Jane Eyre

• Picture of passion


  Jane
• With her darlings about her [...] perfectly happy.


  Mrs Reed and her family
• Me dispensed from joining the group.

  Jane separated from the Reed family.
• My heart beat thick, my head grew hot;... I was oppressed, suffocated: endurance broke down; I uttered a wild, involuntary cry"


  Red room - jane
• - a black pillar!... standing erect on the rug: the grim face at the top like a carved mas,


  Mr. Brocklehurst
• You are deceitful


  To mrs Reed
• I desired liberty, for liberty I gasped; for Liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing


  Jane - leaving Lowood
• A very chill and vault-like air pervaded the stairs and gallery; suggesting a cheerless idea of space and solitude

  Thornfield
• Women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restating, too absurd a stagnation, precisely as men would


  Jane - equality
• This was a demonic laugh - low, suppressed, and deep -

  Bertha's laugh
• I was tossed in a buoyant but unique sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy...- a sense would resist delirium; judgement would warn passion"


  After burnt bed
• My pulse stopped: my heart stood still... that fearful shriek


  Berthas cry
• I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;... we stood at God's feet, equal.


  Proposal scene - Jane
• Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!


  Proposal scene - Jane
• Struck by lightning in the night, and half of it split away.


  Horse-chesnut Tree
• Try and keep Mr Rochester at a distance: distrusts yourself as well as him.


  Mrs Fairfax warning Jane about Rochester
• And then you won't know me, Sir: and I shall not be you're Jane Eyre any longer, but an ape in a harlequinn's jacket.


  Rochester Spoiling Jane
• He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for this creature: of whom I had made an Idol.


  Jane become infatuated with Rochester
• A discoloured face, a savage face, vampire, her lurid visage flamed over mine, insensible from terror.


  Description of Bertha when she tears the wedding veil.
• The maniac bellowed;... I recognized well that purple face - those bloated features.


  Bertha, when Jane sees her on her wedding day
• I wrestled with my own resolution;... Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat;... With that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.


  Jane leaves Thornfield - battles with passion and reason.
• I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless the more unsubstained I am, the more I will respect myself.


  Leaving Thornfield
• Some of the best people that have ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.


  Telling Hannah the servant not to judge
• Human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you.


  St John to Jane
• I felt degraded. I doubted I had taken a step which sank instead of raising me in the scale of social existence.


  Jane about being teacher
• If I offered my heart, I believe you would accept it. But that heart is already laid on a sacred altar: the fire is arranged around it.


  Jane's description of St Johns love and passion.
• I am cold: no fervour affects me. -St John

  Whereas I am hot, and fire dissolves ice. - Jane


  When Jane becomes rich - passionate conversation
• I scorn your idea of love


  Jane to St John
• "You are formed for labour not for love" "you shall be mine, I claim you."


  St John proposing, his desire for power over Jane.
• Forced to keep the fore of my nature continually low. to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital.


  Metaphor for Jane's suffering if she married St John
• If I were to marry you, you would kill me. You are killing me now.


  Jane about marrying St John.
• "Jane! Jane! Jane! [...] wait for me! Oh I will come! I flew to the door and looked into the passage. It was dark. I ran into the garden: it was void."


  Jane hears Rochester.