Quote Analysis
What does this quote symbolize: “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” (Brontë 293).
What is breaking free/flying away?
The main character who faces many hardships, such as an abusive family, a terribly poor school, and almost starving to death.
Who is Jane Eyre?
The mysterious person that started the fire in Mr. Rochester's room
Who is Bertha?
Jane Eyre (because of its publication date) is considered what type of novel?
What is Victorian?
The first person that introduced Jane to religion and how they did this.
(Theme: Religion)
What is Helen Burns and what is she introduced her to the New Testament which guides her in her future decisions and actions?
This quote shows Jane embracing what:
"I scarcely knew what school was; Bessie sometimes spoke of it as a place where young ladies...were expected to be exceedingly genteel and precise; John Reed hated his school, and abused his master: but John Reed’s tastes were no rule for mine, and if Bessie’s accounts of school-discipline (gathered from the young ladies of a family where she had lived before coming to Gateshead) were somewhat appalling, her details of certain accomplishments attained by these same ladies were, I thought, equally attractive. She boasted of beautiful paintings of landscapes and flowers by them executed; of songs they could sing and pieces they could play, of purses they could net, of French books they could translate; till my spirit was moved to emulation as I listened. Besides, school would be a complete change: it implied a long journey, an entire separation from Gateshead, an entrance into a new life." (Bronte 41).
What is Jane embracing the opportunity to go to school?
Jane’s wealthy love interest who has a shady past and many secrets.
Who is Rochester?
St. John’s job and where he traveled to near the end of the book.
What is a missionary and what is India?
What Romantic Novels emphasize.
What is the power of love and reason?
Jane Eyre wants to be educated, it’s a passion of hers. What are all the roles and jobs she takes on to develop her education?
(Theme: Education)
What is a student at Lowood, an instructor at Lowood, governess at Thornfield, and schoolmaster?
What does this quote show:
"I was a discord in Gateshead Hall; I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage. If they did not love me, in fact, as little did I love them. They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathize with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment. I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child—though equally dependent and friendless—Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained for me more of the cordiality of fellow-feeling; the servants would have been less prone to make me the scapegoat of the nursery." (Bronte 24)
What is Jane doesn't fit in with her surroundings?
(OR) What is we see Jane's sense of injustice and her inability to let unfairness wash over her?
Rochester’s secret wife who was locked in the attic and secretly tormenting the other characters.
Who is Bertha?
Who raises Jane Eyre and what happened to her parents?
Who is Mrs. Reed and what is her parents died of typhus?
How do feminist novels present women?
What is strong, memorable and instruments of social change?
In the Victorian Era, women have been compared to birds, being “weak” and “frail” and “brittle.” Knowing this, one can find that by men comparing the women they encounter to birds directly, they are acting similar to predators.
What do the birds symbolize based on the above?
What is birds portray/symbolize human behavior?
This quote shows what about Jane's early life/class:
"Bessie answered not; but ere long, addressing me, she said,— 'You ought to be aware, Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed: she keeps you: if she were to turn you off, you would have to go to the poor-house.'
I had nothing to say to these words: they were not new to me: my very first recollections of existence included hints of the same kind. This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear; very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible." (Bronte 18).
What is Jane’s early life includes constant reminders that she’s poor?
What is that she’s alone?
What is her aunt and cousins consider her lower-class than they are because she won’t inherit any money?
The evil tormentor of Jane’s childhood who is eventually forgiven by Jane when she is on her deathbed.
Who is Mrs. Reed?
Jane Eyre’s residences in chronological order.
What is Gateshead, Lowood, Thornfield, Moor House, and Ferndean?
Why did Charlotte Brontë use a pseudonym and what was it?
What is male authors were regarded more seriously and what is Currer?
Together as a class, we determined weather typically symbolized this:
What is how the outcome of upcoming events will turn out/foreshadowing?
This conversation between Jane Eyre and Helen Burns shows young Jane is convinced that:
"'If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.'
'No: I know I should think well of myself; but that is not enough: if others don’t love me, I would rather die than live—I cannot bear to be solitary and hated, Helen.'" (Bronte 128).
What is Jane’s convinced that she wouldn’t be able to stick to her morals if doing so meant that she was alone and friendless?
(IRONIC BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING SHE LEARNS BY THE END OF THE BOOK!!!)
Jane’s first best friend who taught her about religion who symbolizes the good in people.
Who is Helen Burns?
What was written on Helen Burns gravestone.
What is Resurgam?
Victorian novels often showed this type of everyday presentation.
What is Realistic?
What the red room symbolizes.
(Best answer) What is Jane being suppressed and locked up from freedom due to her gender and class?
(Other answer) What is both an emotional and physical prison?