Lowood Flashcards
‘great grey hills heaved up round the horizon’ chapter 5
setting implies Lowood is stricter than Gateshead - enclosure of being trapped
‘numbed fingers’ chapter 5
cold weather is a symbol that the children are never shown love or care. cf to Gateshead
‘the indefatigable bell’ chapter 5
personification shows they have no choices alternatively it implies how relentless the day is
‘the garden was a wide enclosure, surrounded with walls so high as to exclude every glimpse of prospect’ chapter 5
link to red room, Brocklehurst sees sexuality as a threat. Victorians believed that through gardening children themselves might become cultivated
“are you happy here?” chapter 5
not relevant to the conversation with Helen Burns. Jane always needs reassurance and Helen replied “you ask rather too many questions”
‘the water in the pitchers was frozen’ chapter 6
ice - deliberate metaphor for lack of escape
Miss Scatcherd
link to scratching which implies she is a character that inflicts pain on others
“the Bible bids us return good for evil” chapter 6
Helen is utterly stoic and she is giving Jane theological advice - they have antithetical beliefs ‘we should strike back again’
‘Helen heard me patiently… I asked impatiently’ chapter 6
contrast of personality
Mr Brocklehurst
evangelical hypocrite - daughters treated entirely different but at Lowood “all these top knots must be cut off” - they have to conform to what he wants - hypocrisy of religion itself and charity school
‘what an extraordinary sensation that ray sent through me!’ chapter 7
exclamatory - Jane has an epiphany
Helen Burns
educates Jane about human nature. anticipates death - has consumption . stoic “death is so certain an entrance to happiness”. eloquence and warmth
Miss Temple
she is a huge comfort to Jane - motherly
‘murmur of pleasure ran through the ranks of my companions’ chapter 8
Jane is clear from allegations against her and the murmur of pleasure is a metaphor that puts Mr Brocklehurst into an even darker light
contrast between Gateshead and Lowood
Jane would not go back to Gateshead for ‘its privations and daily luxuries’ as for love from Helen and Miss Temple Lowood is more attractive
coming of spring
motif suggestive of Jane’s development and growth
‘classes were broken up, rules relaxed’ chapter 9
irony - freedom
‘disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor’ chapter 9
demonstrating a gothic response
‘true, reader’ chapter 9
first time she addresses the reader. talking about Helen Burns and considering life and death in reality not in abstract
‘I saw her face, pale, wasted but quite composed’ chapter 9
Helen is under a physical attack but ‘composed’ - home with God. she is content and accepting death. Helen talks of heaven as home - “my last home” - poignant
“I’ll stay with you, dear Helen” chapter 9
dear in italics - passion of love
‘I was asleep, and Helen was - dead’ chapter 9
Helen and Jane alter egos - Helen has to die for Jane to live - Jane takes part of Helen with her
‘how I longed to follow it farther’ chapter 10
Jane talking about nature but metaphorically thinking about her life - she is courageous and seeks life
‘I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer’ chapter 10
repetition of ‘liberty’ is important for the French Rev indicating through the sublime of ‘it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing’ that Jane is a Romantic heroine.seeking the new - inspired to create art of change at a time of change
Thornfield
job offer. etymology of Thornfield - spikes alternatively an escape for freedom
Bessie
source of information - sometimes warm not motherly. reveals how Jane has grown through her paintings and that she has learnt French
‘Mr Eyre came to Gateshead and wanted to see you’
foreshadows Jane’s inheritance
