Jane Eyre Quotes Flashcards
Direct quotes from the book
Who Jane is trapped in the Red Room with?
‘shut up in a room where there is a ghost till after dark’
Hyperbolic description of the Red Room?
‘no jail was ever more secure’
Jane tries to escape the Red Room through mental illness?
‘oppressed, suffocated; endurance broke down’
Jane begins to act like an animal after being trapped in the Red Room?
‘like a mad cat’
Bertha acts like a vampire?
she ‘sucked the blood’ from Mr. Mason
Jane views Bertha as supernatural?
‘the foul German spectre - the Vampyre’
Bertha’s ambiguous race?
‘discoloured face’
Lightning strikes the tree, symbolising the passionate relationship?
‘half of it split away’
Rochester’s celestial telegram?
‘Jane! Jane! Jane!’
The celestial telegram is undercut?
‘this is not thy deception, nor thy witchcraft: it is the work of nature.’
Seen and not heard as a young girl?
‘until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent’
How Mrs Reed view Jane?
‘I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof’
Young Jane’s reaction to deceit?
‘Deceit is not my fault’ I cried out in a savage, high voice’
She is able to stand up to the school master?
‘I mastered the rising hysteria’
Description of Lowood?
‘Death was a frequent visitor’