Themes And Motifs Flashcards
Find a quotes for the theme of justice
“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust… They would never alter, but would grow worse and worse”
Find a quote for the theme freedom and liberty
“Tired of the routine of 8 years in an afternoon, for Liberty I gasped, for Liberty I uttered a prayer”
Find a quote for the theme of religion
“I could not, in those days, see God for his creature: of whom I had made an idol”
Find 2 quotes for the theme of social class
“Poverty looks grim to grown people… To me, poverty was synonymous with degradation”
“My mission is to mortify these girls”
Find 4 quotes for the theme of isolation
“There was a mystery at Thornfield, and from that participation I was purposely excluded”
“Avoid her company, exclude her from your sports and shut her out from your converse”
“I longed for a power of vision that might overpass the limit”
“I cannot bear to be solitary and hated”
Find two quotes for the theme
Sexism and the Victorian women
“Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot”
“Women feel just as men feel… They suffer from too rigid a restraint… It is narrow minded of their more privileged fellow creatures to say they ought to confine themselves to knitting stockings and making puddings”
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Birds
“I am no bird, no net ensnares me”
“I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage… were but free, it would soar cloud high”
Find 3 quotes for the theme
Forgiveness
“Remorse the poison of existence”
“You have my full and free forgiveness “
“Reader, I forgive him at that moment and on the spot”
Find 4 quotes for the theme of madness
“Half an hours silence and reflection had
shown me the madness of my conduct”
“Bad animal”
“When fate wronged me, I had not the wisdom to remain cool: I turned desperate, then I degenerated”
“She bit me… She sucked the blood: she said she’d drain my heart”
Find two quite for the theme
Fire and ice
“I am cold, no fever infects me”
St John
“Whereas I am hot, and fire dissolved ice”
Jane
