Jane Eyre Quotes Flashcards
How religion makes them feel worse
How religion is not associated with warmth
The coldness of Lowood reflects their poor treatment
CHAPTER 7
We set off cold and arrived at church colder (PATHETIC FALLACY)
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
How we longed for the light and heat of a blazing fire.
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
‘She went up to London last winter with her mama.’
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
I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste. (METAPHORIC/ABSTRACT NOUN)
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
I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp,
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.
It was bitter cold, and I dressed as well as I could for shivering. (PATHETIC FALLACY)
What Mr Brocklehurst says
Completely hypocrytical as his daughters wear ‘beaver hats’ and ‘ostrich feathers’
CHAPTER 4
‘Humility is a Christian grace’
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
True, reader; and I knew and felt this.
CHAPTER 5
LOVE/RELIGION
‘Maria’ derived from Christ’s mother and temple linked with a church and protection
A mother figure
Maria Temple, as I later saw her name written in a prayer book… (BIBLICAL ALLUSION)
CHAPTER 9 RELIGION/HELEN So accepting of death Looks after Jane Links to Christ dying for the people and wanting an afterlife
‘By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings’ (BIBLICAL ALLUSION)
Shows how alone Jane is/ a misfit at Gateshead Hall
CHAPTER 2
I was a discord at Gateshead Hall. (METAPHOR)(SHORT SENTENCE)
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.
…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)
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
…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)
Negative view towards the poor
This later changes
Jane is pretensious
CHAPTER 3
…poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.
CHAPTER 5 HELEN/STOICISM Jesus-like Accepts punishment Self-sacrificing
I expected she would show signs of great distress; but she neither wept nor blushed. (CONTRAST WITH JANE)
CHAPTER 2 RELIGION fear associated with religion Connects to Mr B Not like Helen We feel sorry Miss Abbott Vengeful, Old Testament
‘God will punish her: He might strike her dead in the midst of her tantrums,’
CHAPTER 2 IDENTITY/CONFINEMENT Feels tormented and trapped Melodramatic Link to Bertha Oppressive/unjust captivity
and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, (SIMILE)
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
Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings.
CHAPTER 5
A new start at Lowood - beginning of a new chapter in life. Jane is going into adolescence/maturing.
Through this door I passed with my new guide. (METAPHOR)
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
I would not now have exchanged Lowood with its privations and Gateshead with its daily luxuries.
CHAPTER 9
The impact of Miss Temple on Jane and how she will possess these qualities GROWING UP
I had imbibed from her much of her nature; more harmonious thoughts…
CHAPTER 2
Coldness in Red Room reflects how Jane is upset and alone
The room was chill; because it seldom had a fire. (PATHETIC FALLACY)
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
I thought so too; and, my self esteem being wounded by the false charge, I answered promptly.
CHAPTER 9
GOTHIC
Typhus increases with temperature/heat/happiness
Frees the un-ill girls
While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood and death it’s frequent visitor. (PERSONIFICATION)
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
‘They will have a great deal of money and you will have none’ (JUXTAPOSITION/IRONY)
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
What a great nose! And what a mouth! And what large, prominent teeth! (LITERARY ALLUSION)
CHAPTER 8 RELIGION/HELEN BURNS Accepting of death We feel a sense of pathos Link to John rivers All about afterlife, unlike Mr B
‘…and death is so certain an entrance to happiness - to glory?’
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
‘I wish these girls to be the children of Grace: and why that abundance?’
CHAPTER 1
A pseudoscience / physiognomy
Belief that appearance of John Reed reflects his personality
Jane still believed this even as an adult
…large and stout for his age, with dingy and unwholesome skin.
Mr Brocklehurst He is unmoving He is religious Biblical allusion Old foundations of a church, showing his views are olden. RELIGION EVANGELICALS CHAPTER 4
I looked up at - a black pillar! (METAPHOR)
A stony stranger (SIBILANCE)
