Key Moments and Scenes Flashcards
When is the gypsy scene?
Chapter 19
When is the fire scene?
Chapter 15
‘___ of flame darted round the bed… in the midst of blaze and vapour… Mr Rochester lay stretched motionless’ (Chapter 15)
tongues
what is the fire scene? conflagration following Jane’s admission she cannot sleep ‘for thinking of his look’ shows fire is an…
externalised representation of the incipient passion tamely contained within Jane’s conscious admissions that his face was ‘the object I best liked to see’ and ‘his presence in a room more cheering than the brightest fire’
Chapter 26
wedding + meeting Bertha
Chapter 25
tearing of the veil
when is the red room?
chapter 2
what is the importance of the Red Room
its supercharged with a significance which haunts the rest of the book
‘Alas!… no ____ was ever more secure’ (Chapter 2)
jail
Gilbert and Gubar on the Red Room
‘it is a kind of patriarchal death-chamber’
what does the Red Room anticipate?
forms of later female imprisonment egg, her ‘boarding’ at Lowood, the restricted field to which she is ‘condemned’ and Bertha’s incarceration in the attic
‘if you don’t sit still, you must be ____ down’ (Chapter 2)
tied
G&G regard the RR as a paradigm not just of inner female space but of…
Jane’s anomalous position in society as an orphan and governess, her enclosure in stultifying roles and houses, her attempts to escape through flight, starvation and madness.
The Red Room, like other ‘female’ spaces, is a compellingly _____ space, which shuts out the larger world but encloses and dramatises an internal one
interior
Maynard on the RR
the drama is Oedipal, ‘Jane’s experience of this room is essentially one of alienation. What should be a centre of warmth and affection is a place of cold and oppression’
Elaine Showalter: the Red Room, with its
‘Freudian wealth of secret compartments, wardrobes, drawers, and jewel chest’ gives it ‘strong associations with the female sexuality’
According to Showalter, Jane’s ‘mad cat’ behaviour stresses…
‘the fleshly aspect of adult female sexuality’ and creates a link to Bertha
Sally Shuttleworth: the room’s deadly and bloody connotations, and the flow of blood which marks Jane’s entrance, associates her confinement with…
‘the onset of puberty’ and the passage into womanhood.
‘my head still ached and ___ with the blow and fall I had received’ (Chapter 2)
bled
Sally Shuttleworth sees Jane catching sight of herself in the looking glass as…. (Red Room)
a curious episode of ‘alienated’ dissociation after she experiences the ‘bewildering, contradictory and polluting effects of suppression within the female frame’
‘all looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality; and the strange little figure there gazing at me; with a white face and arms specking the glow, and _____ eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit’ (Chapter 2)
glittering
Helene Moglen on the Red Room
she sees the bedchamber and its sense of consecrated gloom, the colour of food, fire and passion, as a kind of birth chamber.
