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What quote pairs with the red-room’s ‘vacant majesty of the bed and room’?

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‘great bed and pictorial chamber’

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What quote pairs with ‘She is like a mad cat … you must be tied down.’

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‘he bound her to a chair’

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What quote pairs with ‘he bound her to a chair’? (About Bertha)

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‘She is like a mad cat … you must be tied down.’

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Quote that shows Bertha mirroring Jane as a bride?

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‘It removed my veil from its gaunt head’

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What quote shows Bertha’s furthest stage of objectification by Jane?

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‘It removed my veil from its gaunt head’

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What quote shows Bertha as an animal?

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‘What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight tell’

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About Bertha

What it was, whether beast…

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or human being, one could not, at first tell.

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Quote about Bertha’s humanness.

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What it was, whether beast of human being, one could not, at first tell

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Gothic

I dreamt…

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that Thornfield was a dreary ruin.

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In his allegory for his romance with Jane, what does Rochester call her?

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‘It was a fairy’

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Quote about the hall as a ruin

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‘I dreamt … that Thornfield was a dreary ruin’

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What four names does Jane say Rochester called her?

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“provoking puppet,” “malicious elf,” “sprite,” “changeling”

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“Provoking puppet,” ______, “sprite,” ________.

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malicious elf

changeling

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_______, “malicious elf,” ________, “changeling”.

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Provoking puppet

sprite

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Quote from Sandra Gilbert about the mirroring between Bertha and Jane.

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Bertha not only acts for Jane, she also acts like Jane.

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Which critic said, ‘Bertha not only acts for Jane, she also acts like Jane’?

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Sandra Gilbert

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What are three key features of the Female Gothic (Ellen Moers)?

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Incarceration
Orphans
Critiquing the patriarch

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JE

“Am I a servant?”…

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“No; you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep.”

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What is the significance of the quote: ‘“Am I a servant?” / “No; you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep.”

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Not only Jane’s struggle for identity which lasts throughout the book. Also her struggle between servant and non-servant which is later present in her role as governess.

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JE

A quote about Jane as Mrs Rochester?

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“Mrs Rochester! She did not exist: she would not be born till to-morrow

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JE

Rochester ownership of Jane?

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And this is what I wished to have … this young girl who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell

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JE

How does Jane describe herself when she’s looking in the mirror as a child?

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I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp

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JE

Quote about Jane at the mouth of hell

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“And this is what I wished to have … this young girl who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell”

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JE

What is it that spectralizes (James Kincaid) Jane, more than all the times she’s called ‘fairy’, ‘elf’ or ‘sprite’?

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The act of writing. Where her retrospective voice haunts the narrative and the reader.

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JE

Three part quote about Jane as a thing

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A ‘heterogenous thing … a useless thing … a noxious thing’.

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What does Jane thing about her environment when she looks in the red-room’s mirror?

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All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality

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Quote where Jane calls the mirror a visionary hollow.

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All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality.

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Quote that shows the mirror provides a material gas between reality and the mind. Themes of perception.

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All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality.

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JE

A _______ thing, … a _______ thing, … a noxious thing.

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A heterogenous thing, … a useless thing,

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JE
(In the mirror)
I thought it like…

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one of those tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp.

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JE

What’s the significance of Jane as a ghostly, fairy-tale figure?

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Search for identity.
Looking to materialise herself in reality.
Position as a governess.

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JE

What are Jane’s cousins called?

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The Rivers.

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JE

Name the main four places (in order) where Jane lives.

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Gateshead hall, Lowood, Thornfield, Moor house

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JE

What is the name of the Reed’s house?

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Gateshead hall

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What is the name of the Rivers’ house?

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Moor house

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What is the name of the school where Jane went?

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Lowood

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Maria Edgeworth (1798) quote.

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It is the worst thing in the world to leave children with servants.

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JE

What image did Maria Edgeworth (1798) create about governesses?

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She showed them as dangerous figures that could teach children manners, language and habits of the lower classes.

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JE

What year did Anna Jameson write?

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1846

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JE

Which critic wrote in 1846?

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Anna Jameson

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What year did Maria Edgeworth write that ‘it is the most dangerous thing in the world to leave children with servants’?

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1798

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JE

Who (and in what year) wrote ‘one of the most artificial … is the existence of a class of women whom we style as governesses’.

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Anna Jameson, 1846

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JE

What year was Jane Eyre published?

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1847

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JE

Anna Jameson, 1846: ‘one of the most artificial …

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is the existence of a class of women whom we style as governesses.’

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JE

Maria Edgeworth (1798), ‘it is one of the…

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most dangerous things in the world to leave children with servants.

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JE

What did Westcott say about ghosts and in what year?

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1851

due to either purely natural causes or delusions of the mind

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JE

Who said that ghosts are ‘due to either purely natural causes or delusions of the mind’?

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Westcott in 1851

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JE

Westcott said ghosts are ‘due to either purely natural causes or delusions of the mind’, but what is the other opinion, who said it and when.

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all the experts … know that they do exist.

Stead, 1897

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JE

Stead quote about ghosts. (And year)

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All the experts … know that they do exist.

1897

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JE

What is the relevance of ghosts to Jane Eyre? (Especially in relation to her as a governess.)

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Jane combines Edgeworth’s dangerous governess idea and the gothic idea of the supernatural (sprite, elf, changeling) to illuminate the position of the governess and how it impacts her identity. She is the figure that haunts the house, not wholly belonging in any plane of society.

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Who said that ‘all the experts … know that they [ghosts] exist’?

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Stead, 1897

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Who said that feminist critics question even the possibility of a ‘representative bildungsroman in the 19th century novel’?

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Sarah Maier

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Critic material

Sally Shuttleworth: ‘____________ writings on childhood were ____________ in tandem with the ______________________.’

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‘Psychiatric writings on childhood were emerging in tandem with the great Victorian novels on childhood.’

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Jane Eyre

What did Elizabeth Rigby say about Jane Eyre?

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It ‘violated every code, human or divine’

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