Jane Eyre : characters

Question 1

Jane
(passion)

Answer 1

‘My soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt’

Question 2

Jane
(need for autonomy)

Answer 2

‘I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer’

Question 3

Rochester
(dominating)

Answer 3

‘Whatever I do with its cage I cannot get at it’

Question 4

Rochester
(powerful, dangerous)

Answer 4

‘He stood between me and every thought of religion’

Question 5

Rochester
(passion)

Answer 5

‘Great dark eyes’
‘flaming glance’

Question 6

Rochester
(spiritual redemption)

Answer 6

‘I began to experience remorse, repentance; the wish for reconcilement to my Maker’

Question 7

St John
(passivity)

Answer 7

‘I am cold, no fervour infects me’

Question 8

St John
(restraining passion)

Answer 8

‘I saw his solemn eye melt with sudden fire’

Question 9

St John
(religion)

Answer 9

‘pure-lived, conscientious, zealous as he was – had not yet found that peace of God’

Question 10

Helen
(influence on Jane)

Answer 10

‘mindful of Helen’s warnings against the indulgence of resentment’

Question 11

Helen
(trust in God)

Answer 11

‘By dying young I shall escape great sufferings… I believe; I have faith; I am going to God’

Question 12

John Reed
(tyrannical evil)

Answer 12

‘‘He twisted the necks of the pigeons, killed the pea-chicks … broke the buds off the choicest plants’

Question 13

John Reed
(victimising jane)

Answer 13

‘Every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh in my bones shrank when he came near’

Question 14

Brocklehurst
(symbol of fire and brimstone christianity)

Answer 14

‘The straight, narrow, sable-clad shape’

Question 15

Brocklehurst
(irony, hypocrisy)

Answer 15

‘The dread judge’

Question 16

Mrs Reed
(cruelty, lack of empathy)

Answer 16

‘Her eye of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine’

Question 17

Mrs Reed
(hypocrisy and cruelty Victorian standards - romantic ideas)

Answer 17

(Jane must have) ‘a more sociable and child-like disposition’

Question 18

Bessie
(affection)

Answer 18

‘When thus gentle, Bessie seemed to me the best, prettiest, kindest being in the world’

Question 19

Ms Temple
(maternal affection)

Answer 19

‘She kissed me … keeping me at her side’

Question 20

Miss Temple
(teaches justice)

Answer 20

‘We chall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child’

Question 21

Bertha
(dehumanised)

Answer 21

‘clothed hyena’

Question 22

Bertha
(danger of female power)

Answer 22

‘The vampyre’

Question 23

Bertha
(manipulator)

Answer 23

‘She flattered me and lavishly displayed for my pleasure all her charms and accomplishments’

Question 24

Blanche Ingram
(shallow character)

Answer 24

‘she was very showy, but she was not genuine’