Jane eyre quotes Flashcards
chapter 1-“a more ___ and ___ disposition , a more ___ and ___ manner - something ___, franker, more natural, sit were - she really must exclude me from ___ intended only for ___ happy little children”
SOCIETY/CLASS/FAMILY/INDEPENDENCE/CHILDHOOD
sociable, childlike, attractive, sprightly, lighter, privileges, contended.
mrs reed isn’t doing this to make Jane become a better child like she claims. irony and hypocrisy are clear in Brontes word choices of ‘sprightly’ and ‘lighter’ suggesting freedom when they actually mean conforming to society’s ideals. this is also shown in ‘contented, happy little children’ as they actually refer to doing as they’re told. quote creates an impression of children speaking their mind but ‘as it were’ has a sarcastic tone suggesting only true if socially acceptable.
chapter 2-“I was ___ that a ___ ___ has already ___ me ___ to ___ ___ and like any other ___ ___ I felt resolved in my ____ to go all lengths.”
SOCIETY/CLASS/INDEPENDENCE/PASSION/CHILDHOOD
conscious, moments, mutiny, rendered, liable, strange, penalties, rebel, slave, desperation
rebellious Jane believes her punishment is unfair as mrs reed feels as though she can do what she wants(strange penalties)-her desperate actions here are the first link to bertha. alliterative ‘moments mutiny’ shows how even a moment of freedom is crushed by mrs reed and ‘mutiny’ shows her natural independence.’rebel slave’ has connotations of unjust captivity, horrific mistreatment and violent and disturbing oppression.
chapter 4-“ my ___ began to ___ to ___ with the ___ sense of ___ ,of triumph, I ever felt. it seemed as if an ____ bond had ___ and that I had ____ out into unhoped for ___”
FAMILY/PASSION/INDEPENDENCE/RELIGION
soul, expand, exult, strangest, invisible, burst, struggled, liberty
after confronting mrs reed. alliterative ‘b’ sound mimics the breaking bond between Jane and mrs reed with ‘burst’ suggesting its gone forever.’freedom’ and ‘liberty’ are associated with independence and are shown to have arrived from a physical battle Jane has ‘struggled’ from.’exult’ and ‘triumph’ have connotations of victory Janes associations of her own independence is justified - not only has she won the battle but ‘soul’ suggests she has acted in a manner god would approve of. French rebellion-‘liberte, legalite, fraternite’
chapter 7-“we are not to ___ to ___. I wish these girls to be the ___ of ___: and why that___?I have again and again ____ that I ___ the hair too be arranged ___, modestly, ____”
CHILDHOOD/INDEPENDENCE/RELIGION/EDUCATION/GENDER
conform, nature, children, grace, abundance, intimated, desire, closely, plainly
girls hair is symbolic of the control brocklehurst and society can have over others with the tricolon emphasising this control is physical (closely), spiritual (modestly) and social (plainly). mr b stresses the need for the girls to conform to his ideals-curls aren’t apart of this. The girls must reject their natural instincts and follow ‘grace’ by living by religious rules. ‘Again and again’ reinforces the repression of the girls is never ending.
chapter 12-“___ feel just as men feel; they need ____ for their___ and a field for their ___ as much their ___ do; they ___ from too ___ a ___ too absolute a ___ precisely as men would___”
INDEPENDENCE/GENDER/SOCIETY/REASON
women, exercise, faculties, efforts, brothers, suffer, rigid, restraint, stagnation, suffer
Jane rejects the social conventions ‘separate spheres’ for men and women during the gender unequal victorian period. ‘they’ brings all women together as Jane speaks for all of women not just herself. imagery that shows a dynamic, energetic attitude eg ‘excercise’ shows their minds and feelings are almost physical- need exercise or they will waste away and ‘suffer’ her feelings are also portrayed in terms of physical confinement.
chapter 12- “he laid a ___ hand on my ___, and, leaning on me with some___ limped to his ___. having once caught the ____ he ___ it directly and __to his saddle”
LOVE/SOCIETY/INDEPENDENCE
heavy, shoulder, stress, horse ,bridle ,mastered , sprang
first meeting shows immediate bond to reader as Rochester physically leans on her. Alliteration of the deep ‘h’ sound is ‘heavy’ and burdensome mimicking the burden Rochester will have on her emotionally and physically. the image of him leaning on her with some stress foreshadows the pressure Jane will feel as their relationship develops. sibilance in ‘sprang to his saddle’ and phrases like ‘mastered it directly’ shows the vibrant personality of Rochester compared to the tedious St John rivers.
chapter 17-“I had not ___ to love him; the ___ knows I had wrought hard to ___ from my ___ the ___ of love there ___, and now, at the first ___ view of him, the spontaneously ___, green and ___”
LOVE/SOCIETY/CLASS/LOVE/PASSION/REASON
intended, reader, extirpate, soul, germs, detected, renewed, revived, strong
love in victorian society was a formal unemotional concept.Jane can’t control her natural urges and instantly loves Rochester upon seeing him again.Janes direct address shows the sincerity of her love as she doesn’t want to hide anything from the reader and can’t deny her love.Her love is not the foolish feeling of a young governess as she understands the social implications ‘wrought hard’ to resist these feelings but it stems from her ‘soul’ suggesting it is pure. The purity is reinforced by natural imagery bringing associations of the natural world and wholesome growth.
chapter 24-“he stood between me and every ___ of ____as an ___ intervenes between man and the ___ ___. I could not, in those days, see ___ for his ___: of whom I had made an ___”
LOVE/RELIGION/INDEPENDENCE
thought, religion, eclipse, broad sun, god, creature, idol
her sense of independence and control over her own destiny seems to have been broken. Rochester is like a god to her-blasphemous and. replacing god as the core of her life.He is more dominant than the sun which gives light to the world the adjective’broad ‘ stresses the scale of his power over her.he has surpassed all men including god.The image of Rochester as an idol has connotations of being worshipped and holiness. she has broken social rules and dismissed religion.
chapter 26-“ in the deep ___, at the farther end of the room, a ___ ran ____ and ___ … it ___, seemingly, on all fours, it ___ and ___ like some strange ___ animal: but it was covered with ___”
GENDER/SOCIETY/PASSION/INDEPENDENCE
shade, figure, backwards, forwards, grovelled, snatched, growled, wild, clothing
emphasises her madness but shows berthas humanity too linking to Jane and the oppression she has endured.’shade’ and ‘end’ are symbolic of the way society hides and traps those who won’t conform-jane in the red room. animalistic imagery reminds the reader pf Janes fight with John reed- she is referred to as a ‘mad cat’. the animal is ‘wild’ and a lowood Jane wants the wind to blow ‘wildly’. as she is covered in clothing it shows both Jane and bertha aren’t animals they re people who were cruelly mistreated and reacted physically against this injustice
chapter 38-“I am my ____ life as ___ as he is ___. no ___was ever nearer her____ than I am:ever more absolutely ___ of his ___ and ___ of his ___”
LOVE/SOCIETY/RELIGION
husbands, fully, mine, woman, mate, bone, bone, flesh, flesh
their marriage isn’t stereotypical and some readers see it as Jane losing her individuality by succumbing to marriage but it is clearly an equal and loving partnership of mind, body and soul. the sentence structure of the 1st sentence stresses the marriage is of equals-jane is his life ‘as he is mine’ not just sometimes but ‘fully’. ‘mate’ links them to natural world. repetition of ‘bone’ and ‘flesh’ creates an unbreakable bond between them- not so much as a partnership but as one physical being. they are each other’s life, spiritually, mentally and physically.
