Setting 1
When "Something passed (Jane), all dressed in white and vanished" in the red room of Gateshead hall, what is this vision a manifestation of?
What is a ghost and figment of Jane's stressed mind
How does Jane's relationship with the Reed family, whom she lived with for many years at Gateshead, differ from her relationships further in her life?
What prevented Jane and Rochester's marriage?
What is his marriage to Bertha.
Why does St. John refuse to declare his love for Rosamond?
What is she would not make an adequate missionary's wife.
How did St.John's rejection of Rosamond influence Jane's perception of her own relationship with Rochester?
What is her realization that she can not dismiss the emotions she has within or she will never truly be content and happy
How does Miss Temple at the Lowood School encourage Jane's passion for learning?
What is the nurturing environment she provides strengthens Jane's intellectual ability through kindness and encouragement to yearn for knowledge.
How does Jane's time at Lowood suppress her emotion and passion? " I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped"
What is her yearning for freedom but suppression of this dream while under the harsh Lowood rule
How is Rochester impulsively passionate throughout the novel and does this ever subdue in him?
What is his past experience with many women including Adele's mom, and his impulsiveness to jump into a marriage with Jane while legally being married to Bertha already.His impulsive passion leads to deception but he learns to be less impulsive as he loses Jane.
What does St. John say about Jane being "...formed for _____, not for love"?
What is labor
“All my heart is yours, sir; it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”- Does Jane’s love for Rochester cause her to lose independence in the end of the novel?
In the end, no, because she now had the money and "power" in the relationship
What building does Jane describe as “a building of considerable antiquity, moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood”?
What is Ferndean Manor
"I heard a crash...I saw Rochester's mansion in ruins" How does Jane's dream of Thornfields destruction foreshadow what is to come?
What is the actual destruction of Thornfield with the fire but also Jane's internal turmoil of the marriage she is about to create and the eventually separation of the couple.
When Rochester explains "You are my sympathy - my better self - my good angel" to Jane, how can we depict the difference in his feelings for his two women?
What is his physical attraction vs emotional connection. His marriage to Bertha was based on deception and uncontrolled feelings while Jane is a balanced passion for Rochester.
How do St.John and Jane view marital needs differently?
What is St.John's need for purpose and a godly missionary and Jane's need for freedom and passion
How does Jane's experience in the red room reveal about her childhood?
What is her entrapment by the circumstances she faced
How does Bronte include supernatural events to foreshadow what is to come at Thornfield?
What are the events such as dreams, burning of the bed, and the noises foreshadow the haunting presence of Bertha Mason, whom Jane has yet to learn of.
How do Jane's "rush into strange dreams at night" during her stay at Moor house reflect her inner thought?
What is her internal conflict between moral duty and her passionate desires to do otherwise
"What it was whether beast or human being, one could not at first sight, tell"
How does the theme of supernatural manifest in Mr.Rochester's relationship with Bertha?
What is Bertha's supernatural presence at Thornfield and her symbolization of a controlling and haunting nature in Rochester's life.
How does St.John suppress his personal desires and emotions to fulfill his religious duty?
"Reason, and not feeling, is my guide"
What is his rejection of things that make him feel passion such as Rosamond Oliver. St.John sticks to his strict duty instead of his own happiness
What is the significance of Jane's recurring dreams of children?
What is the dreams are normally followed by a family death
How does the mysterious fire in Rochester's bedroom of Thornfield Hall contribute to the tone?
What is supernatural elements exemplify the tone and create suspense of the unknown act of revenge
While at Lowood, how does Helen Burns death contribute to the novels spirituality?
What is the death being portrayed as a non fearful end but as a peaceful transition to a higher existence.
How does the supernatural element of Rochester's call to Jane reinforce their long and destined love?
"Film, faithful, and devoted; full of energy, and zeal, and truth" How does St.John's dreamlike state near the end of the novel suggest about his fate?
What is his missionary work feeling God like and as if he is already with God not still on Earth
How does Jane's passion for Rochester differ from that towards St.John?