Jane Eyre Quotes Flashcards

Direct quotes from the book

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1
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Who Jane is trapped in the Red Room with?

A

‘shut up in a room where there is a ghost till after dark’

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Hyperbolic description of the Red Room?

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‘no jail was ever more secure’

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3
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Jane tries to escape the Red Room through mental illness?

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‘oppressed, suffocated; endurance broke down’

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Jane begins to act like an animal after being trapped in the Red Room?

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‘like a mad cat’

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5
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Bertha acts like a vampire?

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she ‘sucked the blood’ from Mr. Mason

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Jane views Bertha as supernatural?

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‘the foul German spectre - the Vampyre’

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7
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Bertha’s ambiguous race?

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‘discoloured face’

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Lightning strikes the tree, symbolising the passionate relationship?

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‘half of it split away’

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9
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Rochester’s celestial telegram?

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‘Jane! Jane! Jane!’

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10
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The celestial telegram is undercut?

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‘this is not thy deception, nor thy witchcraft: it is the work of nature.’

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11
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Seen and not heard as a young girl?

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‘until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent’

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12
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How Mrs Reed view Jane?

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‘I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof’

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13
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Young Jane’s reaction to deceit?

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‘Deceit is not my fault’ I cried out in a savage, high voice’

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She is able to stand up to the school master?

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‘I mastered the rising hysteria’

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15
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Description of Lowood?

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‘Death was a frequent visitor’

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16
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Bertha Mason laughs?

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‘This was a demonic laugh - low, suppressed and deep’

17
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Jane hears Bertha’s cry?

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‘a savage, sharp, shrilly sound’

18
Q

Description of Bertha Mason?

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‘a mocking demon’
‘clothed hyena’

19
Q

When she revisits Mrs Redd?

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‘Are you Jane Eyre? … I declare she talked to me once like something mad, or like a fiend