Jane Eyre Quotes

Question 1

How religion makes them feel worse
How religion is not associated with warmth
The coldness of Lowood reflects their poor treatment
CHAPTER 7

Answer 1

We set off cold and arrived at church colder (PATHETIC FALLACY)

Question 2

Longing to grow up and explor sexualitoes
Repressed from being women
Older Children dress the same as the youngest
Shown through wanting fire
CHAPTER 7

Answer 2

How we longed for the light and heat of a blazing fire.

Question 3

CHAPTER 10
MARRIAGE
shows how Jane still differs from Georgiana
She is a debutant, runs away, is taken back
Has privileges that Jane does not

Answer 3

‘She went up to London last winter with her mama.’

Question 4

CHAPTER 3
SOCIAL CLASS
‘Caste’ instead of ‘class’ shows the taboo in crossing that line
Freedom is an ABSTRACT NOUN which you have to buy
To buy yourself out of imprisonment

Answer 4

I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste. (METAPHORIC/ABSTRACT NOUN)

Question 5

CHAPTER 2
GOTHIC/ SUPERSTITION/IDENTITY
believes in ballads she’s heard/she is a Romantic
The Gothic Genre has supernatural creatures and women as victims
Reality is confused with illusions in the midst of her intense emotions

Answer 5

I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp,

Question 6

CHAPTER 5
How Lowood will being darkness and a bit of gothic elements.. FORESHADOWING
Perhaps Jane is preparing for this from what she heard from Mr B and Mrs Reed.

Answer 6

It was bitter cold, and I dressed as well as I could for shivering. (PATHETIC FALLACY)

Question 7

What Mr Brocklehurst says
Completely hypocrytical as his daughters wear ‘beaver hats’ and ‘ostrich feathers’
CHAPTER 4

Answer 7

‘Humility is a Christian grace’

Question 8

CHAPTER 9
FIRST DIRECT ADDRESS
Only happens at very significant moments
Helen’s death is near
GROWING UP and understanding and facing these difficult concepts
Bildungsroman

Answer 8

True, reader; and I knew and felt this.

Question 9

CHAPTER 5
LOVE/RELIGION
‘Maria’ derived from Christ’s mother and temple linked with a church and protection
A mother figure

Answer 9

Maria Temple, as I later saw her name written in a prayer book… (BIBLICAL ALLUSION)

Question 10

CHAPTER 9
RELIGION/HELEN
So accepting of death
Looks after Jane
Links to Christ dying for the people and wanting an afterlife

Answer 10

‘By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings’ (BIBLICAL ALLUSION)

Question 11

Shows how alone Jane is/ a misfit at Gateshead Hall

CHAPTER 2

Answer 11

I was a discord at Gateshead Hall. (METAPHOR)(SHORT SENTENCE)

Question 12

CHAPTER 1
SOCIAL CLASS/LOVE/IDENTITY
‘As it were’ is mocking as it shows that even if you possess these qualities, social class matters
‘Lighter’ implies the girls will be free, but they are really confirming to societies ideals
Identity as an outsider, we feel bad for her.

Answer 12

…something lighter, franker, more natural as it were - she really must exclude me from all privileges intended only for the contented, happy little children. (IRONY)

Question 13

CHAPTER 10
SOCIAL CLASS
Realistic
Just wants servitude
REPETITION of ‘liberty’ -links to French Revolution.. Jane seeks equality and freedom and receives that after a long time of conflict within herself!
Chartism (1879 - French Revolution when the working class fought for freedom) and Rebellion

Answer 13

…it is not like such words as Liberty, Excitement, Enjoyment - delightful sounds truly; but no more than sounds for me.. (ADJECTIVES/ALLUSION TO FRENCH REVOLUTION)

Question 14

Negative view towards the poor
This later changes
Jane is pretensious
CHAPTER 3

Answer 14

…poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.

Question 15

CHAPTER 5
HELEN/STOICISM
Jesus-like
Accepts punishment
Self-sacrificing

Answer 15

I expected she would show signs of great distress; but she neither wept nor blushed. (CONTRAST WITH JANE)

Question 16

CHAPTER 2
RELIGION
fear associated with religion
Connects to Mr B
Not like Helen
We feel sorry
Miss Abbott 
Vengeful, Old Testament

Answer 16

‘God will punish her: He might strike her dead in the midst of her tantrums,’

Question 17

CHAPTER 2
IDENTITY/CONFINEMENT 
Feels tormented and trapped
Melodramatic
Link to Bertha
Oppressive/unjust captivity

Answer 17

and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, (SIMILE)

Question 18

Jane growing up and understanding that she had been affected by the situation which she could not articulate.
Brontë going against the norm at the time to disregard children unless they are of the gentry.
CHAPTER 3

Answer 18

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings.

Question 19

CHAPTER 5

A new start at Lowood - beginning of a new chapter in life. Jane is going into adolescence/maturing.

Answer 19

Through this door I passed with my new guide. (METAPHOR)

Question 20

CHAPTE 8
GROWING UP
Looking towards future
Lowood is morally educational and adult Jane cherishes what she learnt from Miss T and Helen
Represented by change in season 
Comparison of GH and L

Answer 20

I would not now have exchanged Lowood with its privations and Gateshead with its daily luxuries.

Question 21

CHAPTER 9

The impact of Miss Temple on Jane and how she will possess these qualities GROWING UP

Answer 21

I had imbibed from her much of her nature; more harmonious thoughts…

Question 22

CHAPTER 2

Coldness in Red Room reflects how Jane is upset and alone

Answer 22

The room was chill; because it seldom had a fire. (PATHETIC FALLACY)

Question 23

Self identity
Scared of Mrs Reed ruining reputation
Melo dramatic - goes against Christian morals as she rebels and possesses ‘the sin of pride’, a sign of mans fallen nature.
CHAPTER 3

Answer 23

I thought so too; and, my self esteem being wounded by the false charge, I answered promptly.

Question 24

CHAPTER 9
GOTHIC
Typhus increases with temperature/heat/happiness
Frees the un-ill girls

Answer 24

While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood and death it’s frequent visitor. (PERSONIFICATION)

Question 25

CHAPTER 2
SOCIAL CLASS
ironic as Jane is very wealthy in the end
Told this by Miss Abbott
Large gap between poor and rich
It is seen as certain to happen, no way out of the poverty cycle

Answer 25

‘They will have a great deal of money and you will have none’ (JUXTAPOSITION/IRONY)

Question 26

Little Red Riding Hood
Shows the fairytale 
The big bad wolf is Mr Brocklehurst
The wolf manipulated Red Riding Hood and everyone else who later visited the cottage like Mr B does 
CHAPTER 4

Answer 26

What a great nose! And what a mouth! And what large, prominent teeth! (LITERARY ALLUSION)

Question 27

CHAPTER 8
RELIGION/HELEN BURNS
Accepting of death
We feel a sense of pathos 
Link to John rivers
All about afterlife, unlike Mr B

Answer 27

‘…and death is so certain an entrance to happiness - to glory?’

Question 28

CHAPTER 7
RELIGION/MR B.
Hypocrisy 
Repressed the girls by cutting their hair short whilst his daughters have French Curls
Mr B has a fear of femininity

Answer 28

‘I wish these girls to be the children of Grace: and why that abundance?’

Question 29

CHAPTER 1
A pseudoscience / physiognomy
Belief that appearance of John Reed reflects his personality
Jane still believed this even as an adult

Answer 29

…large and stout for his age, with dingy and unwholesome skin.

Question 30

Mr Brocklehurst
 He is unmoving 
He is religious 
Biblical allusion 
Old foundations of a church, showing his views are olden.
RELIGION EVANGELICALS 
CHAPTER 4

Answer 30

I looked up at - a black pillar! (METAPHOR)

A stony stranger (SIBILANCE)