Jane Eyre Flashcards
Rebellion (bird)
“I am not bird; and no net ensnares me ; I am a few human being with an independent will , which I now exert to leave you”
Rebellion (aunt reed)
“I will never come to see you when I’m grown up and if anyone asks me how I liked you and how you treated me I will say the very thought of you makes me sick and that you treated me with miserable cruelty”
Self discovery (eye)
“There was that peculiar eye unique nothing could melt” - “her eye of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine” - metaphor
Self discovery( Jane being a fool)
“That a greater fool than Jane eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never suspected her self on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.”
Self discovery (Danae)
“If I had ever so small an independence; I never can bear being dressed like a doll by Mr Rochester , or sitting like a second Danae”
Outsiders (window)
“I retired to a window seat” - “mounted to the window seat”
Outcast(governesses)
“Whole tribe”
Outcast(birds)
“Of a flock of white plumy birds”
“I am no bird and no net ensnares me…”
Confinement(Bertha is locked up)
Bertha is locked up and Jane feels trapped and imprisoned when Rochester tries to shower her in riches - Danae