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Moor House Flashcards

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‘I am absolutely destitute’ chapter 28

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present tense - moment when Jane is vulnerable

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‘I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature: I will seek her breast and ask repose’ chapter 28

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personifies nature - amplifies her sense of total isolation

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‘it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence’ chapter 28

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typically Romantic idea - inspired by nature. Pantheistic response

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‘next day, Want come to me pale and bare’ chapter 28

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personifying ‘want’ as she doesn’t have anything

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‘a group of more interest appeared near the hearth, sitting still amidst the rosy peaces and warmth suffusing it’ chapter 28

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the Rivers. similar to intro of Mrs Fairfax. warmth of hearth - metaphorical for welcome of Jane

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‘I made an effort to compel it to remain there dumb and still’ chapter 28

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she feels sad. acting like Helen repressing feelings stoic

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“you have done your duty in excluding, not let me do mine in admitting her’ chapter 28

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st John letting Jane into the house due to religious reasons - God vocation

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“my name is Jane Elliott” chapter 28

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appearance vs reality. metaphor for objection or denying past or new start

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chapter 29

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Jane recovers at the Rivers - the Rivers recognise Jane is well educated

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“I am no beggar; any more than yourself or your young ladies” chapter 29

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Jane rebukes Hannah. independence link to “I am no bird” in Thornfield

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‘it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin… there was an unceremonious directness, a searching, decided steadfastness in his gaze’ chapter 29

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St John is antithesis of Rochester - Rochester is attractive. Bronte is subverting our expectations. we see St John’s coldness

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‘so many pure and sweet sources of pleasure… thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion; we coincided, in short, perfectly’ chapter 30

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Jane revels in beauty - sublime - Romantic heroine. metaphor for soul’s growth - balance and harmony

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‘he yet did not appear to enjoy that mental serenity, that inward content, which should be the reward of every sincere Christian and practical philanthropist’ chapter 30

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st John seems cold and unyielding

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‘there was more gloom than pleasure…compressed, condensed, controlled…stern allusions to Calvinistic doctrines’ chapter 30

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Bronte’s 3rd presentation of religion - ambition, glory, self importance. Calvin was a protestant who believed in labour without rest for God - no joy in it - St John - foreshadows Jane’s fate

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“our uncle John is dead” chapter 30

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loose ends tied up

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chapter 31

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Jane starts to teach

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‘scorned and crushed the insane promptings of a frenzied moment’ chapter 31

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antithesis to Bertha ‘insane’ and ‘frenzied’

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‘it is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature’ chapter 31

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anti-Romantic idea so him and Jane bad match - resolute calvinistic tendencies

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Rosamund Oliver

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St John repressed passion for God - he has had an epiphany and religion as sacrifice

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‘as if a thunderbolt had split a cloud over his head’ chapter 31

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metaphorical as it shows how immensely important her voice is to St John -reflex response or shows separation of Jane and Rochester - St John and Rosamund separate too

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‘his chest heaved once… had expanded.. and made a vigorous bound for the attainment of liberty.. St John spoke almost like an automaton’ chapter 31

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Jane recognises that St John is in love with miss Oliver. metaphorical - controlling his own heart. St John’s internal struggle to quell any feelings - self sacrifice

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chapter 32

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Jane settles into school and draws Miss Oliver

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“I used to rush into strange dreams at night… I still again and again met Mr Rochester” chapter 32

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dreams - motif for the truth of her desires

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“that heart is already laid on a sacred altar” chapter 32

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Bronte personifies St John’s heart - hopes he would die for God

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‘he continue to gaze at the picture: the longer he looked, the firmer he held it, the more he seemed to covet it’ chapter 32

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picture of Rosamund Oliver. covet - one of Ten Commandments - deliberate use - feels his desire is sinful “I scorn the weakness”

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“my foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven?” chapter 32

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sees himself as a would be martyr. hypocritical - mansion - afterlife

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chapter 33

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story of Jane’s family and the inheritance

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“Mr Eyre of Madeira, is dead; that he has left you all his property, and that you are now rich” chapter 33

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importance that inheritance happens now - single. longed for freedom. when Rochester loses Thornfield to fire, means their wealth is relatively equal

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‘it seems I had found a brother… one I could love; and two sisters whose qualities…had inspired me with genuine affection and admiration…I now clapped my hands in sudden joy’ chapter 33

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stable family - solidifies sense of identity. shares money - generous character

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‘still he would never rest, nor approve of others resting round him’ chapter 34

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St John cold and unlikeable - Calvinistic, protestant work ethic - need to passionless like him

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chapter 34

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Rosamund’s engagement with Mr Granby. St John invited Jane to india

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“I want you to give up German and learn Hindustani” chapter 34

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St John is preparing Jane for the sacrificial life of a missionary’s wife

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‘his was an experiment kiss’ chapter 34

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cold

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‘perhaps you think I had forgotten Mr Rochester, reader, amidst these changes of place and fortune. Not for a moment’ chapter 34

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eternity amplified. time passing - no news of Rochester so she writes to Mrs Fairfax. juxtaposition shows how ill suited St John and Jane are

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“God and nature intended you for a missionary’s wife…a missionary’s wife you must - shall be…I claim you - not for my pleasure but for my Sovereign’s service” chapter 34

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St John invites Jane to India - proposal 1 - like a job offer - uses a lot of imperatives to show egoistical nature of St John with god - patriarchy -sinister

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‘he will never love me; but he shall approve me’ chapter 34

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marriage to St John would kill her metaphorically- take the life out of her - sex without passion - duty not love

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“you and I had better not marry”… we did not love each other as man and wife should’ chapter 34

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Jane has been loved - Rochester

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‘forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low… he answered icily’ chapter 34

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explicit contrast of their characters - ice and fire

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‘reader, do you know… what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions?… breaking up of the frozen sea in their displeasure?’ chapter 35

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keen for Rochester. extended metaphor to show St John is cold - images of nature

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number of proposals St John makes

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3 proposals

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‘He pressed his hand firmer on my head’ chapter 35

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repression. St John physically dominating Jane. metaphor for what her marriage would be like

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“Jane! Jane! Jane!” chapter 35

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Rochester’s voice - manifestation of God’s will

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‘my time… my power’ chapter 35

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‘my’ italicised shows sense of Jane grasping firmly at her own destiny

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‘I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin’ chapter 36

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Jane goes back to Thornfield

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“at dead of night… that was the hour of fatality at Thornfield” chapter 36

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gothic trope - lunar - Bertha lunatic

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“the mad lady, who was as cunning as a witch…she set fire…and kindled the bed…Rochester went back to get his mad wife out… she yelled and gave a sprang, and the next moment she lay smashed on the pavement’ chapter 36

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Bertha sets fire to beds - motivated by sexual jealousy. Rochester - Hero - tries to save Bertha - man of unquestionable honour. Bertha’s death sets Rochester free

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“Mrs Rochester had flung herself from the battlements” chapter 36

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self sacrifice - gothic

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