Jane Eyre: Gender Roles

Question 1

What characters are associated with gender roles in Jane Eyre?

Answer 1

Jane, mr brocklehurst, Bertha mason, Rochester

Question 2

What were expectations for women in the Victorian society

Answer 2

To marry, have children, keep a nice household

Question 3

What were the only jobs suited towards women in the Victorian era?

Answer 3

School teacher, Governess, nurse, housekeeper

Question 4

G&G

Answer 4

Bertha is a political symbol of female rage against the patriarchy

Question 5

Angela Andersen

Answer 5

Jane has a strong sense of justice, traits not suitable for a Victorian girl

Question 6

Deborah Logan

Answer 6

Women who lack a place in engender fear in a culture who’s solidarity depends on a woman, having, and keeping their proper place.

Question 7

Jean Anderson

Answer 7

To be an angry woman in the 19th century is next door to insanity

Question 8

Women feel…

Answer 8

…just as men feel

Question 9

They suffer from….

Answer 9

… too rigid a restraint

Question 10

I am no…

Answer 10

… bird, no net ensnares me

Question 11

Women are…

Answer 11

… supposed to be very calm

Question 12

I claim you…

Answer 12

… we must be married

Question 13

You shall…

Answer 13

… become mrs Rochester

Question 14

Do you think…

Answer 14

… I am an automaton ? A machine without feelings

Question 15

Don’t mention…

Answer 15

… governesses, the word makes me nervous.

Question 16

Your…

Answer 16

…Neighbour, your nurse, your housekeeper