Studied by 8 people‘silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear’
Helen telling Jane to take suffering, abuse, religion.
‘I must resist those who punish me unjustly’
Jane telling Helen how she responds to maltreatment, abuse, fire and ice.
‘she dislikes your cast of character’
Helen justifying Mrs Reed’s abuse, abuse.
‘Rain, wind and darkness filled the air‘
Description of weather upon entering Lowood, pathetic fallacy.
‘burning glasses against my scorched skin'
Jane explaining her embarrasment, abuse, fire and ice.
'left in my natural element'
Jane saying her natural element is fire, fire and ice.
‘a kind fairy‘
Jane describing her thoughts as supernatural, supernatural.
‘pronounced sentence‘
Brocklehurst is the judge of Lowood, religion, inferiority.
‘seats of honour‘
Brocklehurst’s family given higher seats based on money/ relation, social class.
‘almost worthy of such a wife’
Jane saying Miss Temple is worthier than a man, gender roles.
‘I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer’
Jane wanting freedom, bird.
‘feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls‘
Brocklehurst explaining his treatment, abuse, religion.
‘Where is God? What is God?‘
Jane questioning God, religion.
‘do good to them that hate you‘
Helen’s version of Christianity, religion.
‘stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion.‘
Jane explaining Miss Temple’s role in her life, motherhood.
‘God bless you, my children‘
Miss Temple viewing her students as family, motherhood.
‘was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering‘
Jane aware of her suffering, abuse.
‘always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned‘
Jane spiralling about her suffering, abuse.
‘ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly‘
Description of weather in Gateshead, pathetic fallacy.
‘fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire‘
Jane’s anger becomes sadness, fire becomes ice, fire and ice, abuse.
‘one of the tiny phantoms‘
Jane compared to ignuus fatuus, supernatural.
‘preternatural voice to comfort me‘
Jane fearful of comfort, supernatural.
‘you are a dependent … you ought to beg‘
Jane insulted by John Reed, inferiority.
‘you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep.‘
Jane insulted by Abbot, a servant, inferiority.
‘not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste’
Jane’s fear of becoming poor, social class.
‘especially a naughty little girl‘
Brocklehurst’s sexism, gender roles.
‘the rushing of wings‘
Jane fearful of herself, bird.
‘I ought to forgive you‘
Jane forgiving Mrs Reed in the future, religion.
‘When thus gentle, Bessie seemed to me the best, prettiest, kindest’
Jane viewing Bessie as better, motherhood.
‘you would have a home here’
Jane told she does not have a home at Gateshead, abuse, family.
‘as well as her nature would permit her’
Jane saying that Mrs Reed cannot treat her well, abuse, family.
‘he seemed to devour me‘
Jane describing Rochester grabbing her, abuse, inferiority.
‘employed it as sort of lever to hoist our dead weights from the house‘
Blanche describing how she treated her governesses, abuse, inferiority.
‘You are cold…no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you‘
Rochester describing Jane while disguised as a gypsy, fire and ice.
‘the trunk, split down the centre…community of vitality was destroyed‘
Description of the tree split in half by lightening, fire and ice.
‘his eye was both spark and flint‘
Rochester after his bigamy is revealed, fire and ice.
‘the clothed hyena rose up, and stood tall on its hind-feet‘
Description of Bertha, animal comparison.
‘mon ange‘
Rochester describing Celine Varons in French, supernatural.
‘angel as my comforter‘
Rochester describing Jane like Celine, supernatural.
‘I will not be your English Celine Varons‘
Jane resisting Rochester’s gifts, inferiority.
‘Jewels for Jane Eyre‘
Rochester going against what Jane wants for gifts, inferiority.
‘any other English school-girl‘
Rochester highlighting his and Jane’s age difference, inferiority.
‘because I am poor, obsecure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!‘
Jane saying her social class doesn’t effect her feelings, inferiority.
‘sweet subdued vivacity‘
Jane’s description of Blanche and the other women at Rochester’s party, gender roles.
‘women feel just as men feel’
Jane saying women are equal to men, gender roles.
‘pantomine of a marriage‘
Blanche and Rochester’s relationship description, gender roles.
‘Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it - the savage beautiful creature‘
Rochester describing Jane, bird imagery, animal comparison.
‘whence the bracelet had been washed or torn‘
Jane’s first painting, gothic imagery, bird imagery.
‘it will atone - it will atone‘
Rochester after proposing to Jane, religion.
‘unheard-of combinations or circumstances demand unheard-of rules’
Rochester saying he should be able to decide his own morality, religion.
‘Believe in heaven. Hope to meet there again.’
Jane telling Rochester to trust in God, religion.
‘There was a heaven - a temporary heaven‘
Jane describing Rochester’s offer of bigamy, religion.
‘to nurse it and notice it as if it had been his own‘
Mrs Reed explaining her dislike of Jane, family.
‘My daughter, flee temptation‘
Jane’s dream of her mother, family.
‘Mrs Fairfax found you to train it‘
Rochester telling Jane about Mrs Fairfax and Adele, family.
‘The chill of Mrs Fairfax warnings‘
Mrs Fairfax cautioning Jane about Rochester, family.
‘count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him‘
Helen to Jane on her deathbed, religion.
‘I never saw a busier person…difficult to say what she did‘
Jane’s description of Eliza, family.
‘Spoiled temper, a very acrid spite…purchase indemnity for every fault‘
Jane’s description of Georgiana, family, abuse.
‘he ruined himself and half-ruined his family, and is supposed to have committed suicide‘
Jane’s description of John Reed to Rochester, abuse, religion, family.
‘large cat sat demurely at her feet…beau-ideal of domestic comfort‘
Jane’s description of Mrs Fairfax when she first enters Thornfield, family.
‘feeling but the sensation of cold when I let the fire go out‘
Rochester describing all he can feel now, fire and ice.
‘It is time some one undertook to rehumanise you‘
Jane when seeing Rochester again, animal comparison.
‘delirium of desire to behold my Jane again‘
Rochester describing his mental state without Jane, dependence, insanity.
‘avowal of his dependence‘
Jane describing Rochester’s current state, inferiority.
‘blind and a cripple‘
The inns host describing Rochester’s current state, can be seen as God’s punishment, religion.
‘I am an independent woman now‘
Jane telling Rochester of her new earned money, and dependence, social class, inferiority, sexism.
‘strong enough to accomplish the will of Heaven‘
Thought by Jane when she recieves a note from St John telling not to go to Rochester, religion.
‘Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus‘
St John in a letter to Jane on his death bed, religion.
‘So I sought after a school‘
Jane on what happened to Adele, family.
‘Never mind fine clothes and jewels, now‘
Rochester giving up on money and no longer comparing Jane to others, social class.
‘Diana and Mary Rivers are both married‘
Jane explaining the Mary and Diana’s fate, family, sexism.
‘God had tempered judgement with mercy‘
Rochester explaining how he recovered his sight and married Jane, religion.
‘recovered the sight of that one eye‘
Rochester’s reward for his repentance, religion.
‘massive pillars of mahogany’
Red room described with phallic imagery, sexism.
‘a blush of pink in it’
Red room described with yonic imagery - place of rebirth, sexism.
‘nothing in harmony with Mrs Reed or her children‘
Jane describing her relationship with the Reeds, family, abuse.
‘I took my revenge‘
Mrs Reed describing why she lied to Jane’s uncle, religion, abuse.
Reverend Calus-Wilson
Who Brocklehurst was based off.
Cowan Bridge
The school Bronte attended as a child, where her sister Maria also died.
Branwell
The name of Jane’s brother, who died in association with drugs and gambling. Who John Reed may be based on.
‘compel it to burn inwardly, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital‘
Jane when considering St John’s proposal, fire and ice.
‘these couarsely-clad little peasants are…as good as the scions of gentlest genealogy‘
Jane reminding herself that her students in the school are as good as anyone else, social class.
‘sole helpmeet I can influence efficiently in life, and retain absolutely until death‘
St John explaining why he wants a wife, inferiority, sexism, religion.
‘Rosamind a sufferer, a labourer, a female apostle?‘
St John discussing why he cannot marry Rosamond, religion.
‘It is not me you deny, but God
St John after proposing to Jane, religion, inferiority.
‘not the insignificant private individual…it is the missionary‘
St John saying a person is insignificant compared to God’s purpose, religion.
‘I never had a home…I must and will have them now‘
Jane demands once discovering she has cousins, social class, family
‘I am cold: no fervour infects me‘
Said by St John when attempting to not tell Jane they are cousins, family, fire and ice.
‘nature…did - no miracle - but her best’
Jane describing how she heard Rochester’s voice, supernatural.
‘does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah… begins to consider responsibilities‘
Jane when told of her new-found fortune, social class.
‘This was a blessing, bright, vivid, and exhilarating‘
Jane’s feelings after discovering she has cousins, religion, family, social class.
‘cushioned a black cat‘
Description upon seeing Diana and Mary, compare to Mrs Fairfax - her supporters, family.
‘Thought fitted thought; opinion fitted opinion‘
Jane describing her relationship with Diana and Mary, family.
‘Insupportable-unnatural-out of the question!‘
Diana’s response to St John’s proposal, showing she supports Jane - like Mrs Fairfax with Rochester, family.
‘nature intended you to be a missionary’s wife…formed for labour, not for love‘
St John during his proposal to Jane, religion.
‘a place in their unsophisticated hearts‘
Jane describing her relationship with her scolars, social class.
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