Jane Eyre Quotes Flashcards

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Passion

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1) ‘I was conscious that a moments mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, ‘
2) ‘like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths. ‘
3) ‘Reckless and feverish, I wished the wind to howl more wildly, the gloom to deepen to darkness, and the confusion to rise to clamour.’
4) ‘picture of passion. ‘
5) ‘ laws and temptations are not for the times where there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour, ‘
6) ‘ ‘i am a hard woman - impossible to put off.’ ‘And then,’ he pursued, ‘i am cold: no fervour infects me.’ ‘Whereas I am hot, and fire dissolves ice.’ ‘

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Proto -feminism / gender

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1) ‘we are not to conform to nature. I wish my girls to be the children of Grace.’
2) ‘ ‘i am a hard woman - impossible to put off’ ‘
3) ‘ ‘women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do;’ ‘
4) ‘ ‘they suffer from too rigid a restraint,’ ‘

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Independence

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Class

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Religion

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Love

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Childhood

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