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Jane Eyre : themes Flashcards

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Passion (disconnected from self)

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‘Strange little figure there gazing at me’

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Passion (debilitating)

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‘My heart beat thick, my head grew hot; a sound filled my ears, I was oppressed, suffocated: endurance broke down’

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Passion vs moral control

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‘Is it better to be a slave in a fool’s paradise .. suffocating with the bitterest tears of remorse’

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Passion (st john)

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‘I am cold, no fervour infects me’

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Passion (danger of lack)

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‘His large heart, weary of despotic constriction’

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Passion (fire vs ice imagery)

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‘If you are ice then I am fire’

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Passion vs Restraint

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‘conscience, turned tyrant, held passion by the throat’

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Love (importance of affection)

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‘When thus gentle, Bessie seemed to me the best, prettiest, kindest being in the world’

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Love (inherent connection)

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‘I feel akin to him - I understand the language of his countenance and demeanors’

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Love (beauty)

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‘Gratitude and many associations, all pleasurable made his face the object I best lived to see’

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Love (equality)

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“My bride is here… because my equal is here”

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Love (St John)

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‘It seemed I had found a brother, one I could be proud of, one I could love’

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Love (Rivers sisters)

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‘They had inspired me with genuine affection and admiration’

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Autonomy (bird imagery)

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‘I am no bird and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will’

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Autonomy (necessity)

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‘I desired liberty, for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer’

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Autonomy (power of free soul)

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‘Whatever I do with its cage I cannot get at it’

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Autonomy (wealth)

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‘It was a legacy of life, hope and enjoyment’

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Autonomy (self love)

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‘If all the world hated and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends’

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Religion (Brocklehurst)

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‘The dread judge’
‘straight, narrow, sable-clad shape’

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Religion (New testament christianity)

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‘The bible bid us return good for evil’

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Religion (st john)

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‘Pure lived, conscientious, zealous as he was- had not yet found the peace of God’

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Religion (Rochester’s redemption)

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‘I began to experience remorse, repentance; the wish for reconcilement to my Maker’

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Religion (jane’s revelation)

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‘I felt the might and strength of God’

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Class (high class)

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“Expression of almost insoportable haughtiness”
‘Furrowed with pride’

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Class (mrs fairfax)

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‘They are only servants, and one can’t converse with them on terms of equality: one must keep them at due distance, for fear of losing one’s authority

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Injustice (tyrant john)

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‘You are like a murderer—you are like a slave-driver

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Injustice (fear of John)

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‘Every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh in my bones shrank when he came near’

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Injustice (Jane’s anger)

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‘Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, forever condemned?’

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Gender roles (St john)

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“He had not imagined that a woman would dare to speak so to a man.”

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gender roles (bronte’s manifesto)

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‘women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts’

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Gender roles (equality)

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‘if we both stood at God’s feet, equal as we are!’

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Madness (dehumanised Bertha)

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‘Clothed hyena’

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Madness (violent passion)

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‘It snatched and growled like some strange wild animal’

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Forgiveness (Mrs Reed)

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‘To you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did’

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Forgiveness (Helen)

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‘Love your enemies’

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Entrapment
(women)

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“women suffer from too rigid a restraint”.

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Entrapment
(red room)

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‘a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars’

38
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Entrapment
(Lowood institution)

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‘an inmate of its walls’

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Gothic
(red room)

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‘All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality’

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Gothic
(thornfield, foreshadowing)

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‘like a corridor in some Bluebeard’s castle’

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Entrapment
(Rochester)

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‘I will myself put the diamond chain round your neck’

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