Jane Eyre Quotes Flashcards
How is Jane presented as an outsider?
“there she is still, behind the window-curtain.”
How is Jane presented as independant?
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independant will”
How is Jane presented as strong willed?
“I don’t think, sir, you have a right to command me because you are older than I”
How is Jane often described by Mrs. Reed?
“naughty”, “passionate”, “liar”,
What does Jane offer Mrs Reed when she is dying?
“full and free forgiveness”
How is Jane presented as caring?
“she cannot help being mad” (when Rochester is unkind about Bertha)
How is Jane’s appearance described?
“if she were a nice, pretty child one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad”
What does St. John say Jane was formed for? How does this show him as a moral yet dominant man?
“you are formed for labour, not for love. A missionary’s wife you must - shall be. You shall be mine: I claim you”
When is Rchester’s inner most person shown?
“(Jane’s eyes) did not strike delight into my very inmost heart so for nothing”
How does Helen comfort Jane on her death bed?
“We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest.”
What does “Reader, I married him.” show about Jane’s development?
“I married him” highlights that Jane was in control and highlights that she has become more equal towards Rochester.
How is Rochester shown to be more emotionally developed than Jane?
“You never felt jealousy […] because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience”
How is Blanche Ingram’s prejudice presented to the lower classes?
“Mary and I have had, I should think, a dozen at least in our day; half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi - were they not, mama?”
How is Bertha presented as beast-like?
“She bit me. She worried me like a tigress, when Rochester got the knife from her…She sucked the blood: she said she’d drain my heart.”
How is Jane presented as a ‘good’ charcter?
“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way”
