Jane Eyre; helpful study deck Flashcards
Most famous quote of Jane Eyre?
‘Reader, I married him’ -syntax, relates to Gender
Jane’s rebuke of John?
‘You are like a murderer- you are like a slave driver- you are like the Roman Emperors!’ -relates back to class and the tyrannical powers and mental struggle of power.
Rochester and Malcolm comparison?
‘The contrast could not have been much better between a sleek gander and a fierce falcon: between a meek sheep and the rough-coated, keen-eyed dog, it’s guardian’ -related back to class with Rochester being the lord of the household but also romance as Jane only has eyes for Rochester
Purple Bertha quote?
‘I recognised well that purple face- those bloated features’ -relates to race as she is painted as a physical ‘other’ but also as Jane’s alter ego.
Mistress quote?
‘Hiring a Mistress is the next worse to buying a slave… to live familiarly with inferiors is degrading’ -relates to class, race and gender. Victorian attitude towards unmarried women and loose women.
First time Jane sees Rochester for real?
‘The fire shone full on his face. I knew my traveller,’ -relates to class and gender with possessive pronoun ‘my’, she should have no claim to him. Also the fire imagery denoting passion.
Crows and Raven quote?
‘Far better that crows and ravens… should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should prisoned in a workhouse coffin and moulder in a pauper’s grave.’ -relates to class
St. John River’s/Brocklehurst quote
‘It is seldom, indeed, an English face comes so near the antique models as his did.’ -relates to physiognomy but also the antithesis of Rochester. Parallel between Brocklehurst and St. John River’s rigid personalities.
Ferndean Manor quote?
‘so thick and dark grew the timber of the gloomy wood about it.’ -relates to class as Rochester’s surroundings reflect his status as a social outcast. Also negative pathetic fallacy always affecting Jane positively and her feeling most comfortable in wild surroundings?
Helen Burns Quote?
‘The fury of which she was incapable had been burning in my soul all day’ -Helen as Jane’s alter ego. How this side of Jane dims but also lights around Rochester as societal expectations force her to conform.
What is the page number of Jane’s time on the moors?
372, relates to class, chat 28
What is the page number of the women speech?
129-130, relates to gender, chapter 12
what is the page number of the bed fire?
172-177, relates to gender and romance, chpt 15
what is the page number of the red room?
17-19, relates to class and the gothic, chpt 2
what is the page number of the proposal?
292-295, the bird motifs, chpt 23
What is the page number for the description of Bertha?
336-337, relates to Race and Gender, chpt 26
what is the page number for Rochester trying to get her to stay?
349, chpt 27
what is the page numbers of Jane leaving St. John?
469-470, religion and Gender, chpt 34
What is the page numbers of Jane’s reunion with Rochester?
511-513, relates to romance, class and gender, chpt 37
what is the page number of Jane returning to Thornfield?
280-281
7 quotes about Jane in the five different settings?
Gateshead: ‘gave significance to rock standing up alone in a sea of billow of spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon’ -relates to class and negative pathetic fallacy/triadic structure.
Lowood: ‘Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant existence:’ -relates to class, direct address. Her time at Lowood good but she still feels like a side character in her own life.
Thornfield: ‘I did not like reentering Thornfield. To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation… an existence whose very privileges of security and ease I was becoming incapable of appreciating.’ -relates to class. This is her without Rochester foreshadowing it wasn’t the right place for her.
Her cottage: ‘a little room with white-washed walls and a sanded floor.’/’I felt desolate to a degree’ -relates to class but also negative pathetic fallacy. Not happy surrounded by imbeciles
Ferndean Manor: ‘I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth’/’I know no weariness of Edward’s society: he knows none of mine.’ -relates to class and gender. They are happier away from society. The wildness!
Quote of Gateshead description?
‘the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating’
Quote of Lowood description?
‘That forest-dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence;… crept into the Orphan Asylum, breathed typhus through its crowded schoolroom and dormitory’
Quote of Thornfield?
‘a gentleman’s manor-house, not a nobleman’s seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look’
Quote of the Moors description?
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us;”
Context to be used about Romanticism and the female gothic?
Charlotte Brontë grew up reading a lot of Byron and we see hints of Romanticism and the sublime in her time on the moors and any time she is outside. The female Gothic is also used here when we consider the theme of a shadow of a woman’s inner life and Porto-feminism.
Context about style of narrative?
Not an epistolary novel, but it reads like a personal communication. Her syntax may have been influenced by her time in Brussels learning German as she initiates the sentence with herself as the object, like the German grammatical structure.
Context about the ‘master’ and the sexuality behind it?
Reflects gender relations at the time and while she scorns the master in all other men (John Reed, St. John Rivers, Brocklehurst) she openly craves to melt into and become one with the master of Rochester and yet by the end of the story they are equal and in many ways, Jane is actually better as she now holds power over Rochester. The words master can also be seen as a sexually charged endearment to the Byronic Hero Rochester, backed by Brontë’s own use of it as an endearment of a letter to her school teacher writing ‘the only master I have ever had’.
Context on Marriage?
The first wedding wouldn’t have been accepted by society ever as a) Bertha, b) big age gap, c) wealth divide. The gap between them could be Bronte’s way of ensuring they can be joined together in marriage. There is also an idolisation of the marriage bed over the symbol of marriage to Christ when Jane refuses the mission’s trip and goes to Ferndean. Further emphasised when the novel ends on the marriage to Christ with his death.
Context surrounding Race and Gender language?
This idea that language surrounding race is very similar to the language gender
