Bronte's Background
The novel was published in this year.
What is 1847?
Jane found her metaphorical...and literal...family here.
What is Moor House?
He caught Jane with his "full falcoln-eye flashing."
Who is Rochester?
This symbolizes the groups exploited & feared by the British Empire...including Jane!
Who is Bertha Mason?
This character was "molded like a Dian" with skin as "dark as a Spaniard" and a "laugh [that] was satirical."
Who is Blanche Ingram?
Its 1st publication was under this pseudonymn of Bronte.
Who/what is Currer Bell?
This structure is three stories high and of considerable size, befitting the house of a gentleman.
His Greek face sported large blue eyes with thick brown lashes.
Who is St. John Rivers?
Representing passion, destruction, and even comfort, this symbol changes throughout the novel.
What is fire?
This character withheld affection & taunted his/her love interest to spark jealousy.
Who is Jane?
Like her famous titular character, Charlotte Bronte also worked in this capacity in addition to writing.
What is she was a governess?
An engraved stone tablet bore its name over its entrance.
What is Lowood Institution?
"It grovelled, on all fours, it snatched and growled..."
Who is Bertha Mason?
Through these Jane represents her deepest feelings.
What are pictures and portraits?
Jane experienced this emotion upon the conclusion of the first sermon she heard St. John Rivers give.
What is "inexpressible sadness"?
Jane grew up in this region of England, whose countryside inspired the settings of her novel.
What is Yorkshire?
"I was a discord in [this place]; I was like nobody there."
What is Gateshead Hall?
This character admonishes, "Jane, you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement; the sovereign hand that created your frame has provided you with other resources..."
Who is Helen Burns?
This initially symbolizes the inevitable rift in the relationship of Rochester and Jane, and later represents Rochester himself.
The lightning struck horse chestnut tree.
"Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image." This is that "something"...
What is Jane's childhood doll?
Jane's father found this to be his avocation.
What is the ministry?
"This was a building of considerable antiquity, moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood" and used to accommodate sportsmen during shooting season.
What is Ferndean Manor?
These "feeble fingers shrank from Jane's touch."
Who is Mrs. Reed?
By some scholars' accounts, this represents Jane being forced back into the womb, to be "reborn" with a new and refined attitude.
What is the red room?
This many years had passed between Mrs. Reed receiving the letter and her sharing it with Jane.
What is 3?
Born in Kensington in 1819, this figure did not become widely known until 1837.
Who was Queen Victoria?
This is where John Eyre called home for most of his adult life.
What is Madeira? For candy, tell me what country this is a part of.
This character was reported to have offered bad business advice which financially ruined a well-reputed family.
Who is John Eyre?
The motif of birds works to reveal this larger symbolism.
What is confinement? Imprisonment? Freedom/Independence?
This character assumes "a look of complete indifference to his/her own external appearance" and held a "haughty reliance on the power of his/her other qualities."