Jane Eyre Quotes Flashcards
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT:
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
“I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”
“I am not a dependent; I am not a passive, helpless being.”
“Do you think I am an automaton?—a machine without feelings? I am not an angel, I am a woman.”
“I will not be a passive, obedient creature. I will speak, and I will act.”
“Women feel just as men feel”
“It is my spirit that addresses your spirit…equal—as we are!””
PATRIARCHY:
“Women are supposed to be more careful, more delicate, more submissive than men.”
“I am not a passive, obedient creature.”
“‘You are like a beggar who takes his alms, and then throws them away in disdain.’”
“‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself.’”
“I am not a man’s possession, to be traded, sold, or bargained for.”
“My pet lamb”
“I will not be your English Celine Varens”
VIOLENCE:
“Jane! Will you hear reason? If not I’ll try violence”
“You rat”
“She sucked my blood: she said she’d drain my heart”
“Snarling, snatching sound”
“Bullied and punished me”
“His grip was painful”
“I was struck”, “I was dragged back”
“Savage face”, “bloodshot eyes”, “fiery eyes”
SETTINGS:
“I felt no longer outcast, vagrant and disowned”
“I devoured it ravenously”
“Burning with the light of a red jewel and furnace flame”
“A crack, a crash and a close rattling peal”
“Great horse chestnut …half of it split away”
“I again nestled to the breast of the hill”
“Iron sky of winter, stiffened in frost, shrouded with snow!”
“The wind roared in the laurel walk”
“Crimson cloth”, “red”, “mahogany”
HOME:
“Her friendship and society had been my continual solace”
“A glow of grateful joy”
“I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image”
“This was wealth indeed!—wealth to the heart!”
“To my long home - my last home”
DECEIT:
“I am not deceitful…I declare I do not love you”
“People think you are good but you are bad and hard hearted”
“You know now that I had but a hideous demon”
“This was cowardly, I should have appealed to your nobleness and magnanimity”
“I was wrong to attempt to deceive you”
“You are deceitful sir”
“Blood crept cold through my veins”
IDENTITY:
“I am not a bird and no net ensnares me”
“‘I am not an angel … and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!”
“An ape in a harlequin’s jacket”
“Wicked and cruel boy! You are like a murderer!”
“Are you warm my darling?”
“I wish to be a better man than I have been, than I am”
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless,
RELIGION:
“ To take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
“You are too impulsive, too vehement.”
“As an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun.”
“You shall be mine: I claim you”
“Prayed in my way…effective in its own fashion”
“I have no relative but the universal mother nature”
“Love your enemies…bless them that curse you”
“God is my father. God is my friend”
LOVE/PASSION:
“My hand, my heart and a share of all my possessions”
“Reader, I married him”
“Conscience turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly”
“Something singular about you - quaint, quiet, grave and simple”
Repetition of “you torture me!”
“Is this my pale little elf?”
“Tongues of flame darted around the bed”
“My cherished preserver”
CLASS:
“Come this way: take your time”
“My equal is here and my likeness Jane”
“Jewels for Jane Eyre sounds unnatural and strange”
“I sank on the wet doorstep: I groaned - I wrung my hands - I wept in utter anguish”
“They were splendidly attired in velvet, silk, and furs.”
“For the world’s judgment—I wash my hands thereof.”
“You are a dependent”
MARRIAGE:
“Hanging its black and scarlet visage over the nest of my dove”
“Will I not guard and cherish and solace her?”
“All my heart is yours, sir; it belongs to you”
“My bride is here…because my equal is here”
“Caged eagle”
“Arrested”, “imprisoned”
