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Love and Marriage Flashcards

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Quote about Jane and Rochester being ‘one’ that forshadows Rochester’s later mutilation

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‘You shall yourself pluck out your right eye, yourself cut off your right hand: your heart shall be the victim’

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‘You shall yourself pluck out your right eye, yourself cut off your right hand: your heart shall be the victim’

What did Stevie Davis have to say about this?

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Stevie Davis: alludes to Christ’s sermon on the Mount condemning sexual fantasy - mirrors Rochester’s later mutilation - punishment. Extends imperative to the heart, as the seat of the affections and agent of life itself (ROMANTICISM)

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Quote that dehumanises Bertha in context of marriage

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‘That is my wife’
Italics of the impersonal pronoun emphasises Rochster’s dehumanised view of Bertha

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‘That is my wife’
Analysis?

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Italics of the impersonal pronoun emphasises Rochster’s dehumanised view of Bertha

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Quote where Rochester blazonly mimics Shakespeare

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‘Is this my mustard seed? This little sunny-faced girl with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin-smooth hazel hair, and the radiant hazel eyes?’

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‘Is this my mustard seed? This little sunny-faced girl with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin-smooth hazel hair, and the radiant hazel eyes?’
Analyse.

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Blazon - Bronte uses to ridicule patriarchal masculine ‘love’. Reference to Shakespeare ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ who used blazon a lot to ridicule characters’ artificial love. Rochester not yet broken from social boundaries and thus cannot place himself on equal, spiritual level with Jane

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The one where Rochester is emasculated, and society treats marriage as a material currency

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‘I must be provided for by a wealthy marriage’

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The charade that held a deeper meaning

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‘Bridewell’

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‘Bridewell’
Analyse.

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  1. Marriage to Blanche Ingram would be a charade - Vic soc business transaction.
  2. Connotations of a mental asylum suggest ludicrousy of vic soc, also restraints on inhabitants
  3. Separate morphemes provide positive meaning - how Rochester and Blanche should not be united
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The one where Clanche represents illusion of love found in Victorian marriage

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‘She was very showy, but she was not genuine’

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‘She was very showy, but she was not genuine’
Analyse.

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Blanche is representitive of the artificial love found in Victorian marriages - all about surface e.g. outward beauty, accomplishments

BUT not true, so not love or beauty according to aesthetic tradition

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The one where Jane is revolutionary for her era when she talks about being the same as Rochester

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“I am not talkng to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities… it is my spirit that addresses your spirit… equal — as we are!”

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“I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities… it is my spirit that addresses your spirit… equal — as we are!”

Analyse.

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Message of romanticism - ‘custom’ and ‘conventialities’ are the artifice of Victorian society, but the ‘spirit’ is the important thing, and it is ‘equal’ to Rochester’s, suggesting that they are soul mates

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The one where Rochester compares Bertha to Blanche

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‘I found her a fine woman in the style of Blanche Ingram: tall, dark, and majestic.’

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Unpick the quote ‘I found her a fine woman in the style of Blanche Ingram: tall, dark, and majestic.’

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These parallels to Blanche emphasies the broken model of love presented by Victorian Society:

This superficial beauty hides Rochester’s oncoming fall to disgrace

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The one where Rochester mentions race

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‘Her family wished to secure me because I was of a good race’

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Unpack the quote ‘Her family wished to secure me because I was of a good race’

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Highlights the unromantic nature of Victorian marriage:

‘secure’ - Clinical, like a business transaction, no mention of love

‘good race’ - like dog breeding, unnatural. Also highights racism within Victorian society/ white supremacy

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The one where Bertha is objectified through marriage ritual

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‘They showed her to me in parties, splendidly dressed’

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Unpack the quote ‘They showed her to me in parties, splendidly dressed’

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Emphasises wrongess of match through superficial looks and lack of equality

‘Showed’ - from a feminist perspective Bertha is passive, unequal, value comes from the male gaze

‘Splendidly dressed’ - objectified, surface level beauty

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The one where love is in the heart

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Jane’s ‘heart… suddenly… stood still to an inexpressible feeling that thrilled it through’

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Unpack the quote where Jane’s ‘heart… suddenly… stood still to an inexpressible feeling that thrilled it through’

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Ode to romanticism

‘heart’ - romantic, as centre of love

‘inexpressible feeling’ - also romantic as emphasis on emotion, numinous experience - soul mates

Repetition of ‘thr’ - breathlessness, emphasises the physical impact of the spiritual, highlights its power and thus the significance of romanticism

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The one where Rochester’s soul cries out to Jane

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‘Jane! Jane! Jane! - nothing more’

23
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Unpack the quote ‘Jane! Jane! Jane! - nothing more’

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Repeated exclamative - emphasises significance, Rochester’s inner need for Jane

‘nothing more’ - simple verbal phrase further illustrates how significant Jane is to Rochester, romantic idea of soul mates, all he needs is her as opposed to Victorian society’s idea of needing money etc.

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The one where Jane and Rochester are like the horse-chestnut tree and a vine or smthing

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‘I was entwined and gathered to him’

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Unpack the quote ‘I was entwined and gathered to him’

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‘entwined’ - like a vine, suggests cohesion is their natural state, anaphoric reference to horse-chestnut tree, Jane has brought life back to Rochester, by extension how true love can revitalise life

(although also dsiturbing implication of Jane as some form of parasite)

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The one where Jane is an appendage

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‘I was then his vision, as I am still his right hand’

27
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Unpack the quote ‘I was then his vision, as I am still his right hand’

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Declarative metaphor - suggests that they have actually become one person, highlights the depth of their love, romanticism

However feminist viewpoint - a) unhealthy to be so co-dependent (or even parasitic) b) also Jane is only an appendaeg, whereas Rocheseter is main body, suggesting she is still unequal (however she also has more control of him so perhaps not)

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The one where light has returned to the world of Rochester

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‘The sky is no longer blank to him - the earth no longer a void’

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Unpack the quote ‘The sky is no longer blank to him - the earth no longer a void’

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The healing power of love - lets Rochester experience life/nature, so very significant, celebration of romanticism

According to Stevie Davis this is also a reference to Milton’s Paradise Lost - could suggest salvation?

30
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The one where Blanche and Rochester’s relationship is a facade on many levels

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‘It was easy to recognise the pantomime of a marriage’

31
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Unpack the quote ‘it was easy to recognise the pantomime of a marriage’

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With Rochester and Blanche together there is only superficial love

Fact that this is a ‘charade’ - connotes falsehood

‘pantomime’ - connotes farce and melodrama, denotes that is is only an act

‘easy to recognise’ - emphasises ridiculousness of the artifice, also how Jane deals in truth, suggesting that she is a romantic individual

32
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The one where Rochester beats around the bush and then dramatically proposes

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‘My bride is here… my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?’

33
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Unpack the quote ‘My bride is here… my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?’

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Emphasises how love is about equality, also romanticism as Rochester sees himself and Jane as one and the same

Use of triplet to describe Jane - adds to the enormity of Rochester’s estimation of Jane

Direct address - gives power over to Jane, mirrors sentiment of equality

Modal auxiliary verb ‘will’ to form interrogative - power to Jane

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The one where Jane is a bird, and a net does seem to ensnare her

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‘A jay in borrowed plumes… tricked out in stage stappings’

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Unpack the quote ‘A jay in borrowed plumes… tricked out in stage stappings’

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‘jay’ - Jane’s feeling of entrappment, anaphoric refecrence to bird and net quote earlier, this engagement is not on grounds of equality, foreshadows disaster

‘borrowed’ - cataphoric reference/ foreshadows Bertha’s existence and breaking of the veil

‘stage’ - marriage is in superficial nature of Victorian society, can’t last…

36
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The one where St John tries to boss around the Independent Woman through a proposal

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‘Our union must be sealed and consecrated by marriage’

37
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‘Our union must be sealed and consecrated by marriage’

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Modal verb ‘must’ in declarative - denies Jane choice, direct contrast to Rochester’s proposal

Emphasises need for equality in loving relationships

38
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The famous one

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‘Reader, I married him.’

39
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Unpack the quote ‘Reader, I married him.’

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Jane is the subject of the sentence - indicates end of bildungsroman, she faces life on her own terms as an heiress

Simple sentence - simplicity of love when romantic, definitive through declarative - inevitability, emphasises power of love

HAPPY ENDING

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