Quotes by theme Flashcards
Illusion and reality: pre-Thornfield
Gateshead –
‘having drawn the red moreen curtain’
Mrs Reed –
‘her worst fault, a tendency to deceit’
‘I disliked you too fixedly and thoroughly ever to lend a hand in lifting you to prosperity’
Lowood -
Brocklehurst: ‘you must be on your guard against her; (…) this girl is – a liar!’
Miss Temple ‘carrying a light’ (symbolic of virtue and truth)
Illusion and reality: Jane and Rochester
‘Do you know Mr Rochester? (…) Can you tell me where he is?’
‘it was not my original intention to deceive, as I have deceived you’
‘you were no beauty as a child’/’I smiled at Bessie’s frank answer’ (foreshadows Jane telling Rochester he is not handsome)
Illusion and reality: marriage/Celine/Blanche
Rochester and Celine/Blanche –
‘I liked bonbons too in those days’
‘a carriage, cashmeres, diamonds, dentelles, etc’
‘a scent of musk and amber, than an odour of sanctity’
‘I bethought myself to open the window’
‘Mon ange’
‘their conversation eased me completely; frivolous, mercenary, heartless and senseless’/’neither of them possessed energy or wit’
Charades and marriage –
‘easy to recognise the pantomime of marriage’
Gypsy –
‘a web of mystification’
‘the fire scorches me’
Illusion and reality: Bertha
‘beast or human being, one could not, at first sight, tell’
‘on all fours’
‘clothed hyena’
‘rent (the veil) in two parts’
Religion: corrupt
Lowood –
‘half of [Lowood] seemed gray and old, the other half quite new’
‘long hour and a half of prayer and bible-reading’
‘ready to perish with cold’
‘encouraging them to evince fortitude under the temporary privation’
Brocklehurst: ‘do you know where the wicked go after death?’
B’s children and wife with ‘fine silk’ and ‘furs’
‘God will punish her’
Religion: St John
St John –
‘we must be married’
gives up his ‘elysium’
Religion: Helen/Ms Temple
Helen –
‘there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits’
‘I had not qualities or talents’
‘patient, unresentful, regarding it as a deserved punishment’
warns Jane ‘thinks too much of the love of human beings’
‘a hero, a martyr’
‘I live in calm, looking to the end’
Ms Temple –
‘we shall think you what you prove yourself to be’
‘on nectar and ambrosia’
Religion: Jane’s own
Jane’s own –
The moon: ‘it spoke to my spirit (…) ‘my daughter, flee temptation’’, Jane answers ‘I will’
Love and marriage: pre-Thornfield
Gateshead –
‘you think I have no feelings; and that I can live without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so’
Lowood –
Helen warns Jane ‘thinks too much of the love of human beings’
Love and marriage: Jane and Rochester
‘my bride is here (…) my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?’
‘a jay in borrowed plumes (…) tricked out in stage trappings’
‘Janette’
‘Reader, I married him’
‘I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom (…) it is my spirit that address your spirit’
‘Reason, and not feeling, is my guide’
‘Reason holds the reins’
‘flaming and flashing eyes’
‘I thought unaccountably of fairytales’
Love and marriage: Jane and St John
‘Our union must be sealed and consecrated by marriage’
‘freezing spell’
‘he will never love me; but he shall approve me’
St John gives up his ‘elysium’
Love and marriage: Rochester and Bertha
‘‘That,’ said Rochester, ‘is my wife’’
‘rent (the veil) in two parts’
‘she took (Jane’s) veil from its place (…) then threw it over her head’
‘mad, bad and embruted partner’
Love and marriage: Rochester and Blanche
during charades, ‘easy to recognise the pantomime of marriage’
‘I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps for political reasons (…) she could not charm him’
‘probably she loves him or, if not his person, at least his purse’
Home and family: Gateshead/Ms Temple/Moor House/Thornfield
Gateshead –
‘you think I have no feelings; and that I can live without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so’
Ms Temple –
‘from the day she left I was no longer the same; with her was gone every settled feeling, every association that had made Lowood in some degree a home to me’
‘my little girl’
Moor House –
‘Diana’ and ‘Mary’ names of the Greek deity and Christian mother
Thornfield –
‘I love Thornfield: - … because I have lived in it a full and delightful life… I have not been been trampled on. I have not been petrified. I have not been buried in inferior minds’
To leave it is ‘like looking on the necessity of death.’
Madness: Jane
‘picture of passion’
‘wild, involuntary cry’
‘frantic anguish and wild sobs’
Madness: Bertha
‘beast or human being, one could not, at first sight, tell’
‘on all fours’
‘clothed hyena’
‘mad, bad and embruted partner’
Freedom
Gateshead –
‘you wicked and cruel boy – you are a slave driver – you are like the Roman emperors!’
Thornfield –
‘What! You are my paid subordinate, are you?’
‘arraigned at my own bar’
‘leave Thornfield at once’
‘Janette’
‘a jay in borrowed plumes (…) tricked out in stage trappings’
Social class: Gateshead/Lowood
Gateshead –
‘you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen’s children like us’
‘you would have to go to the poorhouse… these words were not new to me’
‘you wicked and cruel boy – you are a slave driver – you are like the Roman emperors!’
‘under obligations’
Lowood –
B’s children and wife with ‘fine silk’ and ‘furs’
Social class: Thornfield
‘What! You are my paid subordinate, are you?’
‘Reader, I married him’
‘half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi’
Mrs Fairfax: ‘but you see they are only servants’/’I’m only a housekeeper’
Social class: St John
‘you shall take a walk, and with me’
‘I will not marry you’
Social class: Adele
‘a pond with beautiful birds in it, that I fed with crumbs’
‘in very bad taste that point was’
‘gave me pretty dresses and toys’
‘not been used to regular occupation’
Beauty: Georgiana/Blanche/St John
Georgiana –
‘seemed to (…) purchase indemnity for every fault’
Blanche –
‘delineate carefully the loveliest face you can imagine; paint it in your softest shades and sweetest hues, according to the description given by Mrs. Fairfax of Blanche Ingram’
St John –
‘Classical’
‘Athenian’
Beauty: Jane/Rochester/Bertha
Jane –
‘you were no beauty as a child’/’I smiled at Bessie’s frank answer’
Rochester –
‘broad and jetty eyebrows’
‘flaming and flashing eyes’
‘neither tall nor graceful’
Bertha – ‘figure’ ‘it was a discoloured face – it was a savage face’ ‘goblin’ ‘the foul German spectre – the Vampyre’
Substitute mothers: Reed/Bessie/Ms Temple/Moon/Diana
Reed –
‘impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in’
‘under obligations’
Bessie –
‘you’ve not quite forgotten me’
‘you were no beauty as a child’/’I smiled at Bessie’s frank answer’
‘each went her separate way’
Ms Temple –
‘from the day she left I was no longer the same; with her was gone every settled feeling, every association that had made Lowood in some degree a home to me’
Moon –
‘it spoke to my spirit (…) ‘my daughter, flee temptation’’, Jane answers ‘I will’
Diana –
‘it was my nature to feel pleasure in yielding to an authority supported like hers’
Gender: Equality
‘A woman feels as a man does’
(to St John) ‘I will not marry you’
‘Reader, I married him’
‘at least shake hands’ (after fire)
Gender: Jane and Rochester
‘Janette’
‘a man like me (…) quaint, inexperienced girl like you’
‘a jay in borrowed plumes (…) tricked out in stage trappings’
‘Reader, I married him’
‘my bride is here (…) my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?’
‘Jane, Jane, Jane’
‘at least shake hands’ (after fire)
Gender: Rochester
‘grimacing grimly’
‘he mastered it directly’
‘impatient yet formal tone’
‘I am used to say “do this” and it is done’
‘you have secured the shadow of your thought; no more’
Gender: Jane and St John
‘you shall take a walk, and with me’
‘I will not marry you’
Gender: Bertha
‘‘That,’ said Rochester, ‘is my wife’’
‘she took (Jane’s) veil from its place (…) then threw it over her head’
‘mad, bad and embruted partner’
‘witch, sorceress’
Violence and suffering: Gateshead
‘every nerve I feared him’
‘you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen’s children like us’
‘you would have to go to the poorhouse… these words were not new to me’
‘curtains with deep red damask’
‘the black frost reigned, unbroken by sun or breeze’
‘you wicked and cruel boy – you are a slave driver – you are like the Roman emperors!’
(towards Jane) ‘this violence is almost repulsive’
Violence and suffering: Lowood
‘it was bitter cold’
‘stifling my breath and constricting my throat’
Violence and suffering: Thornfield
‘my sole relief was to walk along the corridor… backwards and forwards’
‘stagnation’
‘too rigid a restraint’
‘the more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself’
‘arraigned at my own bar’
Fire and Ice
Gateshead –
‘curtains with deep red damask’
‘the black frost reigned, unbroken by sun or breeze’
‘it was bitter cold’
Rochester –
‘the fire scorches me’
‘flaming and flashing eyes’
Thornfield –
‘strong smell of burning’
St John –
‘freezing spell’
Isolation
Gateshead –
‘broken boat’
‘wreck just sinking’
Lowood –
‘coach instantly drove away’
Thornfield –
‘return to stagnation (…) ascend the darksome staircase (…) my own lonely little room’
‘the more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself’
Light
Lowood –
‘uncertain light of the fire’
Miss Temple ‘carrying a light’
‘a light shone through the keyhole’ (Helen’s death)
Thornfield -
‘A livid, vivid spark leapt out of a cloud’
Spiritual bildungsroman
Gateshead –
‘my tears had rise, just as in childhood; I ordered them back to their source’
‘children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings’
Lowood –
‘momentarily forgot my own sorrows to yield a vague concern’ for Helen
‘mindful of Helen’s warnings about the indulgence of resentment’
‘mind made its first earnest effort to comprehend’
