Jane Eyre quotes Flashcards
timing and structure of the answer
5 minutes to annotate
short introduction (bildungsroman)
20 minutes about the extract
(2/3 PEEs)
20 minutes about 2 other parts in the novel
(2/3 PEEs)
conclusion
(cover all three parts of the novel)
brief plot
- Jane is treated badly at Gateshead (Mrs Reed)
- she leaves to go to Lowood
- stays there 8 years total, 2 as a teacher
- starts off bad but improves after Mr Brocklehurst is replaced
- leaves to work for Rochester
- he eventually proposes to her, but as they are getting married she finds he has a wife locked in the attic
- she leaves to be a school mistress at Moor House
- declines St Johns proposal when she hears Rochester’s voice
- leaves to find and stay with him at Ferndean
Jane/Gateshead
‘I was a discord in Gateshead Hall’
she looks for a sense of belonging but isn’t accepted
Jane/Lowood
semantic field of cold as a metaphor for being frozen out of Gateshead, or for there being no welcoming warmth in Lowood
‘ready to perish with cold’
‘bitter cold’
Rochester/Thornfield
‘dungeon’
shows how he hates and feels confined by it
Jane/Thornfield
‘I have lived in it a full and delightful life’
Ferndean/Jane
‘dank and green were its decaying walls’
Later at Ferndean/Jane
‘sunny’ ‘cheerful’
St John
‘all white as a glacier’
Rochester
‘eyes I saw were dark, irate and piercing’
Mr Brocklehurst
‘black marble clergyman’
Leaving St John
(about her heart) ‘YOU do not want it’
beginning of novel
‘you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed’ (Bessie)
‘Poor Miss Jane is to be pitied, too’ (Bessie)
middle of novel
‘I experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers’
‘I am no bird; and no net ensnares me’
end of novel
‘I am an independent woman now’
(about Rochester) ‘caged eagle’
