Lowood

Question 1

‘great grey hills heaved up round the horizon’ chapter 5

Answer 1

setting implies Lowood is stricter than Gateshead - enclosure of being trapped

Question 2

‘numbed fingers’ chapter 5

Answer 2

cold weather is a symbol that the children are never shown love or care. cf to Gateshead

Question 3

‘the indefatigable bell’ chapter 5

Answer 3

personification shows they have no choices alternatively it implies how relentless the day is

Question 4

‘the garden was a wide enclosure, surrounded with walls so high as to exclude every glimpse of prospect’ chapter 5

Answer 4

link to red room, Brocklehurst sees sexuality as a threat. Victorians believed that through gardening children themselves might become cultivated

Question 5

“are you happy here?” chapter 5

Answer 5

not relevant to the conversation with Helen Burns. Jane always needs reassurance and Helen replied “you ask rather too many questions”

Question 6

‘the water in the pitchers was frozen’ chapter 6

Answer 6

ice - deliberate metaphor for lack of escape

Question 7

Miss Scatcherd

Answer 7

link to scratching which implies she is a character that inflicts pain on others

Question 8

“the Bible bids us return good for evil” chapter 6

Answer 8

Helen is utterly stoic and she is giving Jane theological advice - they have antithetical beliefs ‘we should strike back again’

Question 9

‘Helen heard me patiently… I asked impatiently’ chapter 6

Answer 9

contrast of personality

Question 10

Mr Brocklehurst

Answer 10

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

Question 11

‘what an extraordinary sensation that ray sent through me!’ chapter 7

Answer 11

exclamatory - Jane has an epiphany

Question 12

Helen Burns

Answer 12

educates Jane about human nature. anticipates death - has consumption . stoic “death is so certain an entrance to happiness”. eloquence and warmth

Question 13

Miss Temple

Answer 13

she is a huge comfort to Jane - motherly

Question 14

‘murmur of pleasure ran through the ranks of my companions’ chapter 8

Answer 14

Jane is clear from allegations against her and the murmur of pleasure is a metaphor that puts Mr Brocklehurst into an even darker light

Question 15

contrast between Gateshead and Lowood

Answer 15

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

Question 16

coming of spring

Answer 16

motif suggestive of Jane’s development and growth

Question 17

‘classes were broken up, rules relaxed’ chapter 9

Answer 17

irony - freedom

Question 18

‘disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor’ chapter 9

Answer 18

demonstrating a gothic response

Question 19

‘true, reader’ chapter 9

Answer 19

first time she addresses the reader. talking about Helen Burns and considering life and death in reality not in abstract

Question 20

‘I saw her face, pale, wasted but quite composed’ chapter 9

Answer 20

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

Question 21

“I’ll stay with you, dear Helen” chapter 9

Answer 21

dear in italics - passion of love

Question 22

‘I was asleep, and Helen was - dead’ chapter 9

Answer 22

Helen and Jane alter egos - Helen has to die for Jane to live - Jane takes part of Helen with her

Question 23

‘how I longed to follow it farther’ chapter 10

Answer 23

Jane talking about nature but metaphorically thinking about her life - she is courageous and seeks life

Question 24

‘I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer’ chapter 10

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Thornfield

Answer 25

job offer. etymology of Thornfield - spikes alternatively an escape for freedom

Question 26

Bessie

Answer 26

source of information - sometimes warm not motherly. reveals how Jane has grown through her paintings and that she has learnt French

Question 27

‘Mr Eyre came to Gateshead and wanted to see you’

Answer 27

foreshadows Jane’s inheritance