Theme Flashcards
Gothic imagery (Red Room)
“I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp”- Jane in the Red Room looking in the mirror.
Gothic imagery (Thornfield)
“the shadows darken on the wrought, antique tapestry round me, and grow black under the hangings of the vast old bed” - attack on Mr mason.
Equality/Justice/Quest for love (Gateshead)
“You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness, but I cannot live so, and you have no pity”- Jane to Mrs Reed in Chapter 4
Equality/Justice/Quest for love (Thornfield)
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!”- Jane to Mr Rochester in Chapter 23
Passion (Gateshead)
“Like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go to all lengths.”- Chapter 2 (Jane is locked in the Red Room)
Independence (Thornfield)
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you”- Chapter 23
Isolation/isolation (Thornfield)
During the party at Thornfield Jane is isolated and they call governesses “detestable” and “all incubi” (demon imagery) and she is sat in the “window curtain”
Isolation (Lowood)
“an interloper, an alien, not a member of the true flock”- Mr Brocklehurst says this about Jane.
Isolation/ Social class (Gateshead)
“Humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John and Georgiana Reed.”- Chapter 1
Social Class (Thornfield)
“I noticed her; I am a judge of physiognomy, and in hers I see all the faults of her class.”- Dowager Lady Ingram in Chapter17
Romance
“The nightingale’s song was then the only voice of the hour.”- Chapter 23 (Mr Rochester admits his feelings)
Romance (Jane gets to know Mr Rochester)
“the large fire was all red a clear”…….”There was a smile on his lips, and his eyes sparkled.”
Women’s place in society
“It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior.”
Marriage market
“he would give the latter a fortune of thirty thousand pounds: that sufficed.”- Bertha’s fortune from her father
Independence/Identity
“I must part with you for my whole life: I must begin a new existence among strange faces and strange scenes.”- Chapter 27
Fire in Mr Rochester’s room
“In the midst of the blaze and vapour, Mr Rochester lay stretched motionless, in deep sleep.”
Morality and rejection of love
“I do love you ….more than ever: but I must not show or indulge in that feeling.”-Chapter 27
Femininity
women described as “lively as larks”
Expectations of women
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally.”-Chapter 12
Mr Mason attack by Bertha
“the anon of a carrion- seeking bird of prey” -Chapter 20
Passion (Thornfield)
“it is my spirit that addresses your spirit.”
Women as objects
“Do you think I am an automaton?- a machine without feelings?
